Midrange Servers

Designed for compute density backed by enterprise-class features, Sun's midrange servers deliver high performance and protect your IT investments over time. Sun has enhanced the industry's leading 64-bit server line with the UltraSPARC IV+ processor, offering up to five times the performance of previous UltraSPARC III systems. Yet you retain Sun's migration-enabling unbroken binary application compatibility with the Solaris OS.

Sun Fire V490 Server  The Sun Fire V490 server is the lowest cost implementation of Sun's enterprise data center technology. Taking up only 5 rack units of space, the Sun Fire V490 server packs up to 4 UltraSPARC IV Chip Multithreading processors delivering up to eight concurrent threads in 32 GB of memory. The Solaris OS, the industry's leading UNIX operating system, unleashes this multithreading/multiprocessor muscle to create a server capable of delivering extreme levels of throughput for demanding departmental and enterprise applications. Investments are protected with the ability to mix and manage different speed UltraSPARC IV processors in the same system. The Sun Fire V490 Server is ideal for decision support, ecommerce infrastructure and application-centric workloads.

Sun Fire V890 Server  Featuring up to 8 x UltraSPARC IV 64-bit processor with Chip Multithreading technology, the Sun Fire V890 server delivers up to 16 simultaneous compute threads. Coupled with the Solaris OS, the industry's most robust, secure, and popular UNIX operating system, the Sun Fire V890 server offers extensive compute, I/O and storage capacity delivered in a highly integrated package for fast deployment. Investments are protected with the ability to mix and manage different speed UltraSPARC IV processors in the same system. The Sun Fire V890 server excels in supporting an extensive array of applications, including network infrastructure and database, e-commerce, and ERP workloads.

Sun Fire E2900 Server The Sun Fire E2900 server delivers enterprise-class performance and scalability at breakthrough price points. Scaling up to 12 UltraSPARC IV processors with chip multithreading technology executing 24 simultaneous computing threads, this high-performance, rack-optimized server is optimized for a wide range of compute-intensive applications such as demanding database and business processing applications. The Sun Fire E2900 server protects investments with the ability to mix and manage UltraSPARC IV and UltraSPARC III processors--running at their rated speeds--in the same system. The server offers advanced features for higher availability such as full hardware redundancy, Dynamic Reconfiguration, and Predictive Self-Healing and Solaris Containers through the robust Solaris 10 OS . This server also comes remote-services ready for preemptive support and preloaded with a rich set of applications with the Java Enterprise System. With Capacity on Demand (COD) 2.0, the Sun Fire E2900 server offers the ability to add 'on demand' resources to meet changing business requirements and pay only when extra capacity is needed.

Sun Fire E4900 Server   The Sun Fire E4900 server is a large-scale shared memory system with Chip Multithreading (CMT) UltraSPARC IV processor technology, offering over 2x the application throughput of previous generation servers in the same footprint. Scaling up to 12 UltraSPARC IV processors executing 24 simultaneous computing threads, this server is ideal for server consolidation and optimized for running applications such as large departmental databases, customer management, decision support, and high-performance technical computing. For maximum performance and availability, the Sun Fire E4900 server offers full hardware redundancy, fault-isolated Dynamic System Domains, Dynamic Reconfiguration and Predictive Self-Healing and Solaris Containers through the robust Solaris 10 OS. Investments are protected with the ability to mix and manage UltraSPARC IV and UltraSPARC III processors - running at their rated speed - in the same system. This server comes remote-services ready for preemptive support and preloaded with a rich set of applications with the Java Enterprise System. With Capacity on Demand (COD) 2.0, the Sun Fire E4900 server offers the ability to add 'on demand' resources to meet changing business requirements and pay only when extra capacity is needed.

Sun Fire E6900 Server  The Sun Fire E6900 server is a large-scale highly available powerhouse with Chip Multithreading (CMT) UltraSPARC IV processor technology, offering over 2x the application throughput of previous generation servers in the same footprint. Scaling up to 24 UltraSPARC IV processors executing 48 simultaneous computing threads, this server is ideal for server consolidation and optimized for running applications such as datawarehousing, decision support, and high-performance technical computing. For maximum performance and availability, the Sun Fire E6900 server offers full hardware redundancy, fault-isolated Dynamic System Domains, Dynamic Reconfiguration and Predictive Self-Healing and Solaris Containers through the robust Solaris 10 OS. Investments are protected with the ability to mix and manage UltraSPARC IV and UltraSPARC III processors - running at their rated speed - in the same system. This server comes remote-services ready for preemptive support and preloaded with a rich set of applications with the Java Enterprise System. With Capacity on Demand (COD) 2.0, the Sun Fire E6900 server offers the ability to add 'on demand' resources to meet changing business requirements and pay only when extra capacity is needed.

Sun Fire V1280 Server  The Sun Fire V1280 server attacks the cost of computing by providing high performance and advanced reliability features in a rack-optimized form factor. Designed to simplify IT maintenance, increase system uptime, and relieve applications constrained by Windows limitations, the Sun Fire V1280 server offers enterprise-class features with up to 12 UltraSPARC III processors, up to 96GB of memory, and hot-swappable CPU/memory boards enabled by Sun's proven Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR) technology. This high performance server also features two Gigabit Ethernet ports and a 9.6 GBps system interconnect for compute-intensive and I/O-demanding applications such as database and Web serving. For a NEBS certified, DC powered version of the Sun Fire V1280 server, please refer to the Netra 1280 server.