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The Sun Enterprise 5500 server is built around Sun's high-performance Gigaplane technology and delivers tremendous throughput for compute- and I/O-intensive databases, decision support and business applications. The Sun Enterprise 5500 server increases system availability through its resilient design, dynamic reconfiguration and alternate pathing, system recovery, and proactive hardware failure prediction.
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The Sun Enterprise 5500 server is built around Sun's high-performance Gigaplane technology and delivers tremendous throughput for compute- and I/O-intensive databases, decision support and business applications. The Sun Enterprise 5500 server increases system availability through its resilient design, dynamic reconfiguration and alternate pathing, system recovery, and proactive hardware failure prediction. System management is simplified by Sun Management Center software's easy-to-use interface and management controls.

-Key Features: Up to 14 CPUs, maximum memory of 28 GB, 21 SBus cards, and 12 PCI cards.

-A general purpose server suitable for all industries. Ideal for Internet Data Centers (IDCs) and Application Service Providers (ASPs).

-Solaris Operating Environment 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, or 8.

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