The SPARC Enterprise T5220 server by Sun Microsystems is the perfect hardware technology for businesses with serious server-based workloads. The SPARC Enterprise T5220 system of servers is designed for secure web-scale and virtualized computing as well as data-intensive applications, and it keeps operations running smoothly with maximum efficiency. The T5220 is the fastest server designed for virtualization and has an open platform built on open-source technologies and open standards. These integrated, open-source, and no-cost virtualization technologies are offered with a choice of Solaris Containers and Logical Domains. It comes with a four-core bit Sun UltraSPARC T2 “system on a chip” processor rated at 1.6 GHz, which brings together elements usually associated with specific chips. The UltraSPARC T2 1.6 GHz increases the performance, reliability, and energy efficiency of the SPARC Enterprise T5220 server by bringing virtualization, processing power, security, accelerated memory access, networking, and floating point units together in one. With such integration, the SPARC Enterprise T5220 uses fewer parts, which helps it deliver reliably with a reduced risk that any of the components will fail. This server stands out in its field with integrated on-chip cryptographic acceleration and 10-Gigabit Ethernet-enabled secure computing at wire speed. Additionally, the SPARC Enterprise T5220 Server comes with a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage interface and 8GB of fully buffered ECC RAM with the capacity for up to 128GB of RAM. These features give the SPARC Enterprise T5220 Server unparalleled performance with maximum space and energy efficiency, great I/O, and internal storage expandability. The T5220 effectively delivers the best performance in the industry per watt. This server from Sun Microsystems is also rack mountable. Thanks to the 64-thread UltraSPARC T2 1.6 GHz processor, this SPARC server does very well on performance per watt measurement at less than two watts per thread of power. This helps the T5220 server use roughly one-tenth to one-thirtieth the power consumption of competing servers. In one single piece of silicon, this server packs up to eight cores and provides 64 virtual systems in a single box. With so many isolated domains per server, you deploy more than 1,250 secure virtual domains per rack for ultimate server virtualization and consolidation. All this power and functionality is packaged in a 2RU form factor, which has network connectivity and highly expendable internal storage. In addition, it has 4 MB of L2 cache for improved performance and support for RAID 0 and RAID 1 data security. The T5220 comes with a single 146GB hard drive with the capacity for two four-Gigabit Ethernet ports and the embedded Integrated Lights Out Manager processor for remote management. In addition to consolidation and virtualization, the SPARC Enterprise T5220 server’s key applications include streaming media, security applications, Java application servers, OLTP databases, network infrastructure, SOA and business integration platforms, and multithreaded floating-point applications best utilized by manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and financial services industries.