Oracle
Oracle Unfolds Sparc Roadmap, Fujitsu Boosts Sparc64 X Clocks
With Intel having refreshed its Xeon E5 and E7 chips recently and IBM getting ready to debut its Power8 chips at the end of the month, Sparc partners Oracle ...Full Article
Fusion-io Tweaks Flash To Speed Up MySQL Databases
Server flash memory maker Fusion-io has tuned up its ioMemory PCI-Express flash cards with two new features that will significantly speed up the performance of MySQL databases. The new ...Full Article
Oracle System Sales Rebound, Underpin Future Cloud
Four years ago, software giant Oracle bought Sun Microsystems and got into the systems business. Sun's business was in decline, and kept falling at a steep and steady rate ...Full Article
Shared Memory Clusters Accelerate Databases
In-memory databases are going mainstream to accelerate analytics, and if the success of SAP's HANA in-memory database is any guide, then it looks like companies will be looking at ...Full Article
Stacking Up Xeon E7 v2 Chips Against The Competition
Since Intel entered the server market formally in 1993, it has used its prowess in manufacturing and its ever-expanding sophistication in chip design to knock countless competitive chips out ...Full Article
The Math On Big NUMA Versus Clusters
Even if you are not thinking of buying a big Sparc/Solaris server, some new math by Oracle might get you to thinking about shared memory machines as opposed to ...Full Article
Corente, Responsys Acquisitions Puff Up Oracle Cloud
Oracle bought Xsigo Systems back in June 2013 so it could virtualize network links for server clusters and their storage across local area networks, and now it has snapped ...Full Article
Future Intel Xeon E7 Processors Sighted
The "Ivy Bridge" revamp of Intel's Xeon server processor line is not quite yet complete, but it is getting close. The "Ivy Bridge-EX" Xeon E7 v2 chip for machines ...Full Article
Oracle Gives Exadata Clusters Hardware Makeover
Customers who are in the middle of buying Exadata database clusters from Oracle had better put a hold on those deals and check out the new Exadata X4-2 machines ...Full Article
Server Sales Pinched in Q3 by Hyperscale Datacenters
It is not an easy time to be one of the big incumbents in the server market these days. There is competition on new fronts and an expectation from ...Full Article
