When you need extreme data access speeds, especially in a compact package, at a very low price, the Sun Fire X4540 storage server is your first choice. Where else can you get twelve core AMD Opteron processing and 48TB of storage in a 4RU server? By comparison, it gives you twice the capacity in half the space at half the cost of the competition. More over, the upgrade with faster Istanbul processor in the system gives it a 50% boost in data throughput rate compared to the older generation of Opteron at no extra cost to customers.The Sun Fire X4540 storage server, combined with OpenSolaris with ZFS file system, provides virtually unlimited scalability with the highest end-to-end data integrity and near-zero administration. And, you'll save as much as 50 percent of the cost and datacenter space compared to other approaches.