http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/hardware/servers/news/index.cfm?newsid=3368
Sun Microsystems is launching a new blade server system that propels it into direct competition with blade market leaders IBM and HP.
This is a move into what Sun calls the front of the data centre – that is, more customer-facing systems – as opposed to back-end systems running enterprise databases, which Sun’s UK product manager Gary Owen described as the company’s heartland.
The Sun Blade 6000 system consists of a new chassis and a set of blades that will include CPUs from AMD, Intel and Sun. According to Owen, the 6000’s differentiators are five-fold:
Check out this article, its talking in detail with Sun about their new blade range – they do look fantastic, the cross platform support sounds particularly interesting, that I can use them as a consolidation solution for my Sun/Linux and Wintel kit is very appealing – the article discusses the benefits of the new blades, what’s changed, check it out.
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