Sun continues the innovation of it’s blade platform

http://www.supercomputingonline.com/article.php?sid=15165  and http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-02/sunflash.20080220.1.xml

Industry’s Most Comprehensive Blade Portfolio Spans AMD Opteron, Intel Xeon and SPARC;

Sun Adds First Four-Socket Intel Xeon Blade to the Sun Blade 8000 System, Bringing Power of Solaris to Quad-Core Intel Xeon Computing: Sun Microsystems today announced dramatic customer and revenue growth for its entire line of Sun Blade systems, distinguishing Sun as the worldwide leader in year over year blade server growth in unit shipments and factory revenue (Q3CY07), according to IDC. Since re-entering the blades market in mid-2006, Sun tied for #4 in blade server market share for factory revenue (Q3CY07), released 29 new blade and supporting products, and gained more than 300 new Sun Blade customers. Sun also announced today it is introducing the Sun Blade X8450 server module, bringing the energy-efficient performance of Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors to the Sun Blade 8000 system family.

Very cool, the more scalable we can make the blade, the more potential markets and opportunities there might be for the blade platform. That Sun announces its Four-Socket Intel Blade has to be a good thing for customer choice and innovation of the blade platform. These Four-Socket blades might be great for virtualization  or a grid application if the applications can utilize all four sockets or all the cores.

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