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energy, space and operational costs. We have also engineered our hardware systems products to create performance and operational cost
advantages for customers when our hardware and software products are combined as Oracle Engineered Systems (refer to discussion above).
Our hardware systems products revenues represented 8% of our total revenues in each of fiscal 2014 and 2013 and 10% in fiscal 2012.
Servers
We offer a wide range of server systems using our SPARC microprocessor, which are designed to be differentiated by their reliability, security
and scalability. Our SPARC-based T5 mid-range server and M6 high-end servers, for example, are designed to offer greater performance and
lower total cost of ownership than mainframe systems for business critical applications and for customers having more computationally intensive
needs. Measurably increasing computing performance and reliability, these servers are ideal platforms for building cloud computing IT
environments. We also offer servers using microprocessor platforms from Intel Corporation (Intel). By offering customers choices across a range
of microprocessors, we intend to offer our customers maximum flexibility in choosing the types of hardware systems that they believe will be
most appropriate and valuable for their particular IT environments.
Our SPARC servers run the Oracle Solaris operating system and are designed for mission critical enterprise environments. SPARC servers are
also a core component of the Oracle SuperCluster, one of our Oracle Engineered Systems.
Our Intel-based enterprise x86 servers are compatible with Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Microsoft Windows and other operating systems. Our
x86 servers are also a core component of many of our Oracle Engineered Systems including Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic
Elastic Cloud, Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine and the Oracle Big Data Appliance.
Storage
Our storage products are designed to securely manage, protect, archive and restore customers’ mission critical data assets and consist of tape,
disk, flash and 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 back-up and restoration and secure archiving for compliance. Our storage products are co-engineered
with Oracle software and designed to provide performance benefits for our customers in Oracle Database and Oracle Applications environments,
as well as to work with multi-vendor application and systems environments to maximize performance and efficiency while minimizing
management overhead and lowering the total cost of ownership.
Our Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance is designed to improve Network Attached Storage (NAS) performance and manageability and lower total
cost of ownership by combining our advanced storage operating system with high-performance controllers, DRAM and flash-based caches and
disks. The foundation of our Oracle Pillar Axiom system offering, targeted at Storage Area Network (SAN) environments, is a patented quality-
of-service architecture designed to meet business critical service level agreements for dynamic, multi-application workloads and enable
customers to consolidate storage applications into a single data center storage solution.
Our tape storage product line includes Oracle StorageTek libraries, drives, virtualization systems, media and associated software packages that
provide data lifecycle management, deep analytics, and file access through the familiar “drag-and-drop” paradigm. In addition to serving in
tape’s traditional role as enterprise data backup, these products are intended to provide robust, scalable solutions at a lower total cost of
ownership for long-term data archiving and preservation in vertical industries such as communications, energy, healthcare and internet, among
others.
Networking and Data Center Fabric Products
Our networking and data center fabric products, including Oracle Virtual Networking, and Oracle InfiniBand and Ethernet technologies, are used
with our server and storage products and are integrated into our management
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