Capability and capacity systems are the yin and yang of the server world. Capability systems are designed for a single type of workload and often have a focus on single thread performance. In contrast, capacity systems are workhorses, hosting a variety of different jobs and workloads simultaneously and running a range of tasks competently and efficiently. As virtualization becomes pervasive in Data Centers, capacity computing is taking over as the norm.

Steve Belt, corporate vice president, Ultra Low Power Products

By Peter Hoser, Fujitsu Technology Solutions

The rigors of digital signage installations, whether deployed on large screens, kiosks or in vehicles, are hard – temperature variants, dirt, vibration, shock and remote locations. Digital signage PC players, therefore, require a system that delivers high reliability when operating continuously under heavy load in harsh environments.

Oracle set a World Record for the
Oracle E-Business Suite Standard Medium multiple-online module
benchmark
using Oracle's SPARC T4-2 and SPARC T4-4 servers which ran
the application and database.

• Oracle's SPARC T4 servers demonstrate
  performance leadership and world-record
  results on Oracle E-Business Suite Applications R12 OLTP benchmark by
  publishing the first result using multiple concurrent online
  application modules with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 running
  Solaris.