Last week (28/08/2013), Oracle unveiled details of the SPARC M6 cpu, with IBM in its crosshairs. Reaction is positive from those with memory hungry compute needs. Scalable to 96 sockets, the SPARC M6 should hold the attention of large corporations and governmental institutions.
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Oracle have released their new x86 virtualization appliance, merging servers, storage and networking together into one stack. The Virtual Compute Appliance enables rapid, repeatable software-defined infrastructure deployment.
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Whether you want to implement virtualization for branch office, consolidate and optimize application environments, or find a simple and cost effective way to manage increasing loads, vShape is the right solution for your business.
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With the launch of the single socket, 16-core Fujitsu M10-1, it's now possible to build an incredibly powerful four node Oracle Cluster at a huge saving. One of the beauties of Oracle Standard Edition is that you can deploy Oracle RAC (Real Application Clustering) for free on the condition that your total CPU count doesn't exceed four.
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Solarflare have released their Flareon™ 10GbE PCIe 3.0 range of server adaptors, the latest in low latency advanced ethernet technology. The SFN7122F is powered by an all new controller silicon, enhancing your application performance with the highest message rates and lowest jitter.
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HP have released two servers with the E3 Xeon 'Haswell' line of CPUs from Intel. The first is the ProLiant DL320e Gen8 V2, which is remarkable in it's low depth form factor - it's only 15 inches deep and is therefore deployable in a multitude of ways. The second is the ProLiant ML310e Gen8 V2 and is aimed at the 'server under the desk' small business.
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In the heart of the City of London resides our Oracle Authorised Solution Centre. This state of the art centre is available to our clients as an invaluable resource. The Solution Centre offers proof of concept, technical demonstrations, performance benchmarks, product evaluations - as well as hands on or remote demonstrations.
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Here at Business Systems International we pride ourselves on being committed to only the highest performance hardware. We're pleased to announce a new partnership in the form of Gnodal - providing the highest density and lowest latency network switches.
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Here we have one of the fastest high frequency trading servers, the CIARA Technologies ORION HF320. We go hands on with the first HF320 in Europe which we will have available for demonstration.
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Oracle have released their SPARC T5 processors and associated servers, together with the M5 processor and M5 server lineup - replacing the current Fujitsu made M Series. SPARC M5 processor is exactly the same as the M4 processor, only the name has changed to align with the T5.
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Fujitsu are well known as the manufacturer of the Oracle SPARC M-Series range of servers. Less known is the fact that Fujitsu also manufacturer a range of X86 Sandy Bridge servers that are Solaris certified and can be pre-bundled with Oracle 24/7 support.
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The long awaited SPARC T5 generation of processors should be announced this week by big red. Oracle claim almost immediate availability of the hardware, which is a big plus. They're also claiming that the T5 is the fastest processor in the world for database. We'll wait to see the TPC benchmarks before passing judgement.
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