Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu unveil Sparc enterprise servers 15th July 2008 By Staff writer Fujitsu has announced an enhanced line of Sparc enterprise servers - M4000, M5000, M8000 and M9000 - that delivers a highly scalable, enterprise-class virtualization and consolidation platform with up to 80% better performance on commercial applications and 2x better performance on HPC workloads and using 44% less energy per core.

Based on the quad-core Sparc64 VII processor and the Solaris Operating System (OS), the new SPARC Enterprise servers are ideal platforms for high-availability, mission-critical enterprise applications including large-scale databases, BIDW, ERP and CRM. The new processor is also available as an option for seamless upgrades in existing Sparc Enterprise servers.

The Sparc enterprise servers are build on the existing systems co-designed by Sun and Fujitsu and extend long-term customer investment protection through binary compatibility, industry leading hardware and software partitioning and the ultra-flexible 'mix and match' Sparc64 processor architecture.