When Larry Ellison introduced new servers and clusters at the old Sun Microsystems auditorium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Thursday, he poked fun at competitors IBM and HP, depicting Oracle as a cheetah, IBM as a stallion and HP as a turtle. He noted that HP products are slow and the company is vulnerable in the marketplace. The SPARC Supercluster Ellison introduced is based on SPARC T3 and M5000 servers. The new supercluster utilizes new SPARC servers, FlashFire, InfiniBand QDR, Oracle Solaris and the ZFS Storage Appliance.
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Oracle SPARCs a Hardware Race
Posted by: Rob Spiegel December 3, 2010 11:32 AMWhen Larry Ellison introduced new servers and clusters at the old Sun Microsystems auditorium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Thursday, he poked fun at competitors IBM and HP, depicting Oracle as a cheetah, IBM as a stallion and HP as a turtle. He noted that HP products are slow and the company is vulnerable in the marketplace. The SPARC Supercluster Ellison introduced is based on SPARC T3 and M5000 servers. The new supercluster utilizes new SPARC servers, FlashFire, InfiniBand QDR, Oracle Solaris and the ZFS Storage Appliance.