Oracle unveils tech hardware

data centre products, as the world's number three software maker moves into the hardware market, writes FNN Online.

At the yearly Oracle technology and user conference in San Francisco, Ellison publicised the benefits of comparable computing, and revealed the most up-to-date version of the company's SPARC Solaris computer.

He also revealed a new Exalytics data analysis machine.

Oracle VM Server for SPARC, version 2.1, was released in June, and allows up to 128 virtual machines to run on one system, notes InformationWeek.

It also enables live migration of VMs, Dynamic Resource Management so mission-critical workloads get CPU priority over less critical ones, and support for more virtual networks per domain.

According to Network Computing, the Exalytics system combines hardware and software, both developed by Oracle, into a system that analyses data in relational databases, multidimensional data and unstructured data “instantaneously” because the machine stores data in the computer's memory, Ellison said.

The system includes 1TB of digital random access memory (DRAM), but with compression, it can store 5TB to 10TB of raw data, he added.