Oracle touts high demand for Sparc systems

BANGALORE, INDIA: Oracle's midrange Sparc T4 servers have proved to be the fastest ramping server products for the company, which has shipped over thousand such servers so far.

The Sparc T4 servers, with Oracle Solaris, have been adopted by more than 800 customers across industries including Indian customers such as TCS and Wipro. Other customers to adopt this include BBVA, Core Services Corporation, Emerson, iXtend, Motorola Solutions, Portugal Telecom, Qualcomm, SirsiDynix, SkyOnline, SuperValu Telefonica de Espana, United Telephone Mutual Aid Corporation and Ziggo BV. 

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“Oracle’s SPARC T4 servers with Oracle Solaris provide a combination of performance, scalability and security that’s resonating with customers across the globe,” said Masood Heydari, senior vice president, hardware development, Oracle. “There’s tremendous momentum behind our SPARC T4 line and it’s clear that our ability to engineer hardware and software together is making SPARC T4 the clear choice for next generation data centers.”

Designed to power enterprise and mission-critical applications on Oracle Solaris 10 or 11, the Oracle SPARC T4 enterprise server are engineered with Oracle's complete software stack to enable customers consolidate multiple database and application tiers onto a single server, says a release.

“Oracle SPARC T4 server delivers higher performance over its predecessor as well as over other competing products” said Kapil Sood, Vice President, Systems, Oracle India.”Our customers can consolidate multiple mission critical database and application tiers onto a single server thus significantly reducing system complexity and lowering the total cost of ownership”

With Oracle Solaris 11 cloud OS, Sparc T4 server customers can take advantage of cloud-scale life cycle management. The SPARC T4 servers are also available as part of Oracle Optimized Solutions.