Though the importance of performance is indisputable, fast platforms alone are not enough to respond to the continually changing demands of today’s high-pressure, globally competitive, cost-sensitive business and technical environments, or to respond to rising power consumption and other constraints in the datacenter. Sophisticated system, resource, and workload management tools are needed to harness the power of every system’s performance, flexibility, and availability. Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise servers, with their complement of management tools, are designed specifically as general-purpose application, database, data warehousing, and consolidation servers. They are especially suited to address the needs of enterprise datacenters, with a goal of increasing performance and flexibility while consolidating systems to reduce datacenter costs and complexity.