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Oracle Cranks Up The Cores To 32 With Sparc M7 Chip

Say what you will about Oracle co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison, but when the software giant bought Sun Microsystems more than four years ago, for $7.4 billion, he said ...Full Article

Oracle Boosts Exadata Database Clusters With Custom Xeon E7s

For some workloads, a big eight-socket server node with a hefty memory footprint is going to support a database workload better than four two-socket nodes in a database cluster, ...Full Article

VMware, Microsoft Rule X86 Server Virtualization

In many ways, the choice of a server virtualization technology is more important for a large enterprise than is the choice of the underlying physical server platform. While the ...Full Article

Integrated Systems Rankings Led by VCE, Cisco, Oracle

An emerging enterprise category of integrated systems that combine servers, storage and network infrastructure is led by the converged infrastructure alliance VCE, according to the latest in a series ...Full Article

Cloud, Engineered Systems Offset Oracle Software Slump

The cloud business at Oracle is now almost as large as the engineered systems business that underpins it, and both are growing considerably faster than the rest of the ...Full Article

In-Memory Boosts Oracle OLTP By 2X, Analytics By 1000X

With the lion's share of the relational database market underpinning the systems of record humming along in datacenters, Oracle cannot afford to let its rivals get too far ahead ...Full Article

Enterprises Embrace Converged Systems

The box counters at IDC are still working on a method to dice and slice how the market for converged systems is shaping up. Last year, as it was ...Full Article

Oracle Previews OpenStack-Solaris Hybrid

Software giant Oracle is not hesitant to leverage open source software when and if it suits the needs of its customers and its own income statement. The company has ...Full Article