Oracle Offers New Sun Microsystems Blade Servers

DECEMBER 2010

Oracle just announced on that it has upgraded its Sun Blade systems portfolio for cloud and highly-virtualized environments. Upgrading from its very popular Sun Fire Blade line, replacing such models as the x4170, x4140, x4150 and x4170 M2.

As part of the expansion, Oracle has upgraded its x86 blade products, added the new SPARC T3-1B blade server and dual-node Sun Blade x6275 M2 server module to existing blades, storage and networking modules.

Available with Oracle Solaris, Linux and VM pre-installed, Oracle says its enhanced Sun Blade modular systems offer reduced power consumption and compute density for enterprise customers.

“We continue to expand our Sun Fire x86 clustered systems with new SPARC and x86 blade and network products. These enhancements help facilitate integration into existing data centers and support new application-to-disk solutions that address our customers’ most challenging cloud requirements,” John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems, Oracle said in a statement.

Increasing compute density by up to two times, Oracle’s blade systems are embedded with either 1GbE and 10GbE networking for high speed Ethernet data transport and seamless integration with Oracle’s network fabric, according to the company.

Optimized for Oracle WebLogic Suite, Oracle says the new Sun Blade x6275 M2 blade “demonstrates up to 25 percent faster response times and 20 percent greater throughput in half the footprint of previously published tests.”