Oracle Revives its Hardware Division and Telecommunications Takeover

With Oracle having recently purchased Tekelec (News - Alert), there is something evidently clear: it is planning a systematic takeover of the telecommunications industry. In 2012 up until today, Oracle has acquired Viture, Skire, SeletMinds, Instantis, DataRaker, Eloqua, Acme Packet (News - Alert), Nimbula and now Tekelec, and that only includes companies, not individual software it has also purchased. Now, Oracle is planning to release a new collection of faster servers in an effort to not only revive the hardware division, but to become the leading source.

The SPARC T5 and M5 midrange servers are based on the SPARC T5, the world’s fastest microprocessor and have already set 17 world records including the world’s best platform for enterprise computing at any scale, the fastest single server for Oracle Database and the fastest single server for Oracle Middleware with a 12xc cost performance advantage of IBM (News - Alert) Power 780. These new servers are designed to outweigh all of Oracle’s servers in the past, as it is 10x faster than previous generations that offers such hardware and RAS capabilities.

And of course, Oracle’s hardware division fostered its growth from its acquisition of Sun Microsystems (News - Alert) in 2010, which was meant to sell high-end server equipment, including SPARC. By combining Oracle’s innovative hardware with its cloud-based solutions, it will now be able to offer organizations a double advantage in one single place.

"When Oracle (News - Alert) bought Sun, a lot of people thought the SPARC microprocessor was a real laggard and would never catch up. We've done better than catch up. We've caught up and passed the competition," said Larry Ellison, Oracle’s chief executive.  

With Tekelec’s technology, Oracle will be able to deliver, control and monetize communication that is used by more than 300 service providers in over 100 countries, and when combined with its other recent acquisition of Acme Packet, this will only further its ability to bypass HLRs and provide differentiated services, as the two companies control sessions. This will create more alternative for carriers and the ability to easily add an SND acquisition, furthering the belief of Oracle’s headway into the telecommunications industry.

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