Whose systems are faster: Oracle's SPARC or IBM's Power?
With solid returns in for the second quarter, Larry Ellison is ready to call the purchase of Sun the best acquisition his company has ever made.
New Solaris features will help to enable Oracle's cloud database.
Oracle improves Solaris performance and cloud capabilities while also addressing the market trend towards Software-Defined Networking.
The company updates its business application server platform with Intel Sandy Bridge processors and a whole lot of RAM.
Software updates in the new Exalogic servers boost virtualization options for the Oracle engineered systems.
He may have made fun of the term "cloud" back in 2009, but today Larry Ellison is singing a different tune.
Release 3.1 of Oracle VM Server for x86 offers enhanced ease of use for virtualization administrators and improves storage availability.
Improvements to Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Sun Ray server software offer a broader range of storage options.
Oracle continues to invest in the abundant x86 intellectual property it inherited from Sun Microsystems, and with its latest x86 server releases the company is positioning them even more prominently.
Oracle moves to Linux 3.0 and adds full support for the next-generation Btrfs filesystem.
Oracle recently introduced a new line of SPARC servers and a SPARC SuperCluster based on its brand new T4 chip. Here's a rundown of the new product offerings.
Boost your virtualization, private cloud or database-backed computing with these new blade servers. You'll save space, power and deployment headaches with high-density blade servers from your favorite manufacturers.
First major release of Java middleware server in two years, advances scalability, Java EE 6 and Java SE 7 features.
The third quarter marked the slowest quarterly growth rate for servers worldwide since the first quarter of 2010, according to IDC. Among global vendors, IBM was the big winner, picking up enough share to pull even with HP.
The research firm says worldwide server shipments and revenues were up in the third quarter of 2011, driven primarily by Asia/Pacific and Eastern Europe.
At last week's Oracle OpenWorld, the OEM offered a glimpse at upcoming changes for Solaris 11 and the Oracle Enterprise Kernel for Linux.
Oracle looks to advance its server virtualization technology with new management capabilities and performance enhancements.
New virtualization release includes cloning and tunneling features, as Oracle pushes open source technology forward.
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VDI, virtualbox, server virtualization, open source software, Oracle
New version of Oracle Fusion focused Java IDE is released.
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Java, Fusion, JDeveloper, Oracle
Oracle users weigh in on how they perceive the vendor these days. How big of
an impact is its smack at Itanium having, and how are non-Oracle software shops
faring? Learn where the company remains strong and where there may be room for
improvement or concern.
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Itanium, x86 server, Oracle, buyer's guide, Red Hat
More than a year after acquiring Sun Microsystems, the question remains: Where
is Oracle going with its Sun server bounty, and where does it see the industry
heading?
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buyer's guide, Oracle, SPARC, netra, x86 server
From Oracle's acquisition of Sun to Cisco releasing blade servers to SSDs going mainstream, 2010 was an eventful year for server hardware. Revisit the 10 most notable milestones.
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IBM, Cisco UCS, Oracle, 2010, server hardware
Oracle claims the top spot for Unix with Solaris and reveals it has its eye on the Linux top spot for its homegrown Linux distro, Oracle Enterprise Linux. Red Hat and HP express a mix of consternation and amusement. But is that the right reaction?
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Oracle, Solaris, Unix server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, server os
Oracle updates Sun hardware lineup with new SPARC based servers for the cloud, delivering record setting performance.
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InfiniBand, SPARC, Sun, Oracle
What happens when two supercomputers join together and operate as one? With Red Sky/Red Mesa, a collaborative effort involving Sandia National Labs, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Oracle/Sun, we're about to find out.
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Server Blades, supercomputers, Oracle, Sun, TOP500
Thanks to Windows, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Fedora and the not-so-well-known (but no less notable) QNX, the server OS waters were choppier than usual this week. Here's some insight as to what's really going on.
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Oracle, OS, Windows, Mac OS X, Ubuntu Server
Oracle threw down the gauntlet at the high-end of the server market this week, demonstrating its commitment to Sun servers at its annual OpenWorld show in San Francisco.
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Oracle, server hardware, OpenWorld, Sun, buyer's guide
These days, the UNIX and Linux server OS landscape would play on the big screen as well as a combination Jackie Chan, James Bond, and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure movie all rolled together.
