This Tech Report will dive deep into the capabilities as well as challenges with open-source storage, as storage pros continue to seek information regarding this increasingly popular storage trend. 

Watch this webcast to learn how the latest blade server modules from Sun Microsystems, based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series, deliver significant performance gains and energy savings, plus an innovative approach to networking that virtualizes each 10GbE port and provides high-bandwidth connectivity to each virtual server. 

This white paper proposes a spectrum of reference configurations using Sun servers based on Intel processors, the broad range of Sun storage systems and appliances, and the VMware suite of virtualization products to configure cost-effective information systems for these businesses. 

Today, many sites are using open source solutions and platforms as a way to ensure applications can scale as needed. Understanding the challenges faced by Web 2.0 customers, Sun created Olio. This Sun BluePrints™ article describes a reasonably sized, scalable Web 2.0 deployment. 

A tsunami of change is riding into the data center on the back of virtualization. In this eBook, you'll learn where it is today, and how to keep up with management, licensing, and much more. 

In planning storage solutions for Oracle database applications, Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems offer a range of performance and scalability options, and can be configured to meet specific application requirements for capacity, performance, and reliability. 

Together, Sun and Pentaho provide integrated hardware, software, and services solutions for data warehousing and BI that provide full functionality, robust enterprise-class performance and scalability, and significantly reduced acquisition and ownership costs compared to proprietary hardware and software solutions. 

This paper focuses on business benefits achieved by consolidating and virtualizing environments with Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers. The document describes some of the challenges organizations are facing, and conveys how Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers can help organizations bring day-to-day operations and costs under control. 

Managing desktop environments across the enterprise can be challenging for many organizations. Virtualization of desktop systems is an increasingly popular solution, but requires scalability and balanced design for successful implementation. This white paper discusses the use of Sun Fire X4450 servers as a virtual desktop infrastructure platform. 

Leveraging vast engineering and field experience architecting and implementing data warehouses with the Oracle Database, Sun created a set of data warehouse solutions to help IT managers quickly select a configuration, thus reducing the risk and deployment times for data warehouse solutions. 

This paper examines how investing in new Sun servers can actually cut your data center costs. Find out how Sun’s latest technology will cut the number of servers you need. 

This data sheet highlights the features and facts for the Sun Oracle Database Machine, the world's fastest for any type of database workload, and the only database machine that runs transaction processing applications.