Breaking records and new releases: Oracle developments this week

There have been two new developments from Oracle in the past week, which have certainly impressed us here at Inatech. The first is Oracle’s new world record. Now, if you’re really enthusiastic about databases (and yes, we really are) you’ll love this.

Oracle’s 11g Database has achieved a world record non-clustered TPC-H Three Terabyte benchmark result, running on Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server. So what does that mean? Well, the 11g Database achieved a performance result of 188,229.9 QphH@3000GB, with a price of $20.19QphH@3000GB. Put a little more simply, 11g delivered 20 per cent more performance at a better price/performance ratio that the former record holder from rivals IBM. Even more simply, the 11g has officially the most bang-for-buck in the database world.

Number-crunching aside, Oracle’s other big development of the week is its new release, Sun Netra 6000. This is a new carrier-grade server for the communications industry, and it secures Oracle’s position as a leader in the comms industry when it comes to servers, storage, IT infrastructure, operations support systems and service delivery platforms.

The new release has all of the great features of Oracles Sun Blade 6000 modular system, such as the advanced blade networking, reliability and simplified management, and more. Sun Netra 6000 also brings carrier-grade qualities such as extended lifecycle support and Network Equipment Building System (NEBS) certification. NEBS certification helps to reduce costs and risk and improve time-to-market, and because of that, we think this release is going to be big, particularly in telecommunications central office deployments.

Leveraging the same advanced features of Oracle’s Sun Blade 6000 modular system, including advanced blade networking, simplified management and leading reliability, the Sun Netra 6000 adds carrier-grade qualities such as Network Equipment Building System (NEBS) certification and extended lifecycle support. NEBS certification helps reduce cost and risk and improve time to market for customers, and is required for telecommunications central office deployments.