The Sun Blade Blog

Would IBM "Dare To Compare" blade offerings more accurately? (#1)

On its website, IBM published a competitive analysis of its BladeCenter offerings versus blade products from HP, Dell, and Sun. Of course, assessments on Sun's blade products were negative, misrepresented, and in some areas outright wrong, while positioning IBM in a positive light. The IBM blade "Dare To Compare" web page is posted at: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/migratetoibm/systems/bladecenter/compare2.html  

Posted at 12:41PM Mar 05, 2008 by Douglas Wilson in Sun  |  Comments[7]

X8450 And The Four Socket Blade World

We're launching the Sun Blade X8450.  

I looked at the four socket blade landscape.  Sun and HP are the only vendors offering four socket blades using Intel.  We are differentiating ourselves from HP by offering a superior, four socket optimized chassis.   The Sun Blade 8000 chassis (with X8450s or X8440s) has screaming fast I/O and slick ILOM 2.0 management.  IBM does not want to touch this market and Dell is nowhere close. 

Posted at 08:28AM Feb 20, 2008 by Amit Raman in Sun  |  Comments[9]

Simple by Design

Our engineers and architects spend a lot of time to eliminate complexity and provide optimal designs for our systems.  The users and administrators of the world recognize and appreciate that simplicity. [Read More]

Posted at 08:08PM Jan 24, 2008 by blades in Sun  |  Comments[2]

Quadruple Digit Marketshare Growth

I don't think I will be able to say this many times in my career, but we achieved quadruple digit marketshare growth in the first full quarter since announcing the Sun Blade 6000 platform, we have seen a strong ramp for both Sun Blade 6000 as well as continued momentum for Sun Blade 8000.[Read More]

Posted at 07:58PM Dec 17, 2007 by blades in Sun  |  Comments[10]

Secured Web Scaling

The UltraSPARC T2 is no ordinary processor – it is completely network centric.  The concept of system-on-a-chip is not new.  Many processors tried to do it all.  However, the complexity in design and the volume cost were prohibitively high – until CMT.  [Read More]

Posted at 09:36PM Oct 15, 2007 by Yong King Shen in Sun  |  Comments[0]

VMworld 2007 - report from the trenches

Tradeshow booths are great venues for obtaining real-time feedback on products.  From a product roadmap perspective, the feedback can be excellent input and guidance for future product updates and enhancements.[Read More]

Posted at 01:06PM Sep 21, 2007 by Marc Shelley in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Try and Buy Program

Following the last post on the "Blades vs. Racks" topic, you can compare your current rack mount servers with our Sun Blade 6000 Modular System for free! [Read More]

Posted at 10:15AM Aug 31, 2007 by cbs in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Blades Versus Racks

Most likely, yes!  Blades are being adopted at a rapid pace across enterprises.  Enterprises want cost-effective, performance enhanced hardware that delivers solutions for high-performance computing (HPC), virtualization, back-office and Web 2.0 demands.

Posted at 09:23AM Aug 20, 2007 by Amit Raman in Sun  |  Comments[1]

Introducing the World's First Virtualized Development Platform

CollabNet and Sun Microsystems have joined efforts to offer the first blade server based Virtualized Development Platform (VDP) that can save up to $1.75 million per 100 developers per year in infrastructure costs -- it can actually pay for itself in a month!
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Posted at 01:51PM Aug 06, 2007 by Lisa Robinson Schoeller in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Fast deployment and easy management

One of the many cool things about our new blade systems is that they deliver what is called Transparent Management.[Read More]

Posted at 04:25PM Jul 22, 2007 by Trefor in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Constellation Petascale Computing

In our recent launch for the Sun Blade 6000, we mentioned a new HPC blades system we plan to formally introduce later this year.  This week, at the International Supercomputing show in Dresden, we will "preview" the Sun Constellation System.

Posted at 09:23PM Jun 25, 2007 by blades in Sun  |  Comments[0]

In The Beginning

So we wanted to start a blog for Blades. The intent is to leverage the internal and hopefully external community to publish compelling content around blade technologies. Lets see how it goes.

Posted at 04:40PM Jun 24, 2007 by blades in Sun  |  Comments[0]