For optimal scalability, flexibility, and performance at a low total cost of ownership (TCO), Sun servers use a balanced system design. By committing to a seamless, smooth upgrade path with a common UltraSPARC[tm] architecture, common Solaris[tm] Operating Environment, and binary compatibility, Sun also provides excellent investment protection for your applications and hardware.

Sun's general-purpose, entry-level servers are low-cost, widely scalable, and extremely reliable. Ranging from single processor systems to up to 8 procesors running the Sun Solaris[tm] Operating Environment, Linux or Windows -- Sun delivers a variety of options to meet your specific business needs.

• SunFire V120 / V125
  
• SunFire V240 / V245
  
• SunFire V40z (Solaris, LInux & Windows Servers)
• SunFire X64 Servers (X2100, X2100 M2, X2200 M2, X4100, X4200, X4500, X4600)
  
• SunFire V440 / V445
  
• SunFire V490 Dual-core CPU's
  
• SunFire V890 Dual-core CPU's
  
• CMT (T1000 & T2000) Coolthread Servers w/up to 8 cores per CPU
  

Midframe and Midrange Servers

For today's competitive environment, Sun provides a Business-Ready Infrastructure that lets you hit the ground running. By bringing mainframe-like features to the midrange server arena, the Sun Fire[tm] 2900-6900 Midframe[tm] servers are designed to be available when your end-users need them, to adapt to changing application requirements, simply integrate into your environment and deliver a solid return on your IT investment. 

• SunFire V1280
  
• SunFire E2900
• SunFire E4900
  
• SunFire E6900

Large Scale

Large-scale, mission-critical applications such as server consolidation, mainframe rehosting, high performance computing, decision support & data warehousing

• SunFire E20K
• SunFire E25K
  

Server Appliances

Netra Servers

Sun's NEBS Level 3 Certified Netra[tm] line of servers are rugged, rack-optimized systems with features that make them ideal for use in rack-intensive deployments in less than ideal environments. The consistent, small-footprint of Netra servers allow for easy deployment in prevalent industry-standard racks.

• Netra N210
  
• Netra N240
• Netra N440
• Netra N1280
• Netra N1290(DC)
• CMT (Netra T2000) Coolthread Server w/up to 8 cores per CPU
  

Cluster Servers

What is clustering and why is it interesting?

Clustering is a computer architecture to create a network of servers that cooperate with each other. This cooperation has two forms. The first, clustering for availability, allows a customer's application to keep running on a secondary server should the primary server fail. The second is clustering for scalability where the customer's application is parcelled out over two or more computer systems to gain performance.

Clustering of servers requires three things:

• A cluster-aware operating system. This is our Solaris[tm] Operating Environment.
  
• Clustering software as the interface between the Solaris Operating Environment and our customer's application. Customers have a choice here depending on the nature of the application: Sun[tm] Cluster or HPC ClusterTools[tm].
  
• An interconnect between the servers for heartbeat messages and data and application coordination information.
  

• Sun Ultra 25 Sparc architecture
• Sun Ultra 45 Sparc architecture
  
• Sun Ultra 20 M2 (AMD Opteron and supports Solaris, Linux or Windows)
• Sun Ultra 40 (AMD Opteron and supports Solaris, Linux or Windows)

• StarOffice
  

• Sun Ray[tm] 1G
  
• Sun Ray[tm] 2 & 2FS
  
• Sun Ray[tm] 170 & 270
  
• Sun Ray Server Software - Version 4.x Server Software. Are you current?
  
  

• Sun[tm] XVR-100, XVR-200, XVR-300 & XVR-2500
  
• Sun NVIDIA Quadro line of graphics accelerators  (From NVS280 up to the NVIDIA Uber 3D FX5500)