New Sun Blade 6000 hopes to Capture Blade Market with I/O Capacity, Efficency & Performance

Sun offers up Flexible Platforms and High Performance in new Blades.
While HP and IBM are still the industry leader in Blade Computing. The new Sun Blade 6000 offers up some fierce competition to the Blade Server Market. The new 6000 can run on either SPARC, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon Processor-based server modules, while also able to run on Windows, Linux and Solaris operating systems.

The new system also boasts up to double the memory and I/O Capacity of competing blades and rackmounts

Features Galore, but how does the 6000 stack up against HP & IBM?
The latest and the greatest servers are Sun, but how will the new system fare in the marketplace? As HP & IBM battle for superemacy in the is now in the fast growing and lucrative mid-market segment, Sun focuses on Scalability, Performance, and Virtualization Optimization.

Sun has in effect created a virtualization optimized blade system. The increased memory capacity (up to a whopping 64GB) and I/O bandwidth allows the Sun Blade 6000 to be positioned as a breakthrough virtualization platform that supports large memory usage, while supporting an array of multicore processors.

A Closer Look at the Chassis (front View)

Chassis Rear View

Some of the features of the Sun Blade 6000 10RU Chassis Include:

• Support to up to 80 Sun UltraSPARC T1 Cores
• Support to up to 40 AMD Opteron Cores
• Support to up to 80 INtel Xeon Cores
• Large I/O Capacity: 1.42Tb/s per Chassis
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Sun Refresh Service: Keeping the Data Center Fresh
The Sun Refresh Service is a unique subscription service that ensures that the server modules will be equipped with the latest systems. The service includes Installation of the Sun Blade System, and three refreshes of server modules to the latest architecture over a 42-month period.

The Sun BLade X6250 Server Module with Intel Xeon Processor

Is the new Sun Blade 6000 Perfect for SMB Market?

These new blades may be a perfect candidate for the SMB. Pricewise they are very affordable. Pricing for the Sun Blade 6000 starts at $4,995 for the Chassis; $5,995 per Sun Blade T6300 server module; $3,695 per Sun Blade X6250 server module; and $3,995 per server module for the Sun Blade X6220.

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