It's October... it's the postseason... and Sun's new T5440 Server gets me thinking about the Red Sox. Bit of a stretch? Not at all. Think back to last Monday's ALDS game. The rookie - the newest guy on the team - Jed Lowrie- brought in the winning run against the Los Angeles Angels to win the game and the first-round playoff series. Same thing with the T5440 Server – Sun's newest server - paving an entirely new way in the industry, setting an all time new bar, the "way of the future" for servers.

I'm a baseball junkie... I love stats and the T5440 Server's are impressive:
• one to four UltraSPARC T2 Plus Chip Multi-threaded Technology (CMT) SPARC processors running at 1.2 or 1.4 Ghz with 8 cores,
• up to 256 threads,
• 4 SAS disks and 8 PCIe slots,
• offers a total of 512 GB memory in its 8 GB FB-DIMM Sockets,
• 4 GbEthernet interfaces on the motherboard
• supports up to 128 LDOMs

What does all this get you? Only the highest throughput (up to 4 times higher performance) in the smallest space (a 4 RU chassis) with the lowest power requirements (2 times higher performance per Watt) in the industry. What else? You get a system on a chip – integrated directly on the processor: networking, security and PCI-Express I/O. Built-in, no-cost LDOMs and Solaris Containers virtualization technologies to consolidate workloads. The industry's most open platform built on open source technologies and open standards. You get breakthrough performance, eco-efficiency and cost savings. If I weren't superstitious, I'd say it was like winning the series. But I'll wait a few weeks for that.

Now our favorite rookie Lowrie wasn't on the diamond alone Monday night. He had the Red Sox's experienced veterans Jason Varitek, Kevin Youkilis, Tim Wakefield and Big Papi right alongside him; he's part of an amazing team.

Just like the T5440 Server - part of a great team too. It has the extensive experience of Sun's award-winning Services on its side. Sun's installation, support, training, professional and managed services allow customers to get the most from their T5440 Server. Sun's Professional Services can help with migrating applications and optimizing energy usage, virtualization and performance. Sun's Managed Services give expert help on the day-to-day operational tasks of your IT infrastructure reducing down-time and improving business efficiency and service levels.

There's a live chat taking place with Jonathan Schwartz, John Fowler, EVP Systems, Masood Heydari, VP SPARC Volume Systems, and Jim McHugh, VP Solaris, on Monday October 13th at 10am PT - to register, go to sun.com/launch. You can see a recent video on the launch at This is Something and can hear the webcast replay, download whitepapers or get more info at sun.com.launch. Finally, to see how the T5440 will perform in your environment with your apps, you can try it out for FREE for 60 days WITH FULL TECH SUPPORT. And you can then buy it at 40% off. Visit Sun's Try and Buy for all the details.