Sun picks Opteron over Itanium

Sanjit Sinha

SINGAPORE: Server giant, Sun Microsystem has unveiled throughput computing system and complete refresh of Unix lineup. "We're starting the year with our strongest product lineup ever and delivering customers the ultimate in throughput power," said Sun Microsystem, Enterprise Systems Products, VP, Steve Campbell.

In the recently concluded "Asia South Data Center and Storage Media Symposium" at Singapore (March 30 to March 31, 2004), Campbell said, "With the Opteron processor based volume servers in our basket, we can now offer the lowest priced server in the market." He added that Sun does not have any plans as of now to enter into the Itanium space.

Architecture Evangelist of Sun Microsystems, Tom Atwood laid stress on importance of both vertical and horizontal scalability depending on the server's installations at the data center or application software area or the client interface. "We design architecture for our customers in order to optimize resources at minimum cost without compromising the quality," he said.

Sun also announced updates to its software products - the N1 Grid System, Solaris 10 Operating Systems and Java Enterprise Systems - that would work seamlessly with Sun's new Sun Fire enterprise servers. It believes that with an approach to provide complete solutions to customers, be it hardware or software, they are poised to take a big leap in the enterprise systems market.

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