Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems have enhanced their Sparc Enterprise M3000 server with the new 2.75GHz Sparc64 VII processor and faster system memory modules, which they claim to boost the performance by up to 23% than the previous generation.
In addition, the server’s increased performance coupled with the Solaris operating system provides customers with suitable platform to handle enterprise applications including database, BIDW, ERP and CRM, the companies said.
Noriyuki Toyoki, corporate vice president of Fujitsu, said: SPARC Enterprise M3000 is the best-suited entry-level server for all-around system use. It offers high performance and RAS features suited for mission-critical systems in a green form factor, compact and power efficiency.”
According to Fujitsu, the M3000 has many of the same features as the mid-range and high-end Sparc64-based Sparc Enterprise servers such as mainframe-class reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) at an entry-level price.
The companies claim that the M3000 helps customers to consolidate multiple entry-level servers into a 2U chassis and realise savings in physical space, energy consumption and cooling needs in their datacentres. In addition, it also improves the ratio of energy consumption to application throughput by up to 13% compared to the previous version.
The SPARC Enterprise M3000 is a single socket, entry-level server and is part of Fujitsu and Sun’s comprehensive line of servers that includes the Sparc Enterprise M4000, M5000, M8000 and M9000 servers.
Andy Mendelsohn, senior vice president of database server technologies at Oracle, said: Oracle welcomes the introduction of the enhanced Sparc Enterprise M3000 server, which is a powerful example of the over-20-year collaboration between Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems.
“We performed extensive testing of Oracle Database 11g Release2 on Sparc Enterprise M3000 servers running Solaris 10. Customers can be assured that the Sparc Enterprise M3000 server runs Oracle Database 11gR2 with high performance and reliability at lower cost.”
