Need 24/7 mission critical services, enterprise-size consolidation/virtualization solutions, and extreme scalability? But you want to avoid the cost of a mainframe? No problem. If you're not ready for the full processing power of the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server, there's an economical alternative that you should consider: the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 server. It provides the same SPARC/Solaris advantages, mainframe-class features, and datacenter reliability, at an even lower cost.

• Up to 16 dual-core, two-thread SPARC64 VI processors
• 16 dynamic system domains
• 8000 Solaris Containers per domain
• Newer, faster system interconnect

There has never been a datacenter system like the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server. It delivers SPARC/Solaris processing with mainframe-class features and datacenter reliability at open systems prices. Now you can leverage Sun SPARC server quality and Solaris 10 OS power to deliver 24/7 mission critical services, cut datacenter costs, consolidate and virtualize as you please, and move out from under your mainframes.

• Dual-core SPARC 64 VI processors or quad-core SPARC 64 VII processors
• Two versions: up to 32 or 64 processors
• 16/24 dynamic system domains
• Up to 8000 Solaris Containers per domain