AMD and Sun - Smarter Servers

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Start, Run and Grow your business with Sun software solutions running on AMD based servers.

Whether you're trying to simplify your environment, maximize performance and scalability or lower your overall IT costs, Sun software solutions powered by AMD based servers offer fast, efficient solutions.

Whether you're looking to run the Sun Solaris™ Operating System and experience dependability, developing on Java™ technology to your fullest potential, or looking for a complete development environment – Sun Studio™ - to develop high performing applications, you’ll find your best software solutions for your business, big or small, with Sun. And Sun has tested their software products across their full line of Opteron based servers, as well as those from other hardware vendors with systems based on the AMD Opteron™ processor. This means you can be assured the same reliability and performance of Sun software products on systems from Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, Dell, and others.

World-class OS reliability meets industry-leading multi-core performance

Why AMD and Sun Solaris? We’ve invested many years to ensure the AMD Opteron™ processor and platforms combine with the innovations of the Sun Solaris™ Operating System (OS) to deliver leading edge technology and solutions. The Solaris OS, ideal for mission-critical applications, features Solaris Fault Management Architecture which tracks and diagnoses system errors and failures, helping system administrators address the issues before they adversely impact business. And running the Sun Solaris OS on AMD Opteron processor based systems brings ultimate performance and price/performance records on a range of benchmarks covering a variety of x86 workloads. Why the two excel together:

  • Innovative x86 processor and platform technologies fully enabled by the leading edge, seasoned Sun Solaris operating system
  • Broad application support and assured application compatibility
  • Multi-platform compatibility – run the Solaris OS on multiple AMD processor-powered systems
  • Outstanding virtualization benefits – Sun™ xVM infrastructure addresses single server virtualization and unified management of both physical and virtual assets throughout a data center
Protect your investments... running the Sun Solaris OS on AMD Opteron processors allows for high-performing, reliable, scalable, and secure environments in today’s and tomorrow’s business environment.

To learn more about the Sun Solaris OS, visit http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/index.jsp

AMD and Java™ technology : The Flexibility of a Fully Supported Development Environment

Java™ technology offers abundant possibilities for application developers today – from mission-critical enterprise software to the newest applications for mobile devices. If you can dream it, you can probably develop it with Java technology. AMD is helping developers use Java to its fullest potential, by enhancing the AMD Opteron processor architecture to optimally support Java application development and deployment. Why Java on AMD?

  • Lower power and cooling requirements with no impact on performance
  • Supports all major operating systems and multiple hardware platforms
  • Offers easy migration from other hardware platforms to x64 platforms

To learn more about Sun's Java technology, visit http://www.sun.com/java

Sun Studio™ Development Suite on AMD Opteron Processors

Through years of close collaboration, Sun and AMD have created a powerful platform that brings together the Sun Studio™ 12 development environment with the Sun Solaris™ Operating System (OS) and AMD Opteron™ processors. Each component is tuned and optimized to take full advantage of the strengths of the others, and the result is a complete, tightly integrated, highly optimized environment for software development and deployment that offers exceptional performance, scalability, and reliability.
What Sun Studio on AMD Opteron processor based systems offers you...

  • A comprehensive, integrated environment for application development and deployment
  • Development environment optimized for AMD Opteron processor architecture
  • Compilers specifically optimized for multi-core and x86 development
  • Open platform supporting multiple operating systems in heterogeneous environments
  • Complete set of developer-dedicated resources available online

For more information, visit http://developers/sun.com/sunstudio/index.jsp

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