The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers, powered by the Sun UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor, are now supported by multiple PLX PEX 8548 PCIe switches for high-performance PCIe fanout and slot expansion.

Lawrence Spracklen was impressed by the SPECweb05 performance of the UltraSPARC T2 processor, as he reports in his blog, especially its performance on the 100 percent HTTPS banking workload. What he discovered was that a single-socket UltraSPARC T2 processor provides

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers can now be ordered with an X-Option or ATO option specifying a SAS 73 GB hard disk drive for an additional 15K speed for users.