Sun Microsystems today announced that the Solaris platform, including the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) and OpenSolaris, has been extended to provide performance, energy efficiency and reliability enhancements for the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series. For more information visit: http://www.sun.com/solaris/intel.

Lenovo today announced that it is using the latest Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series and Intel® Xeon® Processor 3500 Series to support advanced levels of computing performance in workstations and servers. Lenovo recently previewed its latest ThinkStation workstations based on the Intel Xeon processors at the Game Developers Conference, and Lenovo’s upcoming ThinkServer RD210 and RD220 rack servers will also offer Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series (formerly codenamed Nehalem).

Super Micro Computer, today launched a comprehensive new line of server and workstation solutions specially designed to support the Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor 5500 series (formerly codenamed Nehalem). Supermicro has started shipping its new 2U Twin2 ("Twin Squared" with four hot-pluggable DP nodes), newly invented Twin GPU 1U server/workstation, the award-winning 1U Twin(TM), SuperBlade(R), flexible Universal I/O (UIO) server, SAS2 storage systems, as well as its strong line of traditional application-optimized server solutions.

Verari Systems®, today announced that its BladeRack® 2 X-Series platforms will now support the next generation of Intel’s intelligent server processors. The combination offers customers unparalleled performance, density, and energy savings for data center consolidation efforts. Verari Systems’ VB1300 Series blade-based computing platforms offer options including the quad-core (up to 2.93GHz) Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series.

Rackable Systems today announced full support of Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series (codenamed “Nehalem”) in more than 30 server configurations.