Oracle reveals SPARC and Solaris technology Roadmap

Following the launch of a new generation of SPARC T4 servers in September 2011, Oracle recently unveiled its latest technology roadmap for SPARC servers and Solaris operating systems. Oracle System division director Marshall Choy said in an interview recently that in the next five years Oracle will apply SPARC processors to two server product lines, the T-Series energy-efficient servers and M-series high-end business-critical servers.

"According to the SPARC processor performance upgrade plan, the SPARC processor will be able to handle up to 40 times times the current capacity by 2015, and it will reach 128 cores and 16,384 threads, 4 times times and 32 times times, respectively." "Choy said. He said that with the increase in SPARC processor performance, SPARC server upgrades will also be accelerated, SPARC T5 server will be listed ahead of schedule, testing has begun at this stage.

In the operating system, Oracle Solaris 11 is expected to be officially released in November 2011. Oracle had a preview of the new operating system at Oracle's OpenWorld meeting in early October. Oracle Solaris 11 will perform targeted performance upgrades in high availability, memory scalability, virtualization, System Management, I/O extensibility, and kernel extensibility from 2012 to 2015, according to the Solaris development roadmap unveiled by Oracle.

Oracle Solaris 11 is the operating system for Oracle SPARC supercluster t4-4 Integrated System and Oracle SPARC T4 Server product line, while also supporting Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Server x2-2 and x2-8 systems. and Oracle Exalogic Middleware cloud server.

Choy emphasizes that Oracle Solaris 11 is a collection of new features that contain more than 2,700 projects and more than 400 innovative results. At the same time, it is an enterprise-class operating system developed for cloud computing that enables secure and fast service deployment in a large-scale cloud environment. In addition, this version of the operating system is optimized for Oracle and Third-party applications. It is reported that more than 600 customers from financial services, communications, utilities and other industries have already adopted earlier versions of Oracle Solaris 11 in production environments.

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