Most mid-size companies keep their servers for three to five years. Current economic conditions might suggest that companies hold on to their installed servers longer. But doing so could actually drain your already limited IT budget, because operational costs and other soft-dollar expenses (e.g. equipment warranties, licenses, and updates) to support your many installed servers will be high relative to the costs of consolidating servers.

With pressures to rein in budgets, a server refresh to Sun Fire servers based on the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series delivers profound performance and energy savings that businesses require today, and can cut significant costs through consolidati...