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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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