Oracle Breaks the Ice with the World’s Fastest General Purpose Engineered System – SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 following the release of Oracle Database Appliance

Oracle Transforms Datacenter Dynamics by Combining The Latest In Extreme Compression and Extreme Parallelism

[Redwood Shores, California - September 29, 2011] In the weeks leading up to the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 scheduled to run from Oct 2-6 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, Oracle’s Chief Executive Officer, Larry Ellison and Executive Vice President, John Fowler, have had to make public quite a few technologies.

Showcased on the 22^nd of September, Oracle’s New Database Appliance caters the market for Mid-Size Businesses that preferinvesting in plug-and-play technology to gain a saving on the TCO. For such, Oracle Database Appliance saves the hassle of investing in multiple vendors especially when it comes to the Asian-Pacific Region requiring one-time licensing that can lead to as many upgrades as desired by the Business Owners. For businesses that are much more concentrated in capacity whether in HR or computing power, SPARC T4-Based Engineered System unveiled on the 29^th of September promises to deliver 2x the performance and half the cost of HP and IBM.

In simpler words, SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 is an attribution of smart consolidation delivering extreme performance and scalability, supporting up to four computer nodes and four terabytes of memory in a single rack, provisioned to scale to an eight-rack system. Outdoing IBM POWER7-based systems and HP Superdome 2, SPARC SuperCluster T4-4:

ü  Is a complete application-to-disk solution ideal for consolidating a broad spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications, offering outstanding efficiency with a 10:1 server consolidation ratio for heterogeneous database, middleware and Web applications;

ü  Supports all current Oracle Solaris applications and supports the latest release of Oracle Solaris, as well as the upcoming release of Oracle Solaris 11, thereby providing both forward and backward compatibility;

ü  Offers superior performance and economics for Oracle Database 11g, with built-in storage compression and security via storage encryption;

ü  Combines Oracle’s SPARC T4-4 server running Oracle Solaris with the optimized database performance of Oracle Exadata storage cells, the accelerated middleware and application processing of the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software, and offers internal shared disk storage via Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage 7320 Appliance;

ü  Leverages Oracle’s unique ability to engineer and integrate key infrastructure components to help reduce integration costs, accelerate enterprise deployments, and simplify maintenance;

ü  Benefits from solutions released in sync that include Oracle Optimized Solution for People Human Capital Management on SPARC SuperCluster (offering a payroll processing power 3x faster than IBM and HP) and Oracle Optimized Solution for WebCenter Content on SPARC SuperCluster (offering a cost saving by 3x  with less complexity than IBM’s Content Management).

One of the highlights at the Oracle OpenWorld 2011, SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 is quite promising particularly to the existing SPARC Customers providing a hundred percent compatible migration upward. “We chose to test Oracle’s SPARC SuperCluster for performance improvement of our current data warehouse system and consolidation of sparse Oracle databases through implementation of RAC features,” said Aldo Chiaradia, CIO, Benetton Group S.P.A. “Our heaviest operation is data warehouse loading and with the SPARC SuperCluster, we are expecting a huge improvement of at least 30 percent.”

“Oracle is changing the dynamics of the datacenter by combining the industry’s best technology – the SPARC T4 processor, Oracle Solaris 11, Oracle Exadata storage, and the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud software – into a versatile, secure, general purpose engineered system,” said John Fowler, Executive Vice President, Systems, Oracle. “Oracle’s SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 is an ideal platform for application and server consolidation that demonstrates how engineered systems can deliver huge performance at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions.”

Supporting Resources

• Datasheet: Oracle’s SPARC SuperCluster T4-4

• Podcast: Oracle SPARC SuperCluster

• Oracle’s SPARC T4 Servers

• Oracle Solaris on OTN

• Connect with Oracle Solaris via Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

• Oracle Hardware on Facebook, Twitter

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