Sun has just changed the face of the market by introducing Galaxy range of Sun Fire x64 servers which is powered by AMD Opteron processors and Solaris 10 OS. The models introduced by the company are Sun Fire X4100 M2, Sun Fire X4200 M2 and Sun Fire X4600 M2.

With on chip virtualization support, these servers have set up a new standard for energy efficiency and reliability. This can be regarded as a completely refreshed product lineup as it was in August that the company had released the Sun Fire X2100 M2 and Sun Fire X2200 M2 range of servers.

These servers have been designed for high performance computing, web infrastructure and virtualization. What they offer is performance and longevity which cannot be matched by competing x64 systems. It qualities make it an ideal candidate for a range of consolidation and virtualization projects.

Check out some of the facts:

• The Sun Fire X4100 M2 is up to 43% faster than Intel Xeon 5160-based servers from Dell, IBM and HP.
• The Sun Fire X4200 M2 defeats the best published Intel Itanium2 result by 16.5%.
• Demonstrating the advantages of the Solaris 10 OS, the Sun Fire X4100 M2 server trumps the similarly equipped IBM System X3455 server running Linux, by 32%.
• Fueled by Next-Generation AMD Opteron processors with Direct Connect Architecture, the Sun Fire X4200 M2 improves the previous generation's result by over 20% and betters the best 4-thread IBM Power5+ result by 62%. The complete list of 125+ record-breaking performance results achieved by Sun's x64 platforms can be found at: http://www.sun.com/x64/benchmarks/.

You can avail Sun Fire X4100 M2 and Sun Fire X4200 M2 servers at a price of $2,595 and $2,995 respectively. Expect the Sun Fire X4600 M2 server to be available in November.