Oracle has outlined its roadmap for Sparc and Solaris as it looks to increase development of Sun’s products. Solaris 11 will be released next year, the company has confirmed, and promised that Sparc performance will double every other year.
Speaking at a press conference to outline Oracle’s plans for some of the products it inherited during its $7.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems John Fowler, executive vice president of systems at Oracle, said that the company wants to push on the in data centre space.
"Complete, open and integrated systems is what Oracle has always been about," Fowler said. "The Sun acquisition is about extending that. We’re building best of breed technology and are driving for good performance, reliability, security and management."
Fowler confirmed that the next release of Solaris, which will be version 11, will be pushed out next near. "Solaris 11 represents a major upgrade – as large an upgrade as we saw for version 10. It will improve support of virtualisations and disparate systems," he said.
Business currently using version 10 will be supported until the upgrade to Solaris 11, Fowler said.
Turning to Sparc, Fowler said that Oracle will regularly push out updates to the system and will aim to, "at least double application performance every other year." Fowler added that Sparc servers will scale from 32 cores and 4TB of memory available now to 128 cores and 64TB of memory by 2015.
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He also said that Oracle would continue to "aggressively" develop both blade and rack server systems for the x86 marketplace.
