A three dimensional fly-by demo of the Sun Blade 6000 chassis is available. The demo shows Oracle's flexible, eco-efficient Sun Blade 6000 chassis that integrates Oracle's x86 and SPARC server blade modules with high-capacity networking and storage blades to support a wide range of application environments.
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Oracle calls its Sun Fire X4470 M2 Server the "best virtualization server for business applications," especially as a consolidation platform for mixed workloads. The Sun Fire X4470 M2 offers a 35% lower TCO than comparable four-socket HP or IBM systems which, incidentally, it has beaten in standard industry benchmarks. The Sun Fire X4470 M2, that can be consistently and efficiently managed with Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager, delivers superior performance and lower power consumption with its integrated Sun FlashFire technology and up to 1 TB of low voltage memory. The key specifications of the Sun Fire X4470 M2 Server include:
Two or four Intel Xeon processor E7-4800 processors
Up to 64 DIMMs with a maximum memory of 1 TB
Up to six 2.5" disk drive bays for HDDs or SSDs
Up to four Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe cards
Hot-swappable disks, cooling fans, and power supply units
Optimized to run Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, and Oracle VM
This server is also certified to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Windows Server, and VMware.
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With the release of Oracle Linux 6.1 users can enjoy the benefits of improved IRQ balancing; reduced lock contention across the kernel (improves performance on large NUMA systems); improved network I/O via receive packet steering and RDS improvements; and improved virtual memory performance. In addition to these improvements, uses will discover numerous driver updates and both a 32 bit and a 64 bit Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. As was the case with the previous release, the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (kernel-uek-2.6.32-100.34.1.el6uek) is installed and enabled by default. If you prefer to maintain full kABI compatibility, the Red Hat compatible Kernel (kernel-2.6.32-131.0.15.el6) is installed as well and can be selected manually at boot up time or by changing the default in the GRUB configuration file.
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With the release of Oracle Linux 6.1 users can enjoy the benefits of improved IRQ balancing; reduced lock contention across the kernel (improves performance on large NUMA systems); improved network I/O via receive packet steering and RDS improvements; and improved virtual memory performance. In addition to these improvements, uses will discover numerous driver updates and both a 32 bit and a 64 bit Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. As was the case with the previous release, the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (kernel-uek-2.6.32-100.34.1.el6uek) is installed and enabled by default. If you prefer to maintain full kABI compatibility, the Red Hat compatible Kernel (kernel-2.6.32-131.0.15.el6) is installed as well and can be selected manually at boot up time or by changing the default in the GRUB configuration file.
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Demand for high-end non-x86 servers during the first quarter helped HP and IBM to retain their position as first and second in server revenue, respectively, as determined by an IDC survey and reported by Jeffrey Burt writing in eWeek. Burt writes that, for Unix servers, Q1 was the first in the past 11 quarters to show year-on-year revenue growth, which increased 12.5 percent over the same period last year. IBM, HP and Oracle all showed improvement in their Unix server revenue numbers. Worldwide Unix revenues grew to $2.6 billion, which represented 21.8 percent of all quarterly server revenue, Burt reports. He notes also that revenue for IBM’s System z servers running z/OS grew for the third consecutive quarter, increasing 41.1 percent over the first quarter in 2010, to $1 billion, which represents 8.8 percent of overall server revenue.
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