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SUN FIRE E25K SERVER


Product has EOL announced with a last order date of January 8, 2009. It is superceded by the Sun SPARC Enterprise M-series.

When you need the raw power of 72 processors crunching 144 simultaneous threads, Sun's flagship high-end Sun Fire E25K server can take on just about any high-volume, mainframe class, mission critical computing challenge with headroom left over.

At A Glance

  • New UltraSPARC IV+: Over 5x faster than the UltraSPARC III servers and over double that of UltraSPARC IV servers in the same footprint
  • Hot swap and mix and match UltraSPARC IV+, IV, and III processors in the same system
  • Scales up to 72 processors with 144 threads and over 1TB memory for heavily threaded commercial applications
  • Over 40% faster I/O performance
  • Solaris OS, with its application compatibility guarantee, delivers seamless processor migration
  • Provision up to 18 Uniboards - the same boards used on Sun Fire E4900-E25K servers - on the fly
  • The Sun Fire Capacity on Demand program offers 'pay as you grow' computing options
  • Industry-leading virtualization, plus fault isolated Dynamic System Domains, Solaris Containers, and Predictive Self-Healing deliver a scalable consolidation platform
  • Available as a Sun System Pack, which combines the Sun Fire E25K with the right services as one offering
  • Installation services that help you fully utilize the industry's most open platform, built on open source technologies and open standards

Key Applications

  • IT infrastructure
  • Application serving
  • Compute-intensive scientific engineering
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    Sun Fire E25K Server
    Sun Fire E25K server can take on just about any high-volume, mainframe class, mission critical computing challenge with headroom left over.