Oracle Brings Data Center Fabric To Sparc Systems

Oracle has prolonged its data center fabric to its Sparc-based Unix platforms, promising to let enterprises tie more servers and applications into the high-speed infrastructure which give users faster access to critical apps.

Data center fabrics are designed to make infrastructures more scalable, dynamic and flexible by tying together the various resources in the data center, which is increasingly important, given the rapid growth of such technologies as cloud computing and virtualization, as well as such trends as mobile computing and bring your own device (BYOD) and the rising demand for faster application performance.

 

Oracle Virtual Networking support to its Sparc T5, T4 and M5 servers and for the Oracle Solaris 11 OS on both Sparc and x86 hardware. It saves IT departments from having to install multiple network interface cards and host bus adapters in its physical servers, while tying together the resources in the data center at speeds up to 80Gbps (bits per second).The fabric supports a range of operating systems, including Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux and Microsoft's Windows, and virtualization platforms, such as Oracle VM, VMware and Microsoft's Hyper-V.