The core counts keep going up and up on server processors, and that means system makers do not have to scale up their systems as far to meet a certain performance level. So in that regard, it is not ...

Microprocessors are the pearls in the IT oyster. When they’re smoothly designed—like Oracle’s powerful new SPARC M6—they’re beautiful to behold. (For engineers, anyway.) In contrast, a chip that’s not ...

It is an accepted principle of modern infrastructure that at a certain scale, customization like that done by Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, or Baidu pays off. While Oracle is building its ...

Oracle has unveiled its new SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, a general purpose engineered solution that combines Oracle SPARC T4-4 servers, Oracle Exadata Storage Servers, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, ZFS ...

As a consequence to Oracle’s dedication to the SPARC platform, the company announced the new SPARC Solaris-based Exalogic Elastic Cloud T3-1B engineered system, along with a complete refresh of the ...

Oracle has extended its data center fabric to its Sparc-based Unix platforms, promising to let enterprises tie more servers and applications into the high-speed infrastructure. The fabric technology, ...