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White Paper: New Blades and Networking Solutions Ensure Solid ROI
Companies today have more data to store, process, and move across the network every day, and they need to manage it efficiently. This white paper discusses the challenges facing today’s companies, and why enterprises are turning to consolidation and virtualization on blade server architectures to help balance their need for performance resilience with the realities of shrinking IT budgets and resources.
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Video: Calculating the ROI of an x86 Server Refresh
Powerful, next-generation servers allow for increased resource utilization, reduced licensing fees, reduced energy costs, and simplified IT operations. The best way to find out how much you can save with a server refresh is by using an ROI calculator. Watch this video to learn more about the Sun & Intel x86 Server Refresh Savings Estimator, a tool that provides detailed reports explaining how much you can save and how quickly your company will realize a positive ROI.
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White Paper: Why Solid State Drives Usage Scenarios are Expanding for the Data Center
Solid state drives typically have been used in situations where applications required high data throughput or very high transaction rates between a server and the storage media. However, they are now being eyed for broader usage scenarios because of their myriad of cost-saving benefits. Read this white paper to learn how SSDs can help lower power consumption and reduce operating expenses across the board.
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Video: Best Practice for Managing Data Center Costs
Today’s companies are turning to consolidation and virtualization to lower costs and increase performance and agility. Next-generation, high-performance servers from Sun Microsystems - powered by the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series - deliver a platform that enables businesses to reap the benefits of virtualization and employ best practices for managing their data environments. Watch this video to learn more.
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Video: A New Standard for Business Computing: Sun Solaris OS on Intel-Powered Sun Servers
Today’s data centers need to boost energy efficiency, lower costs, and increase their performance and reliability to stay competitive in a global marketplace. Sun’s Solaris Operating System, combined with Sun servers running on the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, meets all of these needs: Higher performance, increased efficiency, top-notch reliability, and lower costs of ownership and operation.
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White Paper: The New Economics of Mid-size Enterprise Computing: Sun Systems Based on the Intel Xeon 5500 Series
Legacy mid-size computing systems have limited processing abilities while still requiring significant power and cooling resources. Sun servers, based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, deliver high performance, flexibility, reliability, and sustainable growth by combining the most advanced processors available today with intelligent management software that significantly lowers the total cost of ownership compared to previous generations of server platforms.
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White Paper: Best Practices for Managing Data Center Costs Via Application and Server Consolidation
Server sprawl, software license fees, and facilities costs are sending data center operational expenses through the roof at a time when every penny is being scrutinized. Next-generation Sun server systems, based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, deliver game-changing performance and virtualization improvements that help enable companies leverage best practices for IT management, application deployment, work processes, and cost control.
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White Paper: Reassessing Server Costs for Mid-size Companies
Current economic conditions might suggest companies hold on to their installed servers longer than three to five years, but that may not be the best strategy to employ. With pressures to rein in budgets, a server refresh to Sun Microsystems Sun servers based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series delivers the performance and energy savings that businesses require today.
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Video: How to Unleash Application Performance with Solid-State Drives & Sun Servers
This video is intended for executives and managers and tells how Sun servers equipped with Flash-enabled solid-state drives offer dramatic improvements to HPC, Web 2.0, and data center application performance.
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Tool: Sun & Intel x86 Server Refresh Savings Estimator
This tool allows you to enter data about your existing server environment and evaluate the benefits of replacing aging x86 server technology with the latest generation Sun servers powered by Intel® Xeon® processors. This tool was developed in collaboration between Sun, Intel and industry leading ROI and TCO consultant Alinean, Inc.
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Tech Brief: Sun Virtualization Solutions for Medium-Sized Businesses
In today’s economic climate, medium-sized businesses like yours need to optimize every possible aspect of day-to-day operations. Read this technology brief to learn how introducing virtualization technology can reduce TCO by enhancing your existing IT resources, significantly increasing server utilization, and allowing your infrastructure to quickly react to dynamic business conditions.
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Product Literature: The Solaris Operating System: Optimized for the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series
This white paper includes a short overview of the Sun and Intel collaboration, and brief technical descriptions of specific features and capabilities that can be implemented in the Solaris OS to optimize the specific capabilities of Intel Xeon processor 5500 series- systems.
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Product Literature: Sun Fire X2270 Server Ideal for Web Applications & Commercial High-Performance Computing
The Sun Fire X2270’s open network system design was built to protect and optimize Web architectures and commercial HPC environments with unequaled performance, scalability, and eco-efficiency. Read this product literature to learn more about the benefits of the Sun Fire X2270 Server and how it can help you reduce development time and time to market.
