With Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's suggestion that the Oracle Exadata Version 2 or Sun Oracle Database Machine may be his company's iPhone, there is an even more heighten level of interest in the industry's only database machine that runs transaction processing applications. One Oracle employee providing information on the machine is Kerry Osborne who has written a few interesting blogs on his interactions with the giant system.
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With the launch of its Sun Fire x86 cluster systems, Oracle has released several architectural white papers along with multiple performance records on these latest Sun-technology driven servers. Oracle offers tightly integrated x86 clustered systems engineered across its business software and hardware systems portfolio to deliver high performing application-to-disk solutions that can be managed and supported as a single system.
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An InformationWeek 2010 survey reported 54 percent of respondents prefer a single server vendor, to take advantage of purchasing power, knowledge, and support. Oracle is delivering just that with the launch of a complete refresh of its Sun Fire x86 cluster systems which provide high performing application-to-disk solutions capable of being managed and supported as a single system from a single vendor.
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Oracle's white paper "The New Economics of Midsize Enterprise Computing: Oracle’s Sun Systems Based on the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series" cites a recent CIO Insight magazine finding that notes increased IT spending in companies committed to cost cutting, a finding that appears to apply especially to the mid-sized enterprise. In that arena, with its typically smaller IT budgets, making purchases that offer the most efficiency and the best TCO is a critical exercise. This is where Oracle's Sun systems deliver solutions that lower total cost of ownership compared with previous generations of server platforms.
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In the absence of a single source for Sun Studio SPEC benchmarks, Vijay Tatkar has assembled an informal single source of his own that leads users to useful information on the performance of a variety of Sun solutions.
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