Oracle (Sun Microsystems) Soups Up Oracle SuperCluster by Adding “T and M-series” Microprocessors
Even as questions continued to be asked by the analyst community about Oracle Corporation’s Hardware roadmap, the Redwood, CA shores headquartered IT major, continues to beef up its Integrated Infrastructure & Platforms product offerings.
More Powerful Oracle SuperCluster
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racle’s latest upgraded product to hit the hardware market, is the EXADATA based Oracle SuperCluster, which has been made even more powerful by the addition of high performance T and M series processors in addition to the ZS3-ES storage solution. The new microprocessors are designed to provide faster running of the Oracle database which comes pre configured on the super cluster and will integrate seamlessly with the existing x86 processor. The ZS3 storage will manage storage of the “11gR2 Oracle DB and virtual machine images”, along with all other data manageability needs of the cluster system.
These augmentations to the processing speed and storage capacity of the 2 year old Oracle SuperCluster Box has added the following features to the high performance “hardware and software” engineered devices.
- Virtualization based multi-tenancy as against “Plug-able Database” (PDB) process.
- Enhances ability to handle “in-memory workloads and large vertically scaled databases”.
- Concurrent running and support of multiple database versions
- Seamless integration with existing Storage Area Networks
- Augmentation of processing power to process “application-tier workloads” in addition to Oracle Database processing.
