Fujitsu and Oracle Enhance SPARC Enterprise M-Series Servers with New Processor

News Facts

• Continuing their more than 20-year partnership and leadership in mission-critical computing, Fujitsu and Oracle announced the enhanced SPARC Enterprise M-Series server product line with a new processor SPARC64 VII+. Fujitsu and Oracle also unveiled the unified enclosure design of the Fujitsu and Oracle SPARC Enterprise M-series servers which features the logos of both companies.
• Jointly designed and manufactured by Fujitsu and Oracle, the enhanced SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers deliver increased performance, improved manageability and maximum investment protection for mission-critical computing.
• The SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers run Oracle Solaris and deliver extreme reliability and scalability, and tightly engineered performance optimizations for customers running mission-critical applications, including Oracle Applications and Fujitsu applications. Customers running other applications will also benefit from the improved performance of the SPARC Enterprise M-series servers.
• The new SPARC64 VII+ processor provides faster memory access and increased compute power, including:
  
  • Increased clock speed of up to 3.0 GHz and double the size of the L2 cache up to 12MB, delivering up to 20 percent more performance.⁽¹⁾ All M-series benchmarks are available here.
  • SPARC hardware and Oracle Solaris jointly engineered for maximum performance.
  • Oracle is optimizing the hardware, operating system and Oracle Applications to deliver maximum system performance.
• The SPARC Enterprise M-series servers with Oracle Solaris provide mission-critical reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) for applications that need to be "always on," including:
  
  • Predictive self-healing, component redundancy and hot-swap, memory mirroring and fault containment with Dynamic Domains and Solaris Containers.
  • Extensive combined hardware, operating system and application testing to improve reliability and performance of the servers.
• The SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers protect customer hardware and software investments with easy in-system processor and system board upgrades that enable customers to mix multiple generations of processors in one server, all running at full speed.
• The recently announced Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g OpsCenter has new SPARC Enterprise M-series-specific management capabilities, including:
  
  • Simplified management for the entire integrated hardware and software stack.
  • The ability to create, manage, provision and configure Dynamic Domains and Solaris Containers, making the SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers a better consolidation platform.
• The SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers are Fujitsu and Oracle's comprehensive line of SPARC Solaris servers, ranging from the single-socket M3000 to the 64-socket M9000.
• This announcement completes a full refresh of Fujitsu and Oracle's entire line of SPARC servers; further demonstrating Fujitsu and Oracle's continuing investment in the SPARC architecture.

Supporting Quotes

• "We are pleased to announce with Oracle, the launch of our enhanced SPARC Enterprise M-series servers using the new SPARC64 VII+ processor," said Noriyuki Toyoki, Corporate Senior Vice President of Fujitsu. "The new SPARC64 VII+ based, SPARC Enterprise M-series server product line is the crown jewel of our over 20-year relationship, and further solidifies our joint commitment in providing SPARC/Solaris products which deliver improved value to our customers towards the future."
• "The enhanced Fujitsu and Oracle SPARC Enterprise M-Series server line represents our commitment to protecting our customers' investments by engineering high-performance systems for mission-critical deployments that can be periodically and easily upgraded," said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems, Oracle. "Oracle delivers optimized systems, engineered from application-to-disk, to provide customers with best-in-class performance, availability and simplified management."

Supporting Resources

• SPARC Enterprise M-Series Servers: Fujitsu and Oracle
• Oracle Benchmarks
• PDF Oracle SPARC Server RAS comparison
• Multi-core multi-thread SPARC 64 processor
• Oracle Solaris
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