Overview of Sun Servers

Discount brings you a full line of Sun servers, offering a range of processing options and operating systems including:

Sun Blades
Self-contained infrastructures, designed to save time, power and money.

Sun CoolThreads Servers
Offering the highest throughput with up to 128 simultaneous threads, 16 cores in 1RU or 2RU.

Sun x64 Servers
AMD or Intel based servers, also known as x86/x64 based systems, running Solaris, Windows, Linux, VMware.

Sun Netra Carrier-Grade Servers
Ruggedized, NEBS-certified servers and software designed for the most demanding applications under any condition.

Sun Entry Rackmount Servers
Offering choice of processor or OS in an easy to scale, easy to manage, and easy on your budget rackmount server.

Sun Fire Mid Range Servers
Designed for 24/7 mission critical computing backed by enterprise-class features and mainframe-class RAS.

Sun Fire High-End Servers
Designed for 24/7 mission critical computing backed by enterprise-class features and mainframe-class RAS.

Sun Servers at a Glance

• Up to double the memory and I/O capacity of competing blades and rackmounts
• Shared power and cooling, save 15% more energy than equivalent rackmount servers
• Maximum flexibility – SPARC, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon processor-based server modules, as well as the Solaris, Linux, and Windows operating systems
• Most open blade platform with industry standard PCIe ExpressModule
• Streamlined, Sun Blade Transparent Management to ease integration into existing datacenter and management infrastructure
• Hot-swappable, hot-pluggable, redundant modular components to optimize reliability, availability and serviceability

• Sun systems with CoolThreads technology deliver breakthrough performance with dramatic space and power efficiency. Tackle the demands of secure web scale and virtualized computing with the fastest, most space-saving and energy-efficient, and open systems. In addition, you get open source Solaris 10 OS and virtualization technology at no extra cost.

• Meet the industry's broadest line of x64 systems. Powered by the AMD Opteron or Intel® Xeon® processors, these systems give you top performance, scalability, power efficiency, manageability, and longevity benefits. Plus, they let you meet your high performance computing, server consolidation, and web infrastructure goals, whether you run Solaris, Linux, Windows, or VMware.

• These ruggedized, NEBS-certified servers demonstrate Sun's continuing innovation including virtualization, 10 GbE networking and CMT processor technologies delivering breakthrough economics and consolidation benefits to the Telco customers. The Netra product portfolio provides a range of choices of server architectures (ATCA blades or rackmount), CPUs (UltraSPARC or x64 from AMD and Intel) and operating systems (Solaris, Linux or Windows), augmented by specialized telco software and solutions. Sun's telecom customers can take advantage of these advanced solutions to accelerate the delivery and drastically reduce the start-up costs of their next generation voice, video and data services.

• What are Sun's Entry Rackmount Servers? - Servers that are easy to scale, easy to manage, and easy on your budget. Offering a choice of processors AMD, Intel and SPARC and applications, Solaris, Windows, Linux, VMware and more
• Ideal for - Small, medium- or large sized companies needing virtualization and consolidation, web, infrastructure, network applications, caching, firewall and more
• Advantages - Sun is the only company to offer you a complete lineup of processor architecture and operating system choices offering optimum Price/performance, flexibility, scalability and innovative design all at an affordable entry price point

• Designed for compute density backed by enterprise-class features, Sun's midrange servers deliver high performance and protect your IT investments over time. Sun Fire UltraSPARC IV+ Servers offer up to five times the performance of previous UltraSPARC III systems. Yet you retain Sun's migration-enabling unbroken binary application compatibility with the Solaris OS.
• Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers deliver mainframe-class RAS in a value priced server, the midrange SPARC Enterprise servers are highly scalable virtualization/consolidation systems optimized for 24x7 mission critical computing

• Sun's flagship high-end servers are designed to meet the mission critical demands of the datacenter. The Sun Fire UltraSPARC IV+ Servers provide over five times greater performance, doubled memory capacity and significantly increased I/O performance over previous generation systems.
• The new Sun SPARC Enterprise servers, feature the powerful dual core SPARC64 VI processor and provide mainframe-class RAS at open system prices. Highly scalable, with up to 24 dynamic domains and thousands of Solaris containers per system these servers enable massive server consolidation and datacenter virtualization.

The Benefits of Sun Servers

Sun Servers help to solve your most pressing IT problems. You need an agile, secure IT environment that lets you respond quickly to business opportunities. With solutions built on open standards, Sun can work with your existing infrastructure to help you build an agile, secure IT environment to meet your growing business needs.

The Value of Used Sun Products

Sun provides a diversity of software, systems, services, and microelectronics that power everything from consumer electronics, to developer tools and the world's most powerful datacenters. Sun's core brands include the Java technology platform, Solaris operating system, the MySQL database management system, StorageTek and the UltraSPARC processor.

Sun products serve consumers and individual developers, alongside the largest global enterprises. Sun's network computing platforms are used by nearly every sector of society and industry, and power some of the world's best known search, social networking, entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, news, energy and engineering companies - broadened by one of the world's largest portfolio of software and service partners.

Every day, companies and governments around the world benefit from Sun's technology stewardship, via Sun's work to create the standards that bridge the world's digital divide, to Sun's solutions and business practices that offer higher performance with lower power, cooling, and space requirements. Sun invents products and services that save time and money for those seeking to use technology to create opportunities. Today more than ever: The Network is the Computer.