Management World — Calling the Sun Microsystems acquisition one of the most significant things to happen at Oracle in the last year or so, Dan Ford, vice president of marketing, said the folks at Oracle feel like kids in a candy store. Today at Management World in Nice, France, the kids revealed what they have built with some of their goodies: the Sun Netra 6000.
The Sun Netra 6000 for the communications industry extends Oracle’s portfolio from carrier-grade servers, storage and IT infrastructure, to mission-critical business and operations support systems and service delivery platforms.
“We brought two strengths together in the communications market in a very complementary way,” said Mark Butler, director of product management for Sun Netra Systems. “It allows us to scale up the Netra portfolio to address some of the higher-level applications above the core network to the application and service tier.”
He said this tier is a hot market area for service delivery and BSS/OSS applications and the high-availability and cost-efficient, bladed system is designed to meet the growing demand.
The new Sun Netra features advanced blade networking, simplified management and adds carrier-grade qualities such as Network Equipment Building System (NEBS) certification and extended lifecycle support. NEBS certification helps reduce cost and risk and improve time-to-market for customers, and is required for telecommunications central office deployments.
The Sun Netra 6000 is a modular blade system designed for the best power and energy efficiency. It has simplified management with Sun Blade zero-management blade networking, and Oracle Integrated Light-out Management (ILOM). It also provides choice in processors, form factors and operating systems.
Lee Doyle, vice president and general manager of IDC’s Network Infrastructure and Security Products and Services groups, said that Oracle’s Sun Netra 6000 will bring further choice of modular and energy efficient design, as well as low total cost of ownership to network equipment manufacturers who build best-in-class solutions for carriers worldwide.
‘It’s a great total customer-ownership story as we bring these product lines together,” Butler said.
