16/02-11   -   Press releases

Oracle Announces New Sun Fire x86 Clustered Systems

Enhances Enterprise Systems for Highly Virtualised and Private Cloud Deployments

News Facts

- Bolstering its enterprise-class x86 blade and rackmount servers for highly virtualised and private cloud deployments, Oracle today announced enhanced Sun Fire x86 clustered systems.

- Oracle’s Sun Fire x86 clustered systems posted five new world records(1), demonstrating enterprise leadership and superior performance for Java applications.

- Over a three-year period, Oracle’s virtualised x86 systems with Oracle Linux and Oracle VM deliver up to 48 percent better TCO than HP with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and VMware.

- Oracle’s Sun Fire x86 clustered systems have set more than 30 world records to date, highlighting Oracle’s industry-leading performance for decision-support and online transaction processing databases, business applications, and IT infrastructure running on operating systems including Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux.

- Only Oracle’s comprehensive portfolio of x86 systems is engineered with its business software and hardware to deliver complete application-to-disk solutions.

- Oracle’s application-to-disk solutions can be managed and supported as a single system with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g for simplified management.

- For faster deployment, Oracle’s x86 systems ship pre-installed with Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux and Oracle VM, and provide a completely tested and supported virtualised environment for Oracle Software, including Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications.

- Oracle’s Sun Fire x86 systems are part of Oracle´s complete portfolio of cloud-ready software and hardware products, supporting Oracle´s commitment to provide advanced cloud-computing infrastructure to help reduce the cost and complexity of running enterprise software.

Supporting Quote

- “Oracle delivers differentiated enterprise-class solutions for the x86 server market with its integrated application-to-disk approach and unique end-to-end Oracle Premier Support capabilities," said Ali Alasti, vice president of hardware engineering, Oracle. “With outstanding performance and operational efficiency, these new systems combine with Oracle software to provide a rock-solid foundation for enterprise consolidation and private cloud deployments."

Supporting Resources

- Oracle’s Sun Fire x86 Clustered Systems
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/x86/index.html

- Oracle Benchmarks
http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/performance-scalability/index.html

- Oracle x86 Rack Servers: Optimized for Rapid Deployments and Operational Efficiency White Paper
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/x86/idc-x86-rack-servers-306298.pdf

- Data Center Efficiency with Oracle x86 Blade System Solutions
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/blades/idc-datacenter-efficiency-blades-193056.pdf

- Oracle’s Sun Fire X2270 M2 Architecture White Paper
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/systems-hardware-architecture/sfx2270m2arch-163853.pdf

- Oracle’s Sun Fire X4170 M2 and Sun Fire X4270 M2 Architecture White Paper
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/systems-hardware-architecture/sfx4170m2-x4270m2arch-163860.pdf

- Sun Blade Modular Systems White Paper
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/systems-hardware-architecture/sb6000-architecture-163892.pdf

- Oracle Premier Support
http://www.oracle.com/us/support/premier/index.html

- Oracle InfraRed blog (http://blogs.oracle.com/infrared/), Twitter(http://twitter.com/ORCL_infrared), LinkedIn(http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3508552&trk=anet_ug_hm), Facebook(http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage/#!/pages/Oracle-Infrared/127356583986513?v=wall)


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Footnotes

(1) More details on new performance records available at http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/performance-scalability/sun-x86-systems-gateway-082396.html