Latest Release Adds Support for Intel 5500 and Six-core AMD Processors 
Oracle VM is server virtualization software that fully supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. The latest release is version 2.2, which features the latest Xen-based, industry-standard hypervisor, Xen 3.4, and provides performance enhancements for customers running Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, as well as six-core AMD Opteron processors.
Sun Servers Improve Performance, Ability, Stability With Less Space 
The University of Washington’s Department of Mathematics needed a hardware upgrade in order to successfully expand the computational capabilities and overall performance of Sage, an open-source computational software program. A new Sun solution was chosen with Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Fire X4540 servers, providing a powerful, compact server technology for the department’s growing open-source mathematics software engine.
How Best to Configure a System with Memory
Learn how to configure and optimize Intel Xeon Processor 5500 and 3500 series systems in a Sun blog by John Nerl. He discusses the processors’ memory subsystem and population guidelines and explains how to optimize the processors for capacity, performance and power. This detailed technical entry demonstrates that users will need to determine what aspects of these processors’ offerings are best for their specific environment and configure accordingly.
Know Your Needs, Blogger Recommends, Then Choose the Processor
The IT atmosphere is clouding up and, as it does, administrators are going to have to address certain issues, among them, which is the most suitable processor for a particular use of cloud computing. Mr. Benchmark provides a few suggestions in this direction in his blog, “What processor will fuel your first private cloud: Intel Nehalem or AMD Istanbul?”
Quick Reference Guide for Developers
This quick reference guide is intended for developers interested in a briefing on what specific capabilities of Intel Xeon processor 5500 series systems can be optimized with the Solaris Operating System. The authors provide a short overview of the Sun and Intel collaboration, and briefly highlight technical descriptions of specific features and capabilities in the two companies’ technologies. It specifically covers intelligent performance, automated energy efficiency, reliability & availability and developer tools. Numerous record-setting benchmarks complete the 39-page PDF.
Testing Out-of-box Network Performance
The blog Pure See takes a look at out-of-box performance of Intel Xeon 5500 processor series (Nehalem) on Sun servers running OpenSolaris 2009.06, SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 and Solaris 10 Update 7 using a micro-benchmark tool uperf, which is an open source, network performance tool that supports modelling and replay of various networking patterns. The main purpose of this test is to see if a system can achieve X Gbit/s or send/receive y packets/sec after the workload is characterized.
Sun Fire X4170, X4270 and X4275
Sun Fire X4170, X4270 and X4275 are part of Sun’s new family of servers based on the Intel Xeon 5500 series processors. These new servers are best suited for large enterprises as well as for sophisticated small and medium businesses (SMB).
Virtualization Saves Cooling Costs, Valuable Shipboard Real Estate
Faced with the need to manage server sprawl in shipboard datacenters; to optimize use of real estate, power and cooling in shipboard datacenters; to design redundant IT systems for current and future megaships; and to replace outdated technology, Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) implemented Sun solutions that enabled the company to realize all four goals.
Combine the Sun Blade X6270 and Intel Xeon X5560
Sun is benchmarking their Intel partnership to create an ultimate directory server with OpenSolaris, based on the Sun Blade X6270 and the Intel Xeon X5560. Fully loaded with a host of ten blades, the Sun Blade 6000 delivers a “potential 459,800 LDAP Operations per second on a fully loaded modular system,” said Mr. Benchmark, Sun blogger.
A Mixed Review but One that Finds Positive Attributes
In his ITPro review of the Sun Fire X2270 Server, Dave Mitchell finds a Nehalem-based, powerful 1U rack server that offers some unusual storage features. It earned four out of a possible six stars with its hardware spec and value winning Mitchell’s praise, while its high operational noise level and thirst for power garnered criticism.
