Oracle announced its next generation Sun Fire x86 Clustered Systems including rackmount servers, blades and a 10 GbE cluster fabric.

The Sun Fire x86 Clustered Systems are designed for customers that run a mix of demanding Oracle and non-Oracle enterprise workloads across a grouping of systems.

Oracle says that its Sun Fire x86 Clustered Systems reduce management complexity, deliver record-breaking performance and boost operational efficiencies. It also says that the Clustered Systems have achieved 14 outstanding world-record results on multiple industry standard benchmarks and prominent application workloads, including a world-record result on the SAP Sales and Distribution-Parallel standard application benchmark running the SAP enhancement package 4 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application1.

 “The launch of our Sun Fire x86 Clustered Systems underscores our commitment to delivering the best, most differentiated x86 clustered solutions,” said John Fowler, Executive Vice President for Sun Systems, Oracle. “We are the first to deliver high-performing application-to-disk solutions that can be managed and supported as a single system. This is a major step forward in providing a completely optimized solution that delivers enterprise-class performance and scale while reducing management complexity and costs for customers.”