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Moving to Oracle Engineered Systems

The first few years of the 21st century saw a shift toward commodity computing platforms—small, powerful, resilient servers usually clustered together using OS-based clusterware—to provide just the right amount of computing power on an as-needed basis to the most crucial database applications. But another sea change has shaken this model to its roots in the last few years: the rise of extremely large-scale computing platforms that the IT industry has collectively termed engineered systems.

Oracle entered this marketplace shortly after its purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2010 with the subsequent release ...

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