The Sun Fire B100s Blade Server, hosted in the Sun Fire B1600 Intelligent Shelf (a 16 slot, 3U intelligent shelf), offers integrated Gigabit Ethernet switch fabric and fully redundant components, and 5x server density over typical one-processor 1U servers. The Sun Fire Blade Platform enables organizations to accommodate growth, uses computing resources more efficiently, reduces time-to-market by shortening deployment cycles, increases service availability, and lowers operational cost. Featuring integrated switching and support of up to two Switches and System Controllers, SPARC and x86 Blade Servers, specialty load balancing, and SSL blades, the Sun Fire Blade Platform provides an agile platform that can easily respond to changing business requirements.