Oracle’s Secret Weapon in the Cloud

Oracle have now confirmed that their new M7 / S7 CPU will be used in their Cloud Infrastructure

Speaking to Forbes – John Fowler has stated that: Oracle Is Building “World’s Best Infrastructure”
Oracle is unique among cloud providers Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce.com in developing its own microprocessor—the foundation of the technology stack.

“In the case of SPARC, we’re able to put in unique features based on our understanding of software. So for example, we’ve incorporated security features and integrated data-analytics acceleration.

One of the things we can do as a company is we can take advantage of the volume economics of Intel, use that to build hardware and software products, and then we can do unique differentiation at the processor level.”