52% of UNIX shipments over the past 5 years were Solaris according to IDC.Oracle continues to be the #1 UNIX server vendor with more shipments than IBM and HP. Our sweet spot is the the volume and mid-range UNIX server business.Note that the publically available Gartner data is for both client and server OS revenues. Microsoft is the dominant vendor for both client and server OS.Gartner attempted to estimated Solaris revenue by using 8% of SPARC revenue. Gartner did not include not include Solaris on x86 estimates or SolarisSubscriptions.If the Server OS marketshare data from Gartner (not publically available but described here: http://blog.us.oracle.com/HW-AR/?96979517) were updated to include true SPARC, x86 and subscription revenue Solaris would be the number 2 Server OS in the Server market (behind Microsoft).
We believe that enterprises are on a JOURNEY to cloud computing. Most will EVOLVE their current IT infrastructure to become more “cloud-like” – to become a better internal service provider to the lines of business, BUs, departments – to provide greater agility and responsiveness to business needs, higher quality of service in terms of latency & availability, and lower costs and higher utilization. This evolution will take time. Not only is the available technology evolving and advancing, but enterprises are also working on the new policies and processes needed. In many cases, the technical building blocks for cloud computing are available in advance of enterprise readiness, so we think that enterprises will evolve towards the right at different rates. The first step that many enterprises are taking is to move from a “Silo’ed” environment to a “Grid” or virtualized environment. Most datacenters still have dedicated silo’s where each application runs on its own middleware, database, servers and storage. Each silo is sized for peak load, so there’s inherently a lot of excess capacity built in. Each silo is also different, leading to complexity and high costs to manage. Many organizations are moving from these silos to a virtual environment with shared services, dynamic provisioning and standardized configurations or appliances. This trend is very strong right now. Probably 80-90% of the companies I talk to are doing some form of consolidation right now, but they may be doing in only a portion of their datacenter, maybe 20-30%, so there’s more to do.From here, enterprises can evolve to a self-service private cloud with automated scaling (called policy-based resource management on the chart) and chargeback. Not every application benefits from self-service and elastic scalability, but some do, so enterprise are figuring that out and moving those first. Some organizations are not ready to implement full self-service, since that requires new policies and processes to be defined, and they may prefer allocation to pay-per-use chargeback models. There may be other challenges including gaining cross-organizational support, creating the business case and funding model, and various cultural issues.For these reasons, each organization needs to create its own roadmap plan, and to decide what to move where and when. For many, the first step in the path to cloud computing is Consolidation.
We believe that enterprises are on a JOURNEY to cloud computing. Most will EVOLVE their current IT infrastructure to become more “cloud-like” – to become a better internal service provider to the lines of business, BUs, departments – to provide greater agility and responsiveness to business needs, higher quality of service in terms of latency & availability, and lower costs and higher utilization. This evolution will take time. Not only is the available technology evolving and advancing, but enterprises are also working on the new policies and processes needed. In many cases, the technical building blocks for cloud computing are available in advance of enterprise readiness, so we think that enterprises will evolve towards the right at different rates. The first step that many enterprises are taking is to move from a “Silo’ed” environment to a “Grid” or virtualized environment. Most datacenters still have dedicated silo’s where each application runs on its own middleware, database, servers and storage. Each silo is sized for peak load, so there’s inherently a lot of excess capacity built in. Each silo is also different, leading to complexity and high costs to manage. Many organizations are moving from these silos to a virtual environment with shared services, dynamic provisioning and standardized configurations or appliances. This trend is very strong right now. Probably 80-90% of the companies I talk to are doing some form of consolidation right now, but they may be doing in only a portion of their datacenter, maybe 20-30%, so there’s more to do.From here, enterprises can evolve to a self-service private cloud with automated scaling (called policy-based resource management on the chart) and chargeback. Not every application benefits from self-service and elastic scalability, but some do, so enterprise are figuring that out and moving those first. Some organizations are not ready to implement full self-service, since that requires new policies and processes to be defined, and they may prefer allocation to pay-per-use chargeback models. There may be other challenges including gaining cross-organizational support, creating the business case and funding model, and various cultural issues.For these reasons, each organization needs to create its own roadmap plan, and to decide what to move where and when. For many, the first step in the path to cloud computing is Consolidation.
