Sun & Fujitsu Unveil Next-Gen SPARC Servers

TOKYO and SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) and Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) today announced an enhanced line of SPARC(R) Enterprise servers M4000, M5000, M8000 and M9000 – that delivers a highly scalable, enterprise-class virtualization and consolidation platform with up to 80 percent better performance on commercial applications and 2x better performance on HPC workloads and using 44 percent less energy per core. Based on the quad-core SPARC64(TM) VII processor and the Solaris(TM) Operating System (OS), the new SPARC Enterprise servers are ideal platforms for high-availability, mission-critical enterprise applications including large-scale databases, BIDW, ERP and CRM. The new processor is also available as an option for seamless upgrades in existing SPARC Enterprise servers.

"The new SPARC Enterprise systems up the ante on performance and deliver the flexibility to address the most demanding enterprise workloads," said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems. "Today, we're freeing customers from the constraints of the mainframe with open systems that deliver the scalability, consolidation and virtualization they want along with long-term investment protection features that can future-proof their datacenters.”

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