Oracle has sketched out a five-year road map for Sun's Sparc-based servers, hoping to reassure customers about the future of the platform and reverse a pattern of declining sales. John Fowler, the ...

The latest release of Oracle’s software for managing virtual machines offers the same set of features to Sparc users as to those who manage virtual machines on x86 servers. “With [Oracle VM] 3.3, a ...

Oracle has launched its new Sparc T4 processor, along with new hardware that it hopes will turn up the heat on server rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM. CEO Larry Ellison was, as usual, in feisty form ...

Oracle has given the first peek at its upcoming Sparc M7 processor, promising big performance gains for customers who use the in-memory compute features of its 12C database. The Sparc M7 is due for ...

Hear about the Oracle SPARC platform update from John Fowler. In this video, John discusses the strategy for SPARC and Solaris in Servers, Engineered Systems, and Cloud services.

Oracle’s database and high-performance workloads will run faster with the company’s latest SPARC M6 chip, which has been tuned specially for the company’s applications. Oracle SPARC M6 diagram The ...

Oracle’s plans for Solaris and Sparc, outlined in a presentation Tuesday by John Fowler, executive vice president of systems, are aimed at reassuring customers and channel partners about the ...

CEO Larry Ellison…made several bold performance claims and said he’s “looking forward” to competing for IBM’s customers. The T4…has eight processor cores…each core runs at up to 3GHz, compared to the ...

Over at IT World Canada, Howard Solomon writes that Oracle kicked off its annual user conference this week with the launch of a “Big Data Machine” based on the new Sparc M6 processor. It’s “the ...

Oracle's Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison on Thursday launched an attack on his company's competitors with new servers, appliances, and software, and personally unveiled new server performance numbers ...

Oracle plans to broaden its range of virtualization offerings, thanks to a number of applications obtained in the Sun Microsystems acquisition, said Oracle chief architect Edward Screven. Screven was ...