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More than three years ago Sun developed its breakthrough CoolThreads chip multithreading (CMT) technology. And in October last year came the latest evolution, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440, ‘Batoka’.
For businesses wanting to compete in the current market they need an IT infrastructure that can quickly scale, is cost effective and is reliable.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 is the world’s first quad-socket, general-purpose server based on the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor. It delivers massive throughput of up to 256 compute threads and 512 GB of memory in just 4RU of space.
Whether your business is looking for a system to support mission-critical, back-office applications such as large scale ERP and CRM systems or provide Web 2.0 services, the T5440 provides the answer.
It is ideal for back-office database processing, as an Internet platform and any application requiring multiple simultaneous access without performance compromise.
The server enables businesses to do the holy grail, more with less:
- Eco efficiency - reduces power and cooling costs, conserves data centre space, and increases server utilisation through the use of the CMT architecture and its small form factor
- Cost effectiveness – through the use of Sun’s proven, open source, CMT architecture
- Scalability and reliability of a traditional midrange system
- Integrated, flexible, open source virtualisation technology included at no cost
Unrivalled performance
The T5440 server provides up to 4x higher performance per watt, and costs as little as one-fourth of competitive servers.
On its introduction to the market, the T5440 server set seven world records on industry standard benchmarks. This includes industry-best performance spanning the enterprise from CRM to ERP to Java applications.
In addition, the T5440 is ideal for virtualisation and consolidation with open source, no-cost virtualisation technology built in.
Using Solaris Containers technology in the Solaris 10 Operating System and Logical Domains (LDoms) you can consolidate dozens of applications into a single T5440 system.
The integrated virtualisation technology enables improved server capacity, utilisation and infrastructure agility while reducing energy, space and cooling requirements.
Zero cost security
For the first time, zero cost security is a reality – fast and free. The T5440 server supports ten industry standard NSA-approved security ciphers available via the on-chip cryptographic accelerators.
As the T5440 is based on the first true ‘system on a chip’, the UltraSPARC T2 has memory I/O and network integrated directly onto the processor silicon.
The T5440 server combined with Solaris Containers enables users to safely partition web server instances and achieve virtualisation. This helps reduce management complexity and potential security concerns.
Proven technology
The T5440 joins the 5000 family, proven servers that have delivered multiple benefits to customers including the US Air Force, Vonage and Digital Sense in Australia.
The servers are so reliable that Digital Sense decided to build its Data Centre City based on Sun’s CMT and x86 servers.
In choosing a vendor to supply the technology, Michael Tran, CEO of Digital Sense, said they were, “looking for a vendor that had an active approach to energy-efficiency, a focus on innovation and research and development and could provide an end-to-end solution.”
He says, “we also believe in practising what we preach when it comes to high density, energy efficiency and virtualisation. Simply put, Sun Microsystems was able to help us realise these goals for our own internal computing needs, saving us money and the environment; it’s a win – win solution.”
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