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IBM System x® and BladeCenter® systems provide a rock-solid foundation for Oracle® Database solutions — from simple Oracle databases to high availability implementations supporting Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC). Built with state-of-the-art technologies and intuitive management tools, these robust systems offer optimized levels of availability, scalability and performance so you can easily manage your Oracle infrastructure in a more reliable and flexible manner.

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• For upgrading Oracle Database solutions to support or simplify future application upgrades, IBM System x3850 M2 and x3950 M2 servers provide uncomplicated, cost-effective and highly flexible solutions. Both these eX4-based systems can offer considerable savings over UNIX deployments, using our certified solution stacks on either Windows or Linux. In fact, the System x3950 M2 has the highest x86 TPC-C result published to date. As of February 5, 2008. Read more
• For consolidating your Web application tier along with your database tier, the IBM BladeCenter H, high performance and high density chassis, provides a reliable infrastructure to run compute-intensive applications with minimal maintenance and downtime. Providing the latest in cluster interconnect technology available, you are able to choose between the latest Intel®, AMD™, IBM POWER6™, IBM® PowerXCell™ and Cell/B.E.™ processor-based blades to support the database, application and Web serving tier.
• For both the distributed large enterprise and small office, The IBM BladeCenter S chassis tightly integrates servers, SAN storage, networking, I/O and applications, allowing you to build a flexible IT infrastructure that is robust, integrated and virtualized using common building blocks. BladeCenter S is excellent for running the database on one blade and the application tiers on other blades.

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