Sun Fire Servers Powered By Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors

By DE Editors

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) announced the availability of its first Sun Fire and Sun Blade systems powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, bringing new capabilities, increased performance and expanded scalability to customers that purchase or upgrade to these quad-core systems.

The Sun Fire X4140, Sun Fire X4240, and Sun Fire X4440 servers, the newest systems to join Sun’s extensive x64 (x86, 64-bit) server line, give customers industry-leading energy efficiency, density, and scalability powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors and a choice of operating systems, including the Solaris 10, OpenSolaris, Linux, Windows, and VMware.

Additional systems announced with Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors include the Sun Fire X2200 M2, Sun Fire X4100 M2, Sun Fire X4200 M2, Sun Fire X4600 M2 and Sun Blade X8440 servers. Building on Sun’s successful line of AMD Opteron-based Sun Fire servers, which have been deployed by more than 12,000 customers at over 31,000 site locations, Sun servers powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors offer unique competitive differentiators over similar servers from HP, Dell and IBM, in the areas of storage, density, memory, and performance.

The Sun Fire X2200 M2, Sun Fire X4100 M2, Sun Fire X4140, Sun Fire X4200 M2, Sun Fire X4240 and Sun Fire X4440 servers powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are available now. The Sun Fire X4600 M2 and Sun Blade X8440 servers powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are expected to be available by the end of the quarter. For more information on pricing and features, please visit Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.