Oracle has unveiled two new products in its hardware / systems line of business – the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 for enterprises and the Oracle Database Appliance for mid-sized companies.

Sharing Oracle’s hardware portfolio strategy, Adrian Jones, Senior Vice President, Hardware Sales, Asia Pacific and Japan said, “A very key focus for us is how we are going to drive this hardware business to the next level and how will we integrate software and hardware together. I have spoken to many IT managers in India and across the world. Around 70 percent of their IT budget is spent on managing IT from a legacy systems perspective and only 30 percent of their budget is spent on innovating. How can we change that? How can we change the game as far as integrating Oracle software and hardware together; along with enabling lower TCO, or power, or footprints? So, what we are trying to drive is how we can add value from an engineering level for bringing hardware and software together.”

Discussing about the SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, Adrian said, “In the last two weeks, we have launched a new chipset called T4 – the next generation SPARC Chipset – which gives 5x the performance of T3 chipset. We have introduced a new product called SPARC SuperCluster, which is the next-generation, General Purpose Engineered System designed with customers in mind who are loyal Sun Solaris SPARC customer base, that goes around the world, like many in this country in India, who want an easy migration path with Solaris and with SPARC.”

The SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 is a complete application-to-disk solution enabling consolidation of a broad spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications. Based on Oracle’s new SPARC T4 servers, the SPARC SuperCluster delivers the biggest generational performance increase in the history of Oracle’s SPARC processors, resulting in nine world record benchmarks. It supports all current and upcoming Solaris releases, thus providing customers with much needed backward and forward compatibility.

Another product unveiled by Oracle is its Database Appliance, which is an engineered system of software, servers, storage and networking, offering high availability for a wide range of custom and packaged Online Transaction Processing and Data Warehousing application databases. It protects databases from server and storage failures with Oracle Real Application Clusters and Automatic Storage Management, respectively. The Appliance provides pay-as-you-grow software licensing for Oracle Database and related software from two to 24 processor cores, thus allowing customers to align their software spend with their business growth, without the need for any hardware upgrades.

Source:http://www.informationweek.in/Software/11-10-21/Oracle_introduces_new_products_in_hardware_segment.aspx