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Table of Contents
Oracle Engineered Systems
Oracle Engineered Systems are core to our infrastructure technology offerings and are important elements of our data center and cloud
computing offerings including the Oracle Cloud. These pre-
integrated products are designed to integrate multiple Oracle technology components
to work together to deliver improved performance, availability, security and operational efficiency relative to our competitors’ products, to be
upgraded effectively and efficiently and to simplify maintenance cycles by providing a single solution for software patching. They are tested
before they are shipped to customers and delivered ready-to-run, enabling customers to shorten the time to production. Oracle’s Engineered
Systems include:
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 better 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 microprocessors from Intel Corporation (Intel). By offering customers 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.
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Oracle Exadata Database Machine, a family of integrated software and hardware products that combines our database, storage and
operating system software with our server, storage and networking hardware and is designed to provide a high performance database
system for online transaction processing and data warehousing applications;
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Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, an engineered system that combines Oracle Fusion Middleware software with our server, storage and
networking hardware to run Java and non
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Java applications and provide customers with an applications platform for cloud computing;
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Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, a single server that is designed to be configured for in-
memory analytics for business intelligence
workloads;
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Oracle SuperCluster, a general purpose engineered system that combines the optimized database performance of Oracle Exadata storage
and the accelerated middleware and application processing of the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud on a SPARC/Solaris platform;
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Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, an engineered system delivering converged infrastructure for virtualized environments that is designed
to be simple to use, rapidly deployable and capable of running almost any application built upon Linux, Microsoft Windows or Oracle
Solaris operating systems;
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Oracle Database Appliance, an integrated, fault resilient system of database, operating system and virtualization software, servers,
storage and networking hardware 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;
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Oracle Big Data Appliance, a scalable, engineered system designed for acquiring, organizing and loading unstructured data into a
Hadoop file system or Oracle NoSQL Database and optionally integrating that data with Oracle Databases. The key components of a big
data platform are integrated into the Oracle Big Data Appliance to reduce deployment, integration and management risks in comparison
to custom
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built solutions; and
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Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance, an engineered system that is integrated with Oracle Database and is designed to eliminate
data loss exposure for databases without impacting production environments.