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Oracle, VMware, Novell, server os, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Has Oracle replaced Microsoft as public enemy No. 1 when it comes to enterprise operating systems? Some in the OpenSolaris community believe so.
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OS, open source, Microsoft, Oracle, OpenSolaris
Big Blue Releases its biggest Unix Server yet, a Power7 system that boasts record transaction performance.
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Oracle, IBM, POWER 7, Unix server, AIX 7
Promises to double application performance on Sparc systems every two years.
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HPC, Oracle, Sun, server hardware, Solaris
Oracle is investing in Sun's Unix and will use technologies from openSolaris as part of the next-generation release.
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Solaris, Unix server, OS, Oracle, OpenSolaris
Next week's event will tout Oracle's systems approach, Sun hardware and the benefits of private clouds.
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enterprise applications, SAP, data center, Sun, Oracle
Anyone paying attention to Oracle's acquisition of Sun had a keen sense that a culture clash was inevitable for the open source software OpenSolaris. This week's launch of Illumos reveals the time might be now.
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OpenSolaris, open source software, Sun, open source server, Oracle
With the future of OpenSolaris under Oracle unclear, a new effort aims to deliver an alternative to the popular open source software.
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OpenSolaris, open source software, Sun, Oracle, Illumos
The OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) that oversees the open-source community is threatening to disband.
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OpenSolaris, Oracle
After Oracle's acquisition, Sun Microsystems has turned a profit for the first time in more than a year.
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Oracle, server, Sun Microsystems, SPARC
True to its promise, Oracle sticks to the high-end market with massive clustering x86 servers and a unified network fabric.
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Sun, x86 servers, Intel, HPC, Oracle
Sun traditionally offered both AMD and Intel processors in its x86 server lineup. Now, it's looking like AMD's Opteron won't make the cut under Oracle's ownership.
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Intel, AMD, Oracle, Opteron, x86 servers
If you believe that virtualization is limited to Web, application and a few other "lightweight" services, think again.
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database virtualization, Oracle, virtualization, database
The Sun Ray 3 Plus client can significantly reduce power consumption.
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virtualization technologies, virtual desktop, VDI, data center, Oracle
Virtually Speaking: Following on its recent release of VirtualBox, Oracle is now refreshing the Sun Ray client and the Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
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Oracle, desktop virtualization, virtualbox, virtualization technologies
Got data? Need a database server? Chances are you'll be considering at least one of these 10 to meet your needs.
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database management, Top 10, MySQL, database, Oracle
The company announces a 10U chassis for its Sun Netra servers.
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blade server, server, Oracle, Sun Netra
Upgrade to the Netra line of blade servers for telcos makes them more suitable for mission-critical functions.
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Oracle, telcos, netra, blade server
At the Cloud Computing Expo, Microsoft and Oracle Execs shared different enterprise cloud visions.
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Enterprise, Microsoft, Cloud, cloud computing, Oracle
OS Roundup: Will the open source server OS from what was once Sun Microsystems soon be known as the project formerly known as OpenSolaris? It's beginning to seem like it.
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open source server, open source, Oracle, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems
Oracle's change tempo picks up as it changes the licensing rules for Solaris. OpenSolaris' open-source software song remains the same, however.
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Solaris, open-source software, OpenSolaris, Oracle
OS Roundup: Is Oracle closing the door on Solaris in favor of Linux servers? Recent actions imply the company is determined to drive potential customers away from the UNIX offerings it acquired from Sun and into the arms of Red Hat and other enterprise Linux vendors.
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Sun Microsystems, Solaris, Linux server, Oracle, OS
OS Roundup: When it comes to Linux server management, if your Red Hat Enterprise Linux distro isn't supported by Red Hat, is it still Red Hat Linux, or is it 'Frankenstein Linux'?
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Linux Server Management, Oracle, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat
With Sun now part of Oracle, how much has its server line up changed? Not at
all -- at least not yet. We look down the road to evaluate the changes likely to have an impact on server room management decisions.
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Sun Microsystems, Sun Oracle merger, sun servers, server room management, Oracle
With its acquisition of Sun having closed, Oracle is deciding what stays and what goes.
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Sun, Oracle, Sun Oracle merger, acquisition, integration
