Oracle Corp, the world's No.3 software maker, plans to launch two mid- and high-end servers — T5 and M5 — the fastest in the company's SPARC product line.
The SPARC T5-2 and the SPARC M 5-32 , which support mission-critical business applications such as ERP and core banking , are upgrades of Oracle's T4 and M4 series , respectively. Both servers are equipped with the world's fastest processor, the company claims.
Oracle, which posted disappointing results for its servers last quarter, is pushing aggressively into high-performance servers that it calls 'engineered systems' . Its main rivals in this space are IBM and HP. The SPARC T5 processor uses the same type of cores as the T4, but scales up the memory and number of cores significantly, the company claims.
The T5 has 16 CPU cores with a processor speed of 3.6 gigahertz, compared with 2.85 gigahertz for the T4. However, the new processor is supposed to be twice as fast as the old one, as the memory bandwidth and cache are also doubled. "Greater performance enable you to do more work with a single system, relative to a customer may be running today, whether that be older generation SPARC system or a competitor system," said Marshall Choy, director of systems solutions and business planning at Oracle. The server business in India is worth just over $600 million, but is becoming increasingly relevant as companies start crunching business data for critical decision-making.
IBM, HP and Oracle also invest heavily in developing their chips and high-end systems , as they strive for smaller footprint (space is a big problem in data centres), high scalability, and high throughput. Intel , for example, is developing high-performance server chips just for analytics. Some startup companies, on the other hand, are using cores from the UK firm ARM that consume less energy and, thus, address a big problem in data centres: high power consumption.
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