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Oracle Press Release

Oracle Partners Around the World Drive Customer Success with Oracle's SPARC T4
Servers and Oracle Solaris 11

Nearly 500 Partners Have Sold Oracle's SPARC T4 Servers with Oracle Solaris 11
Across Leading Industries and to Midsize Organizations

Redwood Shores, Calif. - April 30, 2012

News Facts

Oracle partners are leveraging Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) programs to better
serve strong customer demand for Oracle's SPARC T4 Servers with Oracle Solaris
11 across a wide array of market segments.
Oracle partners are moving quickly to Oracle's SPARC T4 Servers with Oracle
Solaris 11 so that their customers can benefit from the increased performance,
security, stability and agility they need to run their most demanding
enterprise applications in private, hybrid or public clouds.
To date, Oracle's SPARC T4 Servers have been sold by nearly 500 partners
globally including Azwell Plus, BGH, Frontline Systems Australia, Fujitsu,
Kanatek, Keste, Maplesoft Group, MCR, Mythics, Neusoft, Ongo Tech, PT Astra
Graphia Information Technology and Q Associates across 22 industries including
Communications, Financial, Education & Research, Professional Services, Public
Sector, Travel & Transportation, Retail, and Utilities.
Partners and customers are moving rapidly to Oracle Solaris 11, which is being
deployed even faster than Oracle Solaris 10. In addition to Oracle's database,
middleware, and application software, hundreds of third-party applications are
supported on Oracle Solaris 11 including Carrier Call GmbH, C-DAT Systems Inc,
CommVault Systems, Inc., Connectiva Systems India Private Ltd, Data &
Scientific Inc., InfoVista, International Turnkey Systems (ITS), Mobile
Tornado, Numerix, SAS Institute, Inc., Siemens Energy, Inc., Smart ERP
Solutions, Step Ahead Solutions, LLC, and SYSTIME.

Specializations Yield Competitive Differentiators

Further enabling its valued system integration, reseller and other partners to
demonstrate their expertise and differentiate their services and solutions in
the marketplace, OPN today offers Specializations in SPARC T4 and Oracle
Solaris 11.
Over 300 partners globally have the SPARC T-Series Specialization, nearly 900
partners globally are Specialized on Oracle Solaris and the Oracle Solaris
Knowledge Zone includes over 65,000 members. As a result, these partners are
benefitting from the additional go-to-market support, marketing kits and local
Value Added Distributor (VAD) campaigns enabled though the OPN Specialized
program.

ISVs Benefit from Oracle Exastack Program

ISVs and other qualified OPN members are supporting their applications on
Oracle Solaris 11 and seeing the benefits of the Oracle Exastack Ready program
which includes qualifying their applications as Oracle Solaris Ready.
ISVs are also taking advantage of Oracle Exastack Labs, part of the Oracle
Exastack program, where qualified OPN members gain access to Oracle technical
resources. Oracle will soon provide a lab running SPARC in a secure cloud
environment on Oracle Solaris 11, enabling ISV partners to test and validate
their applications quickly and easily.

Leading Product Capabilities Drive Partner Success

One of the fastest ramping server products in Oracle's history, Oracle's SPARC
T4 Servers are engineered with Oracle's complete software stack to enable
customers to consolidate multiple application tiers onto a single server,
reduce system complexity, and improve utilization.
With Oracle Solaris 11, the first cloud OS, customers can take advantage of
designed-in virtualization with zero-overhead zones, secure live migration,
simplified cloud deployments and dramatically faster lifecycle management with
4x faster upgrades and 2.5x faster system re-boots.
Oracle's SPARC T4 servers deliver superior performance and currently hold more
than a dozen world records on key application workloads and industry standard
benchmarks.
The combination of Oracle Solaris 11 and SPARC T4 systems bring unique features
for customers deploying public, private and hybrid clouds, including:
Optimized application performance
Comprehensive, built-in virtualization capabilities for OS, network and storage
resources
Leading-edge, fully integrated data services
Pervasive security designed to handle the challenges of cloud computing
Cloud-scale deployment capabilities
Sophisticated management across the entire infrastructure - operating system,
physical hardware, networking and storage, as well as the virtualization layer
Sophisticated management across the entire infrastructure - operating system,
physical hardware, networking and storage, as well as the virtualization layer
- with Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center, now free with Oracle Premier
Support for Systems and Operating Systems, as part of the Ops Center Everywhere
Program
High-performance encryption engineered into Oracle's SPARC T4 processor, and
fully integrated via the Oracle Solaris Cryptographic Framework, for low cost,
low overhead, and easy availability for any application that needs it.





Supporting Quote

'Specialized partners are critical in helping customers get the most value from
Oracle's technology innovations, such as those found in Oracle's SPARC T4
Servers and Oracle Solaris 11,' said Joel Borellis, Group Vice President,
Partner Enablement, Oracle. 'The explosive rate at which we have seen our
partners embrace Oracle's SPARC T4 Servers, across a wide variety of industries
and among midsize organizations, is testament to the power, performance and
extreme value SPARC T4 and Oracle Solaris 11 offer to customers.'

Supporting Resources

What Oracle Partners are Saying about Oracle's SPARC T4 Servers and Oracle
Solaris
Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN)
Oracle's SPARC T4 Servers
OPN SPARC T4 Servers Knowledge Zone
Oracle Solaris 11
OPN Solaris Knowledge Zone
Oracle Solaris 11 Training
Oracle Solaris Blog
Oracle Exastack Program
Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center
Connect with Oracle Solaris via Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
Connect with the Oracle Partner community at OPN on Facebook, OPN on LinkedIn,
OPN on YouTube and OPN on Twitter

About Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle's
partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and
implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and
support specialized knowledge of Oracle's products and solutions and has
evolved to recognize Oracle's growing product portfolio, partner base and
business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for
partners to differentiate through Specializations. Specializations are achieved
through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success.
To find out more visit: www.oracle.com/partners.

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