Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today further solidified its server leadership in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region with the addition of 10 new products to its Sun Fire server and Sun Ultra workstation. The newly launched products run on Solaris 10 operating system and offer up to 8x performance boost.
With this announcement, Sun has not only expanded its broad systems portfolio but also raised the bar on the industry with its growing UltraSPARC and x64 systems product portfolio -- demonstrating Sun’s commitment to be the leading provider of enterprise class systems.
“It has been our constant endeavor to improve and expand our existing product range to allow easy access to the fastest and latest innovative technology from Sun. The new systems will enable us to extend our performance lead and to give our customers the most optimized systems that can help them continue to take cost out of their datacenter” commented Chris Cornelius, managing director of Sun Microsystems Middle East.
Globally, the new servers and workstation have generated wide support from a variety of Sun customers. According to Cornelius, factors such as computing speed, longevity in datacenters, performance and support for multiple operating systems are vital to customers in the Middle East
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