Sun Microsystems announced several new server products that offer better virtualization and energy efficiency capabilities, hoping the number of servers in data centers can be reduced.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers, announced today, are the first Sun products to utilize the UltraSPARC T2 processor and offer "record-breaking performance with the highest levels of space and energy efficiency." Though both products support up to 64GB of memory, the T5120 is a 1U product that can equip 64GB of memory; the T5220 is a 2U server designed for eight hard drives.

The T5120 and T5220 carry price tags of $13,995 and $14,995 respectively, with international availability now.

All three products ship with either 1.2GHz or 1.4GHz processors, though the 1.4GHz ships with eight cores while 1.2GHz comes with four or six cores, depending on consumer demands.

Sun recently announced the Sun Fire X4450 and X4150 servers, which use Intel Xeon quad-core processing technology. Both new products can run Solaris, Microsoft Windows, Linux or Vmware.

Virtualization and energy efficiency continue to help drive innovation at Sun Microsystems, with all three systems designed to help consumers provide better performance while using less watts.

“By utilizing virtualization technology and the Solaris OS, customers can consolidate workloads to fewer servers, thereby saving in hardware, management and energy costs,” a Sun spokesperson told DailyTech. “In addition, customers can use the virtualization feature within Solaris 10 (called Containers) for free once they have installed the operating systems for their hardware.”


Source from DailyTech