14 DAY TRIAL // Software giant Oracle and Fujitsu, Japan's largest IT vendor, recently announced that the two companies have extended their collaboration in order to build the next generation of UNIX servers, a move that most likely wants to challenge IBM's and HP's position in this field.
The announcement was short in details, but the two companies plan to deliver Enterprise M-series servers with 15 times better performance that that of the present-day solutions in the next three years.
According to Oracle, the servers, as well as all the other products which should result from this partnership will be optimized and tested to best run Oracle software in mission critical environments, including banks and other businesses.
According to The Register, it is highly likely that Oracle will use Fujitsu's eight core Venus Sparc64-IIIfx processors in some tweaked form in the Sparc Enterprise M-series machines.
The Venus Sparc64-IIIfx is capable of delivering up to 128GFLOPs, has an integrated memory controller and is built using the 45nm manufacturing process, its TDP being rated at a rather low 35W.
“I am very pleased that our partnership with Oracle continues to grow,” said Masami Yamamoto, president of Fujitsu.
“We believe our active partnership with Oracle, in addressing greater sales and services on a global scale, will produce a richer and more vibrant solution environment for our joint customers,” concluded the company's rep.
In the fall of last year, Oracle showed us a roadmap which detailed its server, OS and processor plans until 2015.
For 2012, the software giant wanted to release a new version of the M-series servers which supported between 8 and 64 processors and delivered an important performance increase over its predecessors.
The new servers, which will result from this collaboration, are expected to go on sale worldwide in the second half of 2012.
