Compute
Oracle Still Hanging In There With Exadata Engineered Systems
It may not seem like it, but Oracle is still in the high-end server business, at least when it comes to big machines running its eponymous relational database. …
Exadata
Cloud
Expanded Oracle Cloud Rains Down GPUs, Skylake Xeons
Oracle was late to the cloud game, but in recent years has moved aggressively to catch up. …
Compute
Oracle Steps With Moore’s Law To Rev Exadata Database Machines
Absorbing a collection of new processing, memory, storage, and networking technologies in a fast fashion on a complex system is no easy task for any system maker or end user creating their own infrastructure, and it takes time even for a big company like Oracle to get all the pieces together and weld them together seamlessly. …
Cloud
Ellison Pits Oracle Cloud Against AWS, Azure
Oracle co-founder and now chief technology officer Larry Ellison may have come late to the term cloud computing, but the database giant that expanded into middleware and applications over his tenure was not – definitely not – late to understanding the transformational aspects of compute utilities hosting application software. …
Compute
Engineered Systems Decline, Converged Systems Boom
After a boisterous first couple of years when the concept was new, sales of so-called “engineered systems” or integrated platforms, as the box counters at IDC call them, were rising steadily alongside of the adjacent market for converged infrastructure. …