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Is Amazon’s Database Strategy A Glimpse Into The Future?
IBM, through the work of Edgar Codd, invented the ideas behind the relational database back in 1970. …
Oracle
Cloud
Bare Metal Cloud Takes the Fight To On-Premise HPC Clusters
In the HPC cloud business, Oracle is a relative newcomer. As we reported in November 2018, the company jumped into the fray less than a year ago with HPC bare metal servers hooked together with a 100 Gb/sec RDMA network. …
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CockroachDB Wants To Take A Bite Out Of Oracle
Cockroach Labs has created a clone of Google’s Spanner geographically distributed database, and it looks like adoption of the CockroachDB database is starting to ride up the blade of the proverbial hockey stick and is moving quickly towards the much steeper handle. …
Cloud
Oracle Puts Together RDMA, Bare Metal for HPC
Oracle was famously behind the cloud computing curve, with co-founder and then-CEO Larry Ellison several years ago dismissing it as little more than an empty tag that was more on par with fashion trends than anything serious in the tech world. …
Compute
Turbulence – And Opportunity – Ahead In The Oracle Sparc Base
You can’t swing a good-sized cat without hitting an enterprise running Oracle software in some shape or form. …
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. …
Cloud
Oracle Emulates Google, AWS On Its Cloud
During the dot-com boom, when Oracle was the dominant supplier of relational databases to startups and established enterprises alike, it used its profits to fund the acquisition of application serving middleware, notably BEA WebLogic, and then applications, such as PeopleSoft and Siebel, and then Java and hardware systems, from its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. …
Compute
Is M8 The Last Hurrah For Oracle Sparc?
Intel is not the only system maker that is looking to converge its processor lines to make life a bit simpler for itself and for its customers as well as to save some money on engineering work. …
Compute
Fujitsu Takes On IBM Power9 With Sparc64-XII
While a lot of the applications in the world run on clusters of systems with a relatively modest amount of compute and memory compared to NUMA shared memory systems, big iron persists and large enterprises want to buy it. …
Compute
Stacking Up Oracle S7 Against Intel Xeon
Even though the Xeon processor has become the default engine for most kinds of compute in the datacenter, it is by no means to only option that is available to large enterprises that can afford to indulge in different kinds of systems because they do not have to homogenize their systems as hyperscalers must if they are to keep their IT costs in check. …