Sun Microsystems and Oracle have introduced an integrated enterprise solution - at PC server prices - built to customer specifications.
The comprehensive offering is available through Sun's Customer Ready Systems (CRS) program, in which Sun and Oracle users can deploy a complete Sun/Oracle solution.
"Sun and Oracle not only deliver a complete solution for a customer's data centre, but also provide significant cost savings," says Daryl Blundell, solutions sales manager at Sun Microsystems SA.
"The combination of the Oracle9i Database and Oracle9i Application Server Release 2 running on Sun's Sun Fire V480 provides a robust, scalable, highly performing platform. Additionally, customers who choose to have Oracle9i Database and Oracle9i Application Server installed and configured through Sun CRS will save time and money by speeding up acquisition and reducing deployment time," he says.
"This is a step closer towards our combined strategy of providing a total service to our joint customer base. We developed the blueprint and are now delivering the service at a nominal fee," adds Blundell.
"Oracle's strategy for 9i Release 2 is to make computing more powerful, scalable and secure on hardware platforms that are more cost effective," says Marc Gower, marketing director for Oracle South Africa. "Oracle sees companies storing all their data in the database - including files, e-mail, Web pages, documents, presentations and spreadsheets generated in any desktop application. This information can be stored, managed and searched within a single repository. This means that the server technology supporting this functionality must be as robust and powerful as the Oracle product. Sun's new server fulfils this need."
The blueprint comprises the industry's leading database on Sun's newest server platform, delivering a cost-effective, high-performance solution for enterprise customers.
The powerful combination of the Sun Fire V480 server and Oracle9i provides a highly scalable solution that has the higher performance, bigger memory capacity and faster throughput capability necessary to manage the ever-expanding workloads that users are facing.
Meanwhile, recent benchmark results announced for Oracle9i Application Server and the Sun Fire V480 Server showed excellent price/performance results on Sun's Solaris Operating Environment.
Three Sun Fire V480 servers with 900MHz UltraSPARC III processors running Oracle9i Application Server and a Sun Fire V880 server with 900MHz UltraSPARC III processors running the Oracle9i Database demonstrated the efficiency in handling complex and realistic application-tier workloads containing substantial business logic data.
The benchmark focused on performance at the application-tier, modelling a Fortune 100 manufacturing business. Specifically designed to test the performance of J2EE-based multi-tier enterprise applications, the ECperf benchmark enables IT managers to model business functions such as ordering and status checking, in order to enhance their effectiveness for web transactioning.
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