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Later today Sun will announce three new systems utilizing AMD Opteron processors for enterprise level consolidation and storage applications. The new systems are all based on DDR1-ready dual-core Opteron processors. In total, Sun is launching one new blade system and two new 4U rackmount systems.

Sun's new Blade 8000 system is a large rackable blade server that Sun calls a modular blade system and one that Sun says it is the only one to be producing of this type. DailyTech had the chance to talk to David Lawler, Sun's director of product definition and strategy for the Systems Group, about the new servers. According to Lawler, the Sun Blade 8000's actual blades are separated from its network I/O module. Having the actual blade unit separate from the network I/O unit helps keep the system running in an event of a failure in a blade or a network module.