For the most part, the Oracle Sun Fire X4170 found favor with the reviewer for V3.co.uk, Alan Stevens, who pronounced the server " ... A good choice for companies looking for maximum performance from a 1U package," and a prime candidate for virtualization service. The X4170 compares quite favorably with its chief competition, the HP ProLiant DL360 G6 and the Dell PowerEdge R610. Stevens gives the Oracle Sun product such high marks in part because " ... it's a dual-processor server capable of accommodating the same range of dual-core and quad-core Xeon 5500 Nehalem chips."
Oracle has been named a leader in predictive analytics and data mining (PA/DM) from independent analyst firm Forrester Research. In "The Forrester Wave: Predictive Analytics And Data Mining Solutions, Q1 2010,” Oracle Data Mining with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 were evaluated. Senior Analyst James G. Kobielus writes that the company positions its PA/DM portfolio as a key enabler for both traditional data mining as well as the new world of real-time decision automation, content analytics, and social network analysis
Step-by-step instructions have been published for using the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System (release 2008.Q4) as a repository for the PostgreSQL database for the ADempiere open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) application. Penned by Praneet Tiwani, the technical article provides all the configuration details as well as installation of ADempiere and test procedures.
Pick to Order (PTO) configurations are available for Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 Server with new 2.75GHz SPARC64 VII Processor. The newly enhanced server also offers a new 667MHz DIMMs X-option. The M3000 is only available in PTO configurations, therefore upgrading from the 2.52GHz processor to the 2.75GHz processor requires purchasing a new 2.75GHz system. Trade-in allowances for Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are available for up to 15%.
Although it was never intended by its developers to be used as a benchmarking tool, the dd utility -- a simple, basic utility -- is nevertheless frequently used as a sequential workload generator for quick tests, writes Lisa Noordergraaf in the blog "Pitfalls of Benchmarking Flash with dd(1M)." She recommends vdbench as an alternative.
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