Oracle and Fujitsu Enhance SPARC Enterprise M-Series Servers

Oracle and Fujitsu revealed the improved SPARC Enterprise M-Series server product line with a new processor SPARC64 VII+. Oracle's (News - Alert) Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers provide an always-on platform that is ideal for system consolidation and they offer the highest level of investment protection.

The enhanced SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers deliver increased performance, improved manageability and maximum investment protection and is jointly designed and manufactured by Oracle and Fujitsu (News - Alert). For customers running mission-critical applications, including Oracle Applications and Fujitsu, the SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers run Oracle Solaris and deliver extreme reliability and scalability, and tightly engineered performance optimizations. The improved performance of the SPARC Enterprise M-series servers will also help customers running other applications.

“The enhanced Oracle and Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise M-Series server line represents our commitment to protecting our customers' investments by engineering high-performance systems for mission-critical deployments that can be periodically and easily upgraded," said John Fowler, Oracle executive vice president of Systems, in a press release. "Oracle delivers optimized systems, engineered from application-to-disk, to provide customers with best-in-class performance, availability and simplified management.”

Delivering up to 20 percent more performance, the new SPARC64 VII+ processor provides increased clock speed of up to 3.0 GHz and double the size of the L2 cache up to 12MB. For applications that need to be "always on,” the SPARC Enterprise M-series servers with Oracle Solaris provide mission-critical reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS). They also protect customer hardware and software investments with easy in-system processor and system board upgrades.  

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