Succeed with Sun

The use of energy is one of the defining topics of our age. The personal expense of powering your server for the daily operation of your business can be quite significant. Also, the toll that all of this cumulative power takes on the power grid is quite sizable in some cities. Aside from the expense, there is also the potential for devastation in lost information, should something go terribly wrong.

Computers provide us with our entertainment as well as our livelihood and lifestyle. Whether we are taking in an opera or purchasing a drink at the local pub, we can be sure that information has passed through a computer at some point in the transaction.

The administration of this municipality is very much dependant on Information Technology (IT). However, their servers were not operating very efficiently. They were employing 16 distributed servers and using outdated desktop tower servers. There were over 100 desktops in use. The municipality decided upon

The Sun Fire X4540 servers - boast extreme data access speeds at a very low price. It is 8 cores of AMD Opteron processing with 48 TB of storage in a 4RU server all for around $21.995+. It is half the size and half the cost of competing systems. It runs Solaris OS, Windows and Linux.

Processor options: Processor- Two Quad-core AMD Opteron Processors, (Model 2356 Rev F2.3 GHz) Cache - 128K L1, 512K L2 each core and 2MB L3 shared by all four cores

One technique is the employment of Virtual Desktop infrastructure. A product that achieves this is VMware View. This portfolio of products allows IT to run virtual desktops from the data center giving the user personalized desktop views from whatever device they choose to use, from any location.

Hard Disk: Hard Disk Supported- 48 hot swappable, 3.5″ SATA II Disk RAID configurations- SW RAID enabled by RAID-Z in Solaris ZFS for RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, and RAID z2 for RAID 6

Standard/Integrated Interfaces : Network - 4 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet ports, RJ45 connector Serial - 1 TIA/EIA-232-F asynchronous RJ45 connector Network Management - 1 dedicated 10/100Base-T Ethernet port, RJ45 connector Serial - 1 TIA/EIA-232-F asynchronous RJ45 connector All these features and many more make the Sun Fire X4540 servers the absolute best choice for compact design and efficiency.

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