Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says its new SPARC T3-based servers, based on Sun technology, run Oracle databases faster than anything ever before. The software giant (ORCL) completed its $7.3 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems earlier this year, putting it in direct competition with hardware and server makers IBM and HP.
And now, it seems Oracle is ready for heavy-duty, high-performance action in the server market. At a December 2nd customer event, Ellison introduced the SPARC Supercluster and Solaris-based Exalogic Elastic Cloud System, highlighting plans to cut the trend of customer defections and reinvigorate revenues from Sun hardware.
Oracle’s SPARC Supercluster is billed as a complete infrastructure solution including software, servers, networking and storage, and optimized for running Oracle database RAC environments. Based on the architecture used in Oracle’s new TPC-C world record, the SPARC Supercluster solution utilizes SPARC servers, FlashFire, InfiniBand QDR, Oracle Solaris, and the ZFS Storage Appliance.
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Oracle also announced Oracle Exalogic Cloud T3-1B, a new model that aims to bring the strengths of SPARC Solaris servers to Oracle Exalogic Cloud-engineered systems. The new product is designed for large-scale, mission-critical deployments. Oracle tuned the hardware to run Java and non-Java applications.
The Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud T3-1B combines SPARC servers running Oracle Solaris 11 Express with InfiniBand-based I/O fabric, the Oracle WebLogic Server, and other enterprise Java-based Oracle middleware products. Oracle said it’s optimized for multi-threaded applications, making way for customers to see increased performance for multi-threaded enterprise Java software, such as Oracle WebLogic Server.
“With the SPARC Solaris model of Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, customers who have standardized on SPARC Solaris can easily obtain the extreme benefits of Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and consolidate their data center while leveraging their existing investment and skills,” said Hasan Rizvi, senior vice president of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
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