UNIX servers represent 22% of the server market as of Q12011 according to IDC. Solaris servers have been the top shipping UNIX for over a decade easily outpacing the nearest competitor by more than 15% of total market share. IDC has published a technology spotlight outlining the benefits of Solaris that you can share with your customers.The Evolving Enterprise and Operating Systems: New Requirements for a New Age of Computing, IDC, May 2011
Solaris offers 10 year Premier Support vs RH 7 year "Premier Support”RH 10 year offering is really 3 distinct phases. Oracle's is one 10 year phaseProduction 1 is 5.5 years and roughly equal to Oracle's Solaris Premier SupportProduction 2 is 1 year. No new major releases from year 5 on. Also only "limited" backporting of hardware drivers. Four years into S10, March 09, we were at U6 with probably at least 5 more major releases to come.Production 3 is 3.5 years - service packs no longer offered, install images no longer updated. "Elected urgent priority bug-fix errata may be released"After 10 years RH shifts to Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS). ELS is in addition to regular support subscription. "ELS provides critical impact security fixes and selected urgent priority defect fixes for a subset of the packages in a specific major releases. Fundamentally Oracle's 3 year Extended Support continues to release patches, not just critical ones. See Oracle URL for drill down on Oracle's ESOracle's Sustaining Support has no counter part from RH. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 are offered with 10 years of Production Phase support, followed by a three year Extended Life Phase.Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 are offered with seven years of Production Phase support, followed by a three year Extended Life Phase. Optionally, during the Extended Life Phase, customers may purchase an Add-On called Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) that provides support similar to Production Phase 3.
The Top 9 reasons why Customers are investing in SPARC/Solaris from OracleBest Reliability – a hallmark of Sun Systems for years and it continues – if it must run, it runs on SPARC/SolarisNew Performance results that emphasize real-world workloads, not esoteric SPEC resultsWe engineer Solaris for tomorrow’s systems – 10Ks of threads, 100GB of memory, Zettabytes of data20+ years of hard core integrated security features. Unique zones-based multi-level, labeled security configurationFully virtualized OS – server, storage, network – optimizes use of datacenter resources. Quickly deploy new services to grow your business.We coengineer Solaris, Oracle software and Oracle hardware to deliver the best performance for Oracle deployments. Engineered systems cut deployment times down dramatically. We engineer so you don’t have to.No other OS runs on the leading RISC and CISC architecture. Choose the best platform for your datacenter – we recommend Solaris SPARCOracle guarantees HW and SW binary compatibility, meaning apps running today and on legacy systems move to newer SPARC/Solaris unmodified – saving $s in migration costsOracle’s integrated stack of offerings means avoidance of a piecemeal approach and reduction of complicated support efforts with mixed environments. The only vendor in the industry with all the pieces in the stack to offer and deliver real value for application solutions
On September 26, 2011, we rolled out an update to that roadmap. This shows our continued on-time execution with the delivery of the T4 servers with 5x the single thread performance improvement, rather than the 3x improvement that was initially committed. Solaris 11 is on track for release later this year and the next generation T-Series is coming in earlier than expected. En Septiembre del 2011, hemos actualizado el Roadmap publicado en el 2010. Se muestra un cumplimiento de fechas con el lanzamiento de los servidores T4, con la mejora de x5 del rendimiento en single Thread vs el x3 comprometido inicialmente. Solaris 11 ha salido en la fecha prevista y la siguiente generación de los T-series va a salir antes de lo esperado.
Estas son las características fundamentales del nuevo Chip SPARC T4:Diseño completamente nuevo:10 World records and counting.3.0 GHz8 Cores, 64 ThreadsDynamic ThreadingOut of Order Execution2 On Chip Dual-Channel DDR3 Memory Controllers2 On Chip 10 GbE Networking2 On Chip x8 PCIe gen2 I/O Interfaces18 On Chip Crypto functionsBalanced high-bandwidth interfaces and internalsCo-engineered with Oracle software
Oracle's SPARC T-Series servers running Oracle Solaris are ideal for enterprise class applications and consolidation projects requiring a single server, and can support multiple application tiers as well as a diverse set of single and multi-threaded workloads.They deliver leading performance and provide excellent scalability and security for the deployment of enterprise solutions. The SPARC T-Series servers provide the highest levels of reliability, availability, and serviceability in their class. With high-compute densities, and built-in, no-cost virtualization these servers reduce data center expenses and protect critical data and services with on-chip cryptographic acceleration and built-in 10 Gigabit Ethernet for secure, wire-speed computing.Los servidores T con Solaris son ideales para ejecutar cualquier carga de trabajo así como para proyectos de consolidación en un serrvidor o con una arquitectura en alta disponibilidad con varios servidores.Estos servidores nos dan una escalabilidad y segurida única, junto con un nivel de fiabilidad, disponibilidad y capacidad de servicio única en su clase. Además podemos reducir sus costes de DC debido a su alta capacidad de cómputo, la virtualización gratuita, la aceleración criptogáfica en el chip y la controladora 10Gb ethernet en el chip.
