Rackable Systems Server and Oracle Fusion Middleware Set Record for SPEC Performance Benchmark

July 30th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

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FREMONT, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Rackable Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:RACK), a leading provider of servers and storage products for large-scale data centers, today announced that a Rackable Systems server, supporting key Oracle Fusion middleware technologies, set a record breaking performance for an x86 system supporting the SPECjAppServer2004 industry standard benchmark.

For the test, Rackable Systems C2002 high efficiency servers powered by dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz processors on Linux were used to support Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 coupled with Oracle Database 10g. The results: the system achieved a superior performance of 1,111.96 SPECJAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard (jAppServer Operations per Second).

Very cool and well done to Rackable for receiving this award. As with anything the results will not only be influenced by the hardware but also the operating system and software configuration, optimizing your hardware for the application and underlying operating system is an effective way of maximizing business benefit from the server, check it out an interesting read and more about the company and the award.

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