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are designed for the most demanding mission critical enterprise environments at any scale. SPARC servers are
also a core component of the SPARC SuperCluster, one of our Oracle Engineered Systems.
We also offer enterprise 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. Our x86 systems are also a core component of many of Oracle Engineered Systems,
including Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle Exalytics In-Memory
Machine and Oracle Big Data Appliance.
Our Netra line of products are 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.
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 storage products are designed
to work together, to work with Oracle software and to work with multi-vendor application and systems
environments to maximize performance and efficiency while minimizing management overhead and reducing the
total cost of ownership.
Our Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Network Attached Storage (NAS) offering is designed to provide improved
performance, manageability and reduced total cost of ownership by combining third-generation software with
high-performance controllers, flash-based caches and disks. Our Oracle Pillar Axiom Storage Area Network
(SAN) system leverages a patented quality-of-service architecture designed to meet business critical service level
agreements under dynamic, multi-application loads and enable customers to consolidate storage applications into
a single data center storage solution.
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.
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, 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.
Oracle provides a broad virtualization solution from the desktop to the data center. Oracle Solaris 11 provides
comprehensive, built-in virtualization capabilities for the operating system, network and storage resources. In
addition to its built-in virtualization capabilities, Oracle Solaris 11 is engineered for server virtualization on both
x86 and SPARC based systems.
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’s Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
is designed to work well with Oracle products to patch core operating systems without downtime.
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.
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