Sun is taking a leaf out of mainframe suppliers' books by offering users the ability to add capacity at the flick of a switch. This month, the company will introduce a new way of paying for capacity on its high-end E10000 servers, which will allow users to buy systems with large numbers of processors, while paying upfront only for the processors they actually use.
Sun is taking a leaf out of mainframe suppliers' books by offering users the ability to add capacity at the flick of a switch. This month, the company will introduce a new way of paying for capacit...
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