Sun and Intel announced a broad strategic alliance in January 2007 that included joint engineering, design and marketing with the scope spanning Sun Solaris* operating system (OS), Java*, and Intel® Xeon® processors and other enterprise-class technologies. The combination of Intel's silicon innovation with Sun's world-class systems and software offers a solution optimized for enterprise customers and partners.
Sun enterprise servers
Sun offers a full portfolio of innovative systems built with multi-core Intel® Xeon® processors offering best-in-class energy efficiency, performance and virtualization¹. These enterprise systems come in a variety of form-factors including rack and blade servers and workstations.
Carrier-grade servers
Offering new levels of compute density, Sun and Intel are developing servers using high-performance Intel® Xeon® processor technology to help telecommunications companies address the challenge of increasing capacity while managing data center growth.
Software and solutions
Sun and Intel are working together to enable and optimize key Sun software products to run best on Intel® Xeon® processors. This joint software work spans the Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris operating systems (OS), Sun Studio, MySQL, and Java.