Oracle launches next generation servers

Oracle on the just concluded Oracle Open World conference held in San Francisco. This event is one of the most important educational and networking event of the year for Oracle technologists, customers, and partners and is dedicated to helping businesses optimize existing systems and understand upcoming technology breakthroughs. Oracle is a leading computer technology company committed to providing relevant and innovative solutions that meet the needs of its consumers so to transform their enterprises and improve operational agility and effectiveness. Below is a press release from the company.

In efforts to continuously come up with more innovative solutions in cloud computing, Oracle has just launched its two systems - SPARC M6-32 server and Oracle Super Cluster M6-32 engineered system at the just concluded Oracle Open World which took place in San Francisco USA. The two systems are set to increase business IT capacity and add capabilities on the fly as a result of their better price and performance as compared to other rival solutions in the market. Speaking at the Oracle world event, John Fowler, executive vice president at Oracle said. “The SPARC M6-32 server and SuperCluster M6-32 fundamentally change data center economics by combining high end computing performance and availability with the cost efficiency of entry level servers.” The massive memory of the SPARC M6-32 combined with its comprehensive, zero-overhead, no-cost virtualization capabilities; make it an ideal consolidation platform for businesses in terms of mission-critical workloads. According to Mr. Fowler, the SPARC M6-32 can run entire business applications and databases in memory and can deliver up to 7x better database performance when using in-memory computing, compared to standard practices.
Supporting ResourcesOracle’s SPARC ServersOracle SuperClusterOracle SolarisOracle Hardware on Facebook, TwitterConnect with Oracle Solaris via Facebook, Twitter and LinkedInAbout OracleOracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.About Oracle SuperClusterOracle SuperCluster engineered systems are Oracle’s fastest and most scalable engineered systems. Oracle SuperCluster combines Oracle’s SPARC servers running Oracle Solaris 11 with the database optimization of Oracle Exadata Storage Servers, the accelerated processing of Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software, the high throughput and availability of Oracle’s ZFS Storage Appliance, and unified systems management of Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c. They are pre-tested and optimized to run Oracle Database, Java and enterprise applications unchanged while accelerating database and Java performance by up to 10x compared to a build-it-yourself configuration. Part of Oracle’s Engineered Systems family, Oracle SuperCluster demonstrates Oracle’s unique ability to innovate and optimize at every layer of technology to simplify data center operations, drive down costs, and accelerate business innovation.About Oracle OpenWorldOracle OpenWorld San Francisco is the most important educational and networking event of the year for Oracle technologists, customers, and partners. This information technology event is dedicated to helping businesses optimize existing systems and understand upcoming technology breakthroughs. The conference, which is expected to draw more than 60,000 attendees from over 145 countries, offers more than 2,500 educational sessions, 400 product demos, exhibitions from 500 partners and customers showcasing applications, middleware, database, server and storage systems, industries, management and infrastructure – all engineered for innovation. Oracle OpenWorld 2013 is being held September 22-26 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco. For more information, to register, or to watch Oracle OpenWorld keynotes, sessions and more live, please visit www.oracle.com/openworld. Join the Oracle OpenWorld discussion on Twitter, Facebook and the Oracle OpenWorld Blog.TrademarksOracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.Footnote(1) Comparison of two IBM Power 795 servers, total of 32 4.0 GHz POWER7 processor chips, 256 cores, 16 TB main memory, Storwize V7000 Unified 1,376 TB HDD storage, FlashSystem 820 86 TB flash storage (Total List $13.8M) to Oracle SuperCluster M6-32 high performance storage configuration 32 3.6 GHz SPARC M6 processors, 384 cores, 16 TB main memory, Exadata Storage Servers with high capacity disks and flash storage, Oracle ZFS 80 TB storage ($3.2M). SuperCluster M6-32 system has an estimated 19% higher performance than the IBM Power 795 system in a comparison based on analysis of standard benchmarks. Result: 5x price/performance advantage.