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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Oracle have released the 2nd generation of its Oracle Database Appliance, the X3-2 version. With more compute, memory and storage capacity the X3-2 is aimed at Small to Medium business who have an Oracle environment - that don't need Exadata scale deployments.
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SuperMicro have released their Hyper-Speed line of servers aimed at High Frequency Trading applications. Utilising over-clocked, memory tuning, and additional cooling efficiencies they have gained up to 30% decrease in latency - although not at the expense of reliability.
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The RX200 S7 is a rack mount server that delivers high performance, scalability, and energy efficiency - punching well above its weight in its 1 RU chassis. This 2 socket Sandy Bridge server packs up to 768 GB of high speed memory and up to 8 SFF SAS drives - and is available for demonstration immediately!
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Fujitsu have released details on their 'Athena' server line up, featuring its own 16 core SPARC64-X processors. Full details are yet to be released by Oracle, but the 'M10' product family have been released by Fujitsu - we expect an Oracle release in the very near future.
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Canadian manufacturer Ciara Technologies have been market leaders in HPC since their inception in the early 80s. BSI supply the entire Ciara Technologies range and hold the experience to configure the correct high performance system for your business.
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HP have released a new line of servers specifically with Big Data in mind. Featuring either Xeon™ or Opteron™ server nodes in a slightly unusual 4.3 RU chassis, the SL4500 enables the use of servers nodes and 3.5" drives in the same chassis.
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At OpenWorld 2012, Oracle released details about the latest version of their Exadata system. With greatly increased main and flash memory, the X3 will allow companies to keep most of their databases in memory - rather than out on disk drives. As per other Exadata database machines Intel Xeon Sandy Bridge chips take centre stage.
Read MoreEarlier this year nVidia and Fujitsu announced that the CX400 S1 would offer high performance GPU-accelerated computing. The CX400 is already utilised for high density, compact form factor applications with half-wide, dual socket server nodes. Combining the CPU multicore power with the parallel processing cores of the GPU has given the HPC industry a new computing model.
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Have you ever considered 3rd party support for your business? Manufacturers have a reputation for charging too much for support, overstating their on site response times and failing to return calls. Sounds familiar? BSI are combating this manufacturer lethargy with their own managed global support service. Support is available for Oracle, HP, IBM, Cisco, Dell, EMC, NetApp, Fujitsu and more.
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Although unavailable until June, HP have 'pre announced' the new CPU availability in the Gen8 range. The new E5-2400 chips will be available in the DL360, DL380, ML350 and BL420c Gen8 servers, however full details are yet to be disclosed. On the Opteron chips, availability will be in the DL385p, and the BL465c.
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Oracle have released 5 new servers in line with HP, IBM and Fujitsu's latest Sandy Bridge E5-2600 offerings. There are 3 rackable and 2 blade servers new to the Oracle lineup. Rather than hold a large press conference, Oracle hosted a smaller scale webcast exclaiming that the new servers are "the industry's best x86 plaform for Oracle applications."
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