Oracle is highlighting 4 key areas of value prop messaging around SPARC T4 systems. First, SPARC T4 systems scale to meet the performance requirements of all applications in the datacenter. This is an improvement over earlier generation T systems which specifically targeted throughput oriented, concurrent applications but were not optimized for singlethreaded performance. The New T4 processor has improvements in a ground up redesign which enables it to run single thread apps up to 5x better than T3 systems. Second, SPARC T4 systems continue and enhance the options around true wire speed encryption that is built into the hardware at no cost. Third, SPARC T4 systems integrate virtualization, systems management and security functionality and no extra cost, enabling customers to reduce cost of operations compared to competing platforms that charge for these technologies. Finally, increasingly, Oracle will be providing enhancements and optimizations that will only be available for Oracle apps on Oracle SPARC/Solaris hardware. The recently announced SPARC SuperCluster engineered system, based on T4 servers, is a great example of this optimization.
Benchmark disclaimer and data are included below. Based on published results on SPECJEnt, SPARC T4-4 achieved a 2.4x performance advantage over IBM’s published Power 780 benchmark. This reflects roughly 7x better price/performance for Java and demonstrates the multitier capability of SPARC T4 as this benchmark also includes database level operations. And the platform for achieving these results is less than half the cost of the IBM Power 780 configuration used in the benchmark.SPEC and the benchmark name SPECjEnterprise are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Competitive data obtained from http://www.spec.org as of the date located next to the respective claim and this report. See the Website for latest results. SPARC T4-4 cluster: 40,104.86 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS; 1,671 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS performance per processor across the configuration. IBM Power 780 and IBM Power 750 Express: 16,646.34 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS; 1,387 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS performance per processor across the configuration. SPECjEnterprise2010 models contemporary Java-based applications that run on large Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) servers, backed by network infrastructure and database servers. The Application tier cost of acquisition for four SPARC T4-4 servers with Solaris 10 is $ $467,856 or $11.67/SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS. Oracle pricing from https://shop.oracle.com/ on 9/26/1011. The Application tier cost of acquisition for IBM Power 780 (3.86GHz Power7, 512GB RAM, AIX 7.1) is $1,297,956 or $77.97/SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS. IBM system pricing is from http://tpc.org/results/FDR/TPCH/TPC-H_1TB_IBM780_Sybase-FDR.pdf, adjusted to license 64 cores (w/o TurboCore). AIX 7.1 pricing is from http://www-304.ibm.com/easyaccess3/fileserve?contentid=214347. $77.97/$11.67=6.7x. Oracle app. tier configuration occupies 20RU of space, 40,104.86/20=2005 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS/RU. IBM app. tier configuration occupies 16RU of space, 16,646.34/16=1040 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS/RU. 2007/1040=1.92x round nearest 2x.
Database systems are vital to the success of business and government entities of all sizes. These systems must be highly available, while cost-effectively optimizing performance and employee productivity. The Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database brings together a complete hardware and software database solution that has been engineered to deliver optimal performance for enhanced productivity while also reducing cost and risk. This update includes new configurations using Oracle SPARC T4 servers and Pillar Axiom 600 Storage.The Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle WebCenter Content on SPARC SuperCluster delivers a tested, validated, and integrated platform that's easily deployed for content management applications. Companies in every industry can mange the flow of enterprise content, digital asset content, web content and search capabilities and show how content can turn into valuable data to enable cross organizational collaboration and communication enabling business success. The SPARC SuperCluster provides a robust computing platform that accelerates WebCenter Content performance utilizing the newest SPARC T4-4 servers, OralceExadata Storage Servers, Oracle Exalogic Software, Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, InfiniBand QDR networking and Oracle Solaris.
Spectrum of what we sell: from high-performance, best of breed system components such as the Sun Blades, Sun Fire servers, SPARC servers, to Optimized Solutions which are prepackaged and tested for specific workloads, all the way to the Engineered Systems which are fully integrated and optimized appliances.
Also critical to deploying a cloud environment is comprehensive management for all the components.Oracle Enterprise Manager can manage your application stack in exactly the same way whether deployed on physical or virtual machines to enable consistent management practices and tools as well as improved management efficiency and a reduction in the risk of operator error caused by trying to coordinate between multiple, disparate tools.
Position OVAB in the context of EM
Solaris has the most comprehensive fault management architecture of any UNIX or Linux operating system. Solaris engineering teams have partnered with their hardware counterparts in SPARC, Intel, storage and networking teams to identify faults, predict failures and take failing components off line before they impact the system availability.
With Enterprise Ops Center, now free with any hardware or OS support contract, we can see Ops Center picking up the FMA alerts and subsequent ASR request being filed with my Oracle Support.
Once received by My Oracle Support a service ticket is issues and additional details are provided for the system administrator to obtain more details on the nature of the fault.
In this view into a Solaris cloud infrastructure an application in the SOA infrastructure is having issues – the Sales Order application.
When the system administrator clicks on the application they are shown that the network utilization by other applications is causing the sales order application to get less network bandwidth and therefore missing the service level agreements required for the sales ordering.
With Entperprise Ops Center, the system administrator can quickly assign a higher priority and bandwidth amount to the sales ordering application (thanks to the network virtualization and resource management feature in Solaris 11). This allows the sales ordering application to obtain as much bandwidth as it needs to meet the SLA.