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Sun Unveils First Storage Blade; Delivers Extreme Datacenter Efficiency with Three New Server Blades

New Storage Blade Provides Industry-Leading Storage Scalability and Performance; New CMT Blade Sets Four World Records on Enterprise and HPC Benchmarks; Netra ATCA Blade Delivers Higher Levels of Performance for Service Providers

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. October 21, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today expanded its systems portfolio with the addition of a new storage blade and two new server modules targeted at improving efficiency in the enterprise. The Sun Blade 6000 disk module, Sun’s first Open Storage blade, offers up to 1.2 TB of storage capacity and coupled with Solaris ZFS is a flash-ready platform targeted to change the economics of the enterprise datacenter. The new UltraSPARC T2 Plus-based Sun Blade T6340 server module features built-in, no cost virtualization technologies via Solaris Containers and Logical Domains (LDoms), making it an ideal platform for consolidating and virtualizing web scale applications, large scale databases, ERP and CRM. The Sun Blade X6240 server module, based on the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, excels on high performance computing (HPC), consolidation and virtualization workloads with industry leading memory and I/O capacity. Sun also announced the Sun Netra CP3250 ATCA blade server, a new Intel Xeon blade server built for the telco market. All enterprise systems announced today are available for a free 60-day trial via Sun’s Try and Buy Program at www.sun.com/tryandbuy.

The new storage blade and the new blades are exciting announcements, which I will need to read up more about, any innovation of the blade platform has to be good for blades as a platform and for end user choice. I’m off to read up more, I’m interested in the telco blade in particular, as well as this new storage blade!

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