Oracle MiniCluster S7-2 Engineered System

Oracle have just released a low cost SPARC Cluster based on the new low cost SPARC S7-2 servers.  The main target for these new systems are Oracle database customers that need Zero Downtime and full Security Complience

• Thirty-two SPARC S7 processor cores
• Silicon Secured Memory and DAX
• Near-zero-overhead encryption
• 1 TB of memory
• 16.8 TB of raw flash-based storage
• 48 TB of raw disk-based storage
• Zero-overhead virtualization and automated application VM provisioning
• Built-in high availability
• Security and compliance automation
• Automated installation and zero-downtime patching
• Automated Oracle Database and Oracle RAC deployment
• Performance self-tuning

More information can be found here.