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on it and enable customers to consolidate multiple applications onto a single system that is designed to be
scalable, reliable and secure.
Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine
The Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine is a single server that is designed to be configured for in-memory
analytics for business intelligence workloads. The Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine features an optimized
Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite and Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database. The Oracle Business
Intelligence Foundation Suite takes advantage of large memory, processors, storage, networking, operating
system and system configuration of the Oracle Exalytics hardware. This optimization is designed to provide
better query responsiveness, higher user scalability and lower total cost of ownership.
SPARC SuperCluster
Our SPARC SuperCluster is a general purpose engineered system that combines the computing power of our
SPARC processor, the performance and scalability of Oracle Solaris, the optimized database performance of
Oracle Exadata storage and the accelerated middleware processing of the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. Oracle
SPARC SuperCluster is designed to provide the scalability and performance demanded by a wide range of Oracle
and non-Oracle enterprise workloads. It is an ideal mission-critical consolidation platform that is designed to run
multiple tiers, from database to middleware to application, and to support multiple applications and operating
systems side by side. SPARC SuperCluster enables faster deployment, increased systems utilization and reduced
data center space and energy requirements.
Oracle Database Appliance
Oracle Database Appliance is an integrated, fault resilient system of software, servers, storage and networking in
a single box that is designed to deliver high-availability database services for a wide range of homegrown and
packaged online transaction processing (OLTP) and data warehousing applications. The Oracle Database
Appliance is designed to enable enterprises to consolidate OLTP and data warehousing databases up to four
terabytes in size.
Oracle Big Data Appliance
Oracle Big Data Appliance is an engineered system designed for acquiring, organizing and loading unstructured
data into an Oracle database. By integrating the key components of a big data platform into a single product,
Oracle Big Data Appliance is a scalable and supported big data infrastructure that reduces the risks of a custom
built solution. Built using our industry-standard hardware, Oracle Big Data Appliance is installed and configured
for high performance and availability.
Software, Hardware Systems and Services Businesses
Software Business
Our software business consists of our new software licenses segment and software license updates and product
support segment.
New Software Licenses
The new software licenses operating segment of our software business primarily includes the licensing of
database and middleware software, as well as applications software.
Our software solutions are designed to help customers reduce the cost and complexity of their IT infrastructures
by delivering solutions via an industry standards-based, integrated architecture. This standards-based architecture
enables our software to work in customer environments that may include Oracle or non-Oracle hardware or
software components. This approach is designed to support customer choice, to reduce customer risk and to be
adapted to the specific needs of any industry or application. In this model, our database and certain of our
middleware offerings are designed to manage and protect a customer’s underlying business information, while
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