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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 FS1 flash storage system, targeted at flash 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 products, are used
with our server and storage products and are integrated into our management tools to help enterprise customers improve infrastructure
performance, reduce cost and complexity and simplify storage and server connectivity.
Industry Specific Hardware Offerings
We offer hardware products and services designed for specific industries. Our point-of-sale hardware offerings include point-of-sale terminals
and related hardware that are designed for managing businesses within the food and beverage, hotel and retail industries, among others. Our
hardware products and services for communications networks include network signaling, policy control and subscriber data management
solutions, and session border control technology, among others.
Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux Operating Systems, Virtualization and Other Hardware-Related Software
The Oracle Solaris operating system is designed to provide a reliable, secure and scalable operating system environment through significant
kernel 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. We also support Oracle Solaris deployed on other companies’
hardware products.
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