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Product Literature: Sun Fire X4170 Server: Ultimate in Enterprise Performance for Database Management & Web Applications
Your business is under increasing pressure to deliver more services and to support more users with a shrinking IT budget. Read this product literature to find out how the enterprise-class Sun Fire X4170 server can help your business meet those increasing demands, and offer optimal price and performance in a compact, space- and energy-efficient 1U form factor.
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White Paper: Sun Fire X4170, X4270, & X4275 Server Architecture
Datacenter complexity, energy, and cost issues continue to plague businesses and their ability to operate effectively within tight budget constraints. To achieve greater business and datacenter efficiencies and enhance agility, many small businesses and larger companies are turning to consolidation and implementing virtualization initiatives. This white paper describes the architecture of the Sun Fire X4170, X4270, and X4275 servers, including the processor technology, I/O subsystem, built-in system management features, and range of supported operating systems.
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White Paper: Unleashing Application Performance with Solid-State Drives and Sun Servers
Applications running on current multicore, multisocket servers are increasingly held back by storage systems that cannot keep up. Enterprise solid state drives can enhance I/O performance by breaking down storage bottlenecks and creating substantial improvements in server utilization and application performance. This paper discusses how Sun servers equipped with Flash-enabled solid-state drives can offer dramatic improvements to HPC, Web 2.0, and data center application performance.
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White Paper: Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series: An Intelligent Approach to IT Challenges
For the past decade, IT has rapidly added low-cost hardware to accommodate business growth. But with data centers now stretched to capacity in terms of power, cooling, and floor space, IT infrastructure is actually limiting IT from investing in innovation.
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Tech Brief: IT @ Intel: Selecting Server Processors to Reduce Total Cost
Intel testing and analysis demonstrates that the newest high-end Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series can significantly enhance server performance, providing an opportunity for Intel IT to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by 42 percent.
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White Paper: Solution Sheet for the Solaris™ OS and the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series
The decision to invest in an IT development and deployment platform is complex, and requires assessing current needs as well as accurately predicting future technology and business trends. This paper explores the benefits of running the Solaris OS on Intel Xeon-based machines.
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Tech Brief: Performance that Adapts to Your Business Environment
Application performance is critical for day-to-day business operations, as well as creating new products and services. By refreshing data center infrastructure with higher performance, more adaptive, and power-conscious servers, you can deliver additional capability and scalability within the same energy and space footprint, staying ahead of increasing business demands.
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White Paper: Technical Blue Print: The Solaris™ Operating System – Optimized for the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series
This technical reference guide is designed for developers and system administrators that want to optimize the Solaris OS on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series platform.
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Video: Why Servers Rock
Servers are perhaps the most boring type of computer; servers are only really relevant to IT professionals. Wrong!! Servers touch our lives every single day, and often in ways we're not even aware of. Find out how in this fun look at why servers rock.
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eSeminar: Save Data Center Dollars via Application and Server Consolidation
Saving data center budget dollars is not a "nice to have" in today’s turbulent economy, it’s a critical demand. The challenge for you as an IT manager is to figure out ways in which you can do this quickly and achieve the greatest returns.
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eSeminar: New Economics of Mid-Market Computing:Sun Fire Systems based on Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series
The new economic reality of IT in the mid-market is that customers need systems that can scale easily, are simpler to manage and can lower their total cost of computing.
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eSeminar: How to Optimize the Solaris OS on Sun Systems based on Intel® Xeon® 5500 Processor Series
Sun and Intel, as part of a broad strategic alliance, have been working together -- from design and architecture through implementation -- to ensure the Solaris OS is optimized to maximize the power and capabilities of current and future Intel Xeon processors.
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eSeminar: Reassessing Server Costs for Mid-Size Companies
Most mid-size companies keep their servers for three to five years. Current economic conditions might suggest that companies hold on to their installed servers longer. But doing so could actually drain your already limited IT budget.
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eSeminar: Solid State Drives – Improving Data Center Economics & Bringing New Capabilities!
The newest generation of Sun systems with Solid State Drives (SSDs) will help improve the economics of your data center by offering lower data center power usage, improving performance, lowering operating costs, and providing higher reliability.
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eSeminar: Don't Lose Your ROI with Antiquated Network Technology: Learn about New Technology from Sun & Intel
The latest blade server modules from Sun Microsystems, based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series, deliver significant performance gains and energy savings, plus an innovative approach to networking that virtualizes each 10GbE port and provides high-bandwidth connectivity to each virtual server.
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