Sun Microsystems launched the new UltraSPARC T2-based servers on 9th October, 2007. Apparently these new energy-efficient servers, developed by Chief Systems Architect Andy Bechtolsheim, will deliver advanced virtualization capabilities, improved system utilization and industry-leading energy efficiency.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 servers and Sun Blade T6320 modules deliver the compute power of 64 individual systems on a single server or blade and beat competing RISC servers on web-tier tasks by over 4x while maintaining 6x better performance per watt.
Equipped with built-in Solaris Operating System (OS) and free virtualization technologies these new Sun servers are definitely more flexible, cost-effective systems for maximizing system utilization.
John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems, says,
good design is about creating an experience and solving technological challenges in efficient and cost effective ways not just in a single line of servers, but across platforms. What you’re seeing today is the result of Sun taking a leadership approach across both our x64 and CMT volume server architectures and packing superior performance and density in a footprint at a fraction of the competitions.
I hope other vendors of computers, computer software, and information-technology services take a cue from Sun Microsystems and take more efforts in energy savings initiatives for its products and data centers.
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