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Oracle unveils world's fastest SuperCluster T5-8 in India

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Oracle announced the world's fastest SuperCluster T5-8 microprocessors - a part of Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 -- the world's fastest engineered system in India.

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Oracle's new engineered systems come with pre-integrated Oracle servers, storage, networking, and software technologies that are pre-tested together and ready to run in days, not months.

Based on the world's fastest database server, ultra-fast database storage, and the world's fastest microprocessor, Oracle claims that the SPARC SuperCluster T5-8 delivers extreme performance and 10x better price performance than a comparable IBM Power7+-based solution.

Mitesh Agarwal, CTO and director-Systems Solution Consulting, Oracle India, said, "When our competitors measure IT performance in percentage, we measure our performance by 'X' - the number of times it betters the rest - and it can be seen in our latest benchmark reports."

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Oracle claims that the SuperCluster T5-8, which runs on Solaris 11, can help enterprises and SMBs to increase data center efficiency through 5x lower TCO by running Oracle Database and enterprise applications together on a single system with 5x faster time to value and 32x faster deployment of database cloud services.

The new servers are capable of running high-end database, Java and enterprise apps with increase performance, 10x better price performance than a comparable IBM Power7+-based solution.

The SuperCluster T5-8, with built-in zero-overhead virtualization and security, combined with database and infrastructure-as-a-service capabilities, is ideal for consolidation and enterprise private cloud deployments.

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According to Oracle, the SuperCluster T5-8 can handle one million secure transactions per second.

Highlighting the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster and its performance, Ganesh Ramamurthy, VP of Development, Hardware Systems Division, Oracle, asserted: "The latest SPARC 5 processor comes with 17+ world records in industry-standard benchmarking. Engineered with no single point of failure, SuperCluster T5-8 enables the high availability needed for enterprise-critical databases and applications."

He added: "Most of the enterprise customers today are besieged by infrastructure complexity and pressures to lower costs. Our new solutions help our customers to bring storage, server and network together, along with the software stack according to their requirements."

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Oracle also introduced the Oracle Platinum Services, targeted at helping customers optimize the value of their technology investments.

"Oracle Platinum Services provide the highest level of service in the industry, is delivered at no additional cost, and are exclusively available on Oracle Exadata, Exalogic and SuperCluster based on certified configurations," pointed out Ramamurthy.

With this announcement, Oracle aims to become the only company delivering the IT architecture of the future, today - hardware and software engineered to work together -- to redefine mid-range and high-end computing.

The company plans to target verticals like telecommunications, financial services, government, retail, manufacturing, education and healthcare for this new system.

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