Sun Micro wins award

Sun Microsystems has announced that the Sun Fire T2000 server has won the 'Most Innovative Server' award in the systems category in InfoWorld's 2006 Technology of the Year honours.

The Sun Fire T2000 with unique CoolThreads technology is the industry's first eight core, 32-thread processor that packs the performance of a rack of servers onto a single chip.

InfoWorld's annual 'Technology of the Year Awards' identify significant technologies of the past year that promises to make the greatest impact on enterprise IT strategies. It honours the products that best exemplify the implementation of those technologies.

"Our annual awards highlight progress across nearly the entire enterprise IT landscape," said Steve Fox, InfoWorld's editor-in-chief. "InfoWorld's 2006 Technology of the Year Award winners represent the best products defining, and often redefining, the role of IT and resulting business impact."

According to Sun Microsystems, Sun Fire T2000 server is the first server designed from the ground up for Internet workloads and for running current and next-generation web, application and distributed database systems.

Based on the UltraSPARC(R) T1 processor, code named Niagara, these systems have achieved eight world-record benchmarks and have set a new industry standard for performance, energy and space efficiency.