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Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances – go larger and faster, again.

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance disk trays can now use the 14TB "capacity" disk instead of the 10TB disk for extra storage space. Each individual disk shelf can now support 336TB or 280TB when using additional read/write flash disk. December 2018 also sees the release of new medium and high end controllers, the ZS7-2. When combined with the new disk capacity configurations now scale to 16PB of spinning disk storage or [...]

By |January 18th, 2019|News|0 Comments

Oracle ZS9-2 ZFS Storage Appliance gets larger disks

The Oracle ZS9-2 ZFS Storage Appliance gets new 22TB disks for the 4U "capacity disk tray" providing a whopping 528TB of raw storage in a single unit. This allows a single head appliance to achieve a storage capacity of 4.22 Petabytes with eight trays. That is an increase of 336TB per chassis compared to the launch of these systems and the original 8TB disks. For [...]

By |August 16th, 2023|Uncategorized|0 Comments

SPARC Servers – they are not going away you know.

The Future of SPARC is here now. SPARC Servers provide a unique offering in terms of performance and security and Solaris 11.4 is supported to "at least" to 2034 providing complete piece of mind. Oracle SPARC T8/M8 servers still offer the leading system performance and track the latest high speed network technologies offering 100GbE CX5 (Mellanox) card today. The SPARC M8 is still the world's [...]

By |September 13th, 2022|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Linux OS Support – Low Cost Support Direct From Oracle

Oracle offer 24/7/365 support for Oracle Linux, a high performance and secure operating environment in a single, easy-to-manage support offering. Oracle Linux provides a 100% application binary compatible alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS Linux. Talk to Synoptix for pricing. One Year Support subscriptions including 24/7/365 Telephone Support direct from Oracle personnel start at less than €470 + VAT for a 2-Socket Server. [...]

By |June 9th, 2022|Uncategorized|0 Comments

SL150 Tape Library upgrade offer

Oracle are running a promo until May 20th, 2020 to provide massive value on the StorageTek SL150 Tape Library upgrades. This is only open to existing owners of the SL150 Tape Library and includes three primary components: LTO-8 and LTO-7 Drives and the 30-slot expansion unit. Fact #1: 12TB Capacity Oracle’s LTO-8 offers 10x more capacity than LTO-5, enabling you to archive 900TB in a [...]

By |February 14th, 2020|News|0 Comments

SPARCUP

Take one or more of your old SPARC Solaris 10 Servers and give them a new lease of life on a modern SPARC S7-2L server running Solaris 11. You can host multiple Solaris 10 systems on one 2U server complete with processing, memory, storage and networking. Get rid of your old SAN or Direct Attach Storage connection and decommission them saving power, cooling and [...]

By |October 31st, 2019|Tech Talk|0 Comments

Oracle Java SE Subscription

Do you need to purchase Oracle JAVA licenses? To be completely sure check out Oracle FAQ’s at the following URL  https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/overview/oracle-jdk-faqs.html If you have decided, you require licenses for your deployment here is how to calculate costs. Desktop Commercial use of JAVA on a desktop is per user of that desktop. If there is one user it is one license, if there are five users [...]

By |October 30th, 2019|News|0 Comments
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