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We also offer a wide range of x86 servers. These x86 servers are primarily based on microprocessor platforms from Intel Corporation (Intel) and are also
compatible with Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Microsoft Windows and other operating systems.
We offer a line of products aimed at the unique needs of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and network equipment providers (NEPs). Rack-optimized
systems and our blade product offerings combine high-density hardware architecture and system management software that OEMs find particularly useful in
building their own solution architectures. Our NEP-certified Sun Netra systems are designed to meet the specialized needs of NEPs.
Storage
Our storage products are designed to securely manage, protect, archive and restore customers’ mission critical data assets and consist of tape, disk,
hardware-related software including file systems software, back-up and archive software and storage management software, and networking for mainframe and
open systems environments. Our storage products are designed to improve data availability by providing fast data access and dynamic data protection for
restoration and secure archiving for compliance.
Our tape storage product line includes StorageTEK libraries, drives, virtualization systems, media and device software. These products are intended to provide
robust solutions for both long-term preservation and near-term protection, of customer data at a lower total cost of ownership.
Our disk storage product lines include data center arrays, mid-range arrays, unified storage, network attached storage, and entry level systems. We also offer
software for management and efficient resource utilization and virtualization of storage resources.
Networking
We create networking components and products designed to efficiently connect and deploy server and storage clusters in data centers. The development of our
networking products includes both hardware and software development for the InfiniBand and Ethernet technologies that are used with our server and storage
products and are integrated into our management tools.
Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux Operating Systems and Hardware-Related Software
The Oracle Solaris operating system is designed to provide a reliable, secure and scalable operating system environment through significant core feature
development in kernel, networking, security, and file system technologies as well as close integration with hardware features. This design provides us with an
ability to combine Oracle Solaris with our own hardware components to achieve certain performance and efficiency advantages in comparison to our
competitors. The Oracle Solaris operating system is based on the UNIX operating system, but is unique among UNIX systems in that it is available on our
SPARC servers and x86 servers that are substantially based upon microprocessors from Intel. We also support Oracle Solaris deployed on other companies’
hardware products.
The Oracle Linux operating system with Oracle’s Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is a Linux operating system for enterprise workloads including databases,
middleware and applications. Oracle Linux supports x86 based systems.
In addition to Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux operating systems, we also develop a range of other hardware-related software, including development tools,
compilers, management tools for servers and storage, diagnostic tools, virtualization and file systems.
Hardware Systems Support
Customers that purchase our hardware systems products may also elect to purchase our hardware systems support offerings. Our hardware systems support
offerings provide customers with software updates for the software components that are essential to the functionality of our server and storage products, such as
Oracle Solaris, and can include product repairs, maintenance services, and technical support services. We continue to focus on
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Source: ORACLE CORP, 10-K, June 28, 2011 Powered by Morningstar® Document Research℠