Sharper, Shiny New Blades Expand Systems Portfolio
Blades continue to be the hottest segment of the server market and Sun's vision and technology advances have played big roles in that phenomenal growth. On Monday Sun added three new blades to its Sun Blade 6000 Family and one new blade to the Sun Netra ATCA Blade Family including the Sun Blade 6000 Disk Module, Sun Blade T6340 Server Module, Sun Blade X6240 Server Module, and the Sun Netra CP3250 ATCA blade server.
The announcement included a new Storage Blade which provides industry-Leading storage scalability and Performance; a new CMT blade which sets four world records on Enterprise and HPC Benchmarks and finally a Netra ATCA Blade which delivers higher levels of performance for service providers.
Here's a quick look at the new blades announced:
>The Sun Blade 6000 Disk Module The Sun Blade 6000 Disk Module is the industry's most scalable direct attached storage solution in a blade form factor.
>The Sun Blade T6340 Server Module The Sun Blade T6340 server module is Sun's first blade server to use the powerful, efficient UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor.
>The Sun Blade X6240 Server Module The Sun Blade X6240 server module with powerful quad-core AMD Opteron 2300 series processors offers industry leading memory and I/O capacity, making it an excellent option for high performance computing (HPC), as well as virtualization and consolidation.
>The Sun Netra CP3250 ATCA blade server is Sun's first eight-core, dual-socket Intel Xeon blade server and is Sun's highest performing x64 carrier-grade blade server.
For more information on these blades and to view this week's press release,click here
The announcement included a new Storage Blade which provides industry-Leading storage scalability and Performance; a new CMT blade which sets four world records on Enterprise and HPC Benchmarks and finally a Netra ATCA Blade which delivers higher levels of performance for service providers.
Here's a quick look at the new blades announced:
>The Sun Blade 6000 Disk Module The Sun Blade 6000 Disk Module is the industry's most scalable direct attached storage solution in a blade form factor.
>The Sun Blade T6340 Server Module The Sun Blade T6340 server module is Sun's first blade server to use the powerful, efficient UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor.
>The Sun Blade X6240 Server Module The Sun Blade X6240 server module with powerful quad-core AMD Opteron 2300 series processors offers industry leading memory and I/O capacity, making it an excellent option for high performance computing (HPC), as well as virtualization and consolidation.
>The Sun Netra CP3250 ATCA blade server is Sun's first eight-core, dual-socket Intel Xeon blade server and is Sun's highest performing x64 carrier-grade blade server.
For more information on these blades and to view this week's press release,click here
I'm really underwhelmed by the "storage blade" - it's not the most efficient use of space I've ever seen. I suppose our X4500 kind of ruined all others for me. Really, the J-series SAS enclosures make a lot more sense for pairing with the new SAS NE module.
The rest sound great, though.
Posted by Charles Soto on October 23, 2008 at 08:53 AM PDT #