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Helping Small and Medium Businesses to grow and prosper

Our portfolio of products and solutions for small and medium businesses (SMBs) is larger than ever – with innovative technologies that combine high performance, energy-efficiency and scalability – to help your business to get ahead of its competitors. SMBs can have the same enterprise-class IT solutions that power some of the world’s largest organisations – but at SMB price levels.

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Two new Sun Fire x86 servers, powered by the latest generation Intel Xeon processor 5400 series, offer exceptional price/ performance, expandability, Web 2.0 services, and critical back office computing workloads.

Sun featured products: Sun Fire X2250 Server - Sun's most compact and powerful entry-level server, Sun Fire X4250 Server - run large memory-demanding, disk-intensive applications more efficiently, and the Sun Fire X2100 M2 Server - easy to scale, easy to manage, and easy on the budget.

Award Winning Products

ServerWatch 2008 Product Excellence Award

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 Server – Midrange Server

eWEEK Excellence Awards

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 Server – Infrastructure Hardware

InfoWorld Products of the Year

Sun Fire X4200 – Best Server
Sun Fire X4500 – Best Storage Server
Sun Fire X4600 M2 – Best High-Performance Server
Solaris 10 – Most Innovative Server OS

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Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers

Who offers more for Small and Medium Businesses?

Sun technology delivers world-record performance, exceptional energy-efficiency and the scalability to grow with your business:

Affordable Systems – Extreme Performance – High Scalability

Sun Fire X4600 server – upgradeable to 32 cores, for high scalability – but occupies only 4U
CoolThreads servers – up to 128 hardware threads in a 1U space – virtualisation and security encryption capabilities, at no extra cost
Sun offers the only blade servers that support multiple processor blades simultaneously – for speed and scalability
Solaris Containers – easy scalability for web and application virtualisation

Better Security

Enhanced security, built-in – Solaris 10 OS
Security-hardened Apache web server – Solaris 10 OS
Robust Java security
CoolThreads servers integrate cryptographic acceleration directly onto the chip – for high performance and low-cost. Sun is unique in offering this built-in encryption processing

Designed for the Web

Higher performance – in less space and with lower energy consumption
Servers have 4 GbE, as standard – for high-bandwidth connectivity
Security-hardened – for protection against hackers and viruses
Sun is unique in providing pre-optimised versions of the most common software for web computing – CoolStack – at no extra charge

Sun's strategic alliances

Our strategic alliances with Microsoft, Intel and AMD – along with our acquisition of MySQL – mean we can offer a range of industry-standard options that is unmatched by our competitors. With competitive pricing, attractive financing options, fast delivery and a choice of Windows, Linux or Solaris – Sun’s free, open source operating system – Sun is the choice for a growing number of SMBs. Over the past two years, 70% of all free trials provided by Sun have been delivered to SMBs.

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