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Oracle partners are leveraging Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) programs to better serve strong customer demand for Oracle's SPARC T4 Servers with Oracle Solaris 11 across a wide array of market segments.

Oracle partners are moving quickly to Oracle’s SPARC T4 Servers with Oracle Solaris 11 so that their customers can benefit from the increased performance, security, stability and agility they need to run their most demanding enterprise applications in private, hybrid or public clouds.

To date, Oracle’s SPARC T4 Servers have been sold by nearly 500 partners globally including Azwell Plus, BGH, Frontline Systems Australia, Fujitsu, Kanatek, Keste, Maplesoft Group, MCR, Mythics, Neusoft, Ongo Tech, PT Astra Graphia Information Technology and Q Associates across 22 industries including Communications, Financial, Education & Research, Professional Services, Public Sector, Travel & Transportation, Retail, and Utilities.

Partners and customers are moving rapidly to Oracle Solaris 11, which is being deployed even faster than Oracle Solaris 10. In addition to Oracle’s database, middleware, and application software, hundreds of third-party applications are supported on Oracle Solaris 11 including Carrier Call GmbH, C-DAT Systems Inc, CommVault Systems, Inc., Connectiva Systems India Private Ltd, Data & Scientific Inc., InfoVista, International Turnkey Systems (ITS), Mobile Tornado, Numerix, SAS Institute, Inc., Siemens Energy, Inc., Smart ERP Solutions, Step Ahead Solutions, LLC, and SYSTIME.

Specializations Yield Competitive Differentiators

Further enabling its valued system integration, reseller and other partners to demonstrate their expertise and differentiate their services and solutions in the marketplace, OPN today offers Specializations in SPARC T4 and Oracle Solaris 11.

Over 300 partners globally have the SPARC T-Series Specialization, nearly 900 partners globally are Specialized on Oracle Solaris and the Oracle Solaris Knowledge Zone includes over 65,000 members. As a result, these partners are benefitting from the additional go-to-market support, marketing kits and local Value Added Distributor (VAD) campaigns enabled though the OPN Specialized program.

ISVs Benefit from Oracle Exastack Program

ISVs and other qualified OPN members are supporting their applications on Oracle Solaris 11 and seeing the benefits of the Oracle Exastack Ready program which includes qualifying their applications as Oracle Solaris Ready.

ISVs are also taking advantage of Oracle Exastack Labs, part of the Oracle Exastack program, where qualified OPN members gain access to Oracle technical resources. Oracle will soon provide a lab running SPARC in a secure cloud environment on Oracle Solaris 11, enabling ISV partners to test and validate their applications quickly and easily.

Leading Product Capabilities Drive Partner Success

One of the fastest ramping server products in Oracle’s history, Oracle’s SPARC T4 Servers are engineered with Oracle's complete software stack to enable customers to consolidate multiple application tiers onto a single server, reduce system complexity, and improve utilization.

With Oracle Solaris 11, the first cloud OS, customers can take advantage of designed-in virtualization with zero-overhead zones, secure live migration, simplified cloud deployments and dramatically faster lifecycle management with 4x faster upgrades and 2.5x faster system re-boots.

Oracle’s SPARC T4 servers deliver superior performance and currently hold more than a dozen world records on key application workloads and industry standard benchmarks.

The combination of Oracle Solaris 11 and SPARC T4 systems bring unique features for customers deploying public, private and hybrid clouds, including:

Optimized application performance

Comprehensive, built-in virtualization capabilities for OS, network and storage resources

Leading-edge, fully integrated data services

Pervasive security designed to handle the challenges of cloud computing

Cloud-scale deployment capabilities

Sophisticated management across the entire infrastructure – operating system, physical hardware, networking and storage, as well as the virtualization layer

Sophisticated management across the entire infrastructure – operating system, physical hardware, networking and storage, as well as the virtualization layer – with Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center, now free with Oracle Premier Support for Systems and Operating Systems, as part of the Ops Center Everywhere Program

High-performance encryption engineered into Oracle’s SPARC T4 processor, and fully integrated via the Oracle Solaris Cryptographic Framework, for low cost, low overhead, and easy availability for any application that needs it.