Are there any Sun servers that are specifically designed to help with Web tier consolidation?
KEN: The CMT-based Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers are specifically designed to more efficiently handle the massive throughput prevalent in the today’s Web tiers. With the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers, Sun looked at typical Web tier loads and decided to make the best performance server available. As part of that, Sun worked to dramatically reduce power consumption in the Web tier. Plus, the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 offer chip-level and operating system-level SSL acceleration, which is something that you certainly don’t see in competitors’ commodity servers. In addition, the Sun Fire x4100 and x4200 servers are suited for the Web tier and offer a high performance balanced architecture that is designed for lower energy consumption and high reliability.