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Executive Summary
Use of the Web is changing in fundamental ways, driven by Web 2.0 applications and the thousands of people who join the global Internet every day through a proliferation of new interactive devices. The character of applications and services is changing too. Increasingly, user's don't need to install anything, upgrade anything, license anything, subscribe to anything, or even buy anything in order to participate and transact. Web users can even interact directly with content, changing it and improving it. Intellectual property is shared, rather than locked away, and the most popular services are available free of charge. Even very small transactions are now encouraged, becoming large in aggregate. Social networking and other collaborative sites let
Serving this dynamic and growing space is becoming very challenging for datacenter operations. Services need to be able to start small and scale very rapidly, often doubling capacity every three months even as they remain highly available. Infrastructure must keep up with these enormous scalability demands, without generating additional administrative burden. Unfortunately, most datacenters are already severely constrained by both real estate and power — and energy costs are rising. There is also a new appreciation for the role that the datacenter plays in reducing energy consumption and pollution. Virtualization has emerged as an extremely important tool as organizations seek to consolidate redundant infrastructure, simplify administration, and leverage
Employing the UltraSPARC® T2 processor — the industry’s first massively threaded system on a Chip (SoC) — Sun SPARC® Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers offer breakthrough performance and energy efficiency to drive Web 2.0 infrastructure and address other demanding datacenter challenges.
