Sun and Intel Partner products start, push fire x4450/4150

As a crystallization of both partners, Sun Fire X4450 and X4150 servers, fully integrating the technical advantages of both sun and Intel companies, with the intel® quad-core xeon® processor, unique system design, Solaris 10, and built-in virtualization technologies to enable customers to lead performance, The advantages of energy consumption and computational density, simplified management, and extensive application support meet pressing needs for virtualization and centralization, lower energy consumption, efficient use of data center space, and simplified IT management and maintenance. The move also allows Sun to continue to expand its advantage in the x64 server sector, where Sun ranked 5th in the global x64 server market in 2007.

A strategic alliance between Sun and Intel in January 2007 opened a new chapter in Global server development. The two companies build a broad strategic alliance around Intel's support for the Solaris Operating system (OS) and sun commitment to provide a full range of servers and workstations for use in the enterprise and telecommunications industries based on Intel processors. The two-company alliance deals with Solaris, java™, and netbeans™ software, as well as Intel (R) Xeon (R) processors, and other enterprise-class technologies from Intel and Sun. The alliance also includes efforts by the two companies to work together on engineering, design and marketing. Sun and Intel's all-round collaboration has brought enterprise-class performance to the x64 rack and blade servers, making the x64 server increasingly resilient to the high-end server market.

Mr. Li Yongqi, marketing director of Sun Greater China, believes that the world's leading operating system--solaris 10, innovative and unique system design, full solution delivery capabilities, with Intel's industry's broadest planning platform, leading manufacturing processes and a long-term roadmap for development, will be comprehensive innovation to promote the global x64 server market development, to help enterprises cope with business challenges, and promote enterprises to the upper floors.

"The establishment of the strategic alliance between the two sides in January 2007 has enabled the Intel® xeon® server processor and the Solaris OS solution to extend to a wider range of applications," said Mr. Ling, China's regional director of the Enterprise Solutions Division of Intel (China) Limited. The intel® Quad-core xeon® processor uses the latest Intel 45 Nano process technology to further improve system performance, dramatically reduce energy consumption, and provides leading scalability and Best-in-class virtualization capabilities. The combination of the Intel® quad-core xeon® processor and the Solaris 10 operating system and Sun's superior system design capabilities will fully enhance the performance, high availability, and performance of the X86 server, leading the development of the server. ”

Perfect integration of the intel® xeon® processor with the Solaris 10 operating system

As one of the key foundations of cooperation, the intel® xeon® processor is the most widely deployed and industry-supported server platform in the world. Currently, the intel® xeon® processor has been successfully deployed on more than 40 million servers and the actual application runs for up to billions of hours. Quad-core intel® xeon® processors can not only reduce energy consumption but also improve performance, more reliable, high-availability, and manageable security features, in addition to its hardware-supported intel® virtualization technology, can support real-time virtual machine porting to improve failover, load balancing, Disaster recovery or server maintenance and other usage patterns, better guarantee the stable operation of the server.

"In this collaboration, Intel and Sun have optimized the Solaris 10 operating system specifically for the intel® xeon® processor, and Intel has launched a OpenSolaris based solution," said Wu Shen, director of enterprise systems at Sun's Greater China division. As the industry's leading and open source operating system, Solaris 10 enables x86 servers to achieve full performance, low-cost, and high-reliability integration. ”

Solaris 10 maximizes asset utilization, built-in virtualization technology enables efficient workload consolidation, and power management is fully integrated with Intel ®speedstep technology, and in system performance, the Solaris 10 industry-proven multithreaded technology Enables scalability leadership, and DTrace enables dynamic application tuning and optimization. The "Precursor Self-healing technology" (predictive self-healing) technology in the Solaris 10 operating system can proactively identify and repair components before they fail to ensure the maximum availability of the system. With revolutionary and innovative automated fail-safe file Systems--solaris ZFS (zettabyte file system) protects data through "199-type" error detection and remediation techniques, which can greatly reduce complex and demanding data management.

It is worth mentioning that Solaris is the only UNIX operating system that can be applied to a variety of systems, from x86 to RISC based, and is available free of charge to any customer. Other vendors based on the Intel Xeon (R) computing platform can benefit from the Solaris Open source operating system optimized by Intel and Sun.

For software support, Sun has four operating systems for users to choose from: Sun Solaris, Microsoft windows, Linux, or VMware. In this way, customers can choose the applicable operating system, and can widely run applications, so that the new server can truly as a common operating platform.