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The Oracle PartnerNetwork will empower your company with exceptional resources to distinguish your offerings from the competition, seize opportunities, and increase your sales.
Powerful, energy-efficient, highly reliable, and extremely flexible, the enterprise-class Sun Blade servers from Oracle provide an ideal platform for server consolidation and virtualization, database and business applications, as well as enterprise cloud deployments. Partners that invest in this product line will benefit through:
- Market differentiation. No other blade platform on the market provides the flexibility, such as the ability to mix and match SPARC and x86 blades, and combines compute, storage, and advanced networking capabilities into a high performing platform managed from a single point. These advantages provide partners with significant flexibility in meeting customer requirements.
- Increased partner services revenue. An excellent addition to a partner’s solutions portfolio, Sun Blade servers are targeted at projects that have a high partner services component, such as server consolidation.
- Increase market opportunities. Sun Blade servers support both SPARC and x86 blades, providing a unique opportunity to address both market segments simultaneously.
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- WRF Benchmark: Sun Blade X6275 Beats Power6. Oracle's Sun Blade X6275 cluster is 28% faster than the IBM POWER6 cluster on Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) continental United States (CONUS) benchmark datasets.
- Sun Blade X6275/QDR IB/ Reverse Time Migration. Oracle's Sun Blade X6275 cluster with a Lustre file system was used to demonstrate the performance potential of the system when running reverse time migration applications complete with I/O processing.
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Leverage this unparalleled enablement resource to train your staff on how to develop, sell, and implement Oracle solutions. Within the Competency Center you will find: - Guided Learning Paths:
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Prior to executing a distribution agreement, Oracle strongly encourages its partners to confirm their understanding of Oracle's business ethics practices by taking the Anti-Corruption Training below and passing a short skill assessment.
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The Oracle Hardware Technical Resource Center provides Sales Engineers and Sales Consultants access to critical technical product information for Oracle servers and storage. Resources include detailed product specifications, configuration rules and flowcharts, technical FAQs, interoperability, and technical sales tools.
Registration is required. Already registered? Access the Resource Center. - NEW! HP Competitive Takeout Sales Kit
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are application-to-disk reference architectures that help partners increase services margins by streamlining the full-stack implementation of Oracle database, middleware, and applications. - SPARC T3-1B Doubles Performance on Oracle Fusion Middleware WebLogic Avitek Medical Records Sample Application. Learn more.
- Processor Core License Factor for T3-based servers reduced by 50%. Compared to earlier UltraSPARC T2+ - based servers, deploying Oracle software on T3-based servers costs 50% less. Learn more
- Partner Ordering Policies & Procedures Training for License and First Year Support
- Partner Ordering Policies and Procedures for License and First Year Support – November 2010
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- Replay of Webcast on Partner Ordering Policies
- Partner Ordering Policies and Procedures for License and First Year Support – November 2010
- Oracle Expands and Optimizes Sun Blade Systems for Cloud and Highly-Virtualized Environments Oracle's announcement around the expansion of its Sun Blade systems portfolio with new SPARC and x86 blade products.
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- Enablement 2.0: Jumpstart your implementation skills via the Enablement 2.0 Boot Camps. These modular training programs are developed exclusively for partners and include key Oracle solutions
- Competency Center:
Leverage this unparalleled enablement resource to train your staff on how to develop, sell, and implement Oracle solutions. Within the Competency Center you will find: - Guided Learning Paths:
Role-specific training for Sales, PreSales, and Implementation Consultant.
- Guided Learning Paths:
- Oracle University: Leverage the premier provider of training for Oracle technologies and products. We offer thousands of courses for learners around the world!
- Search here by keyword for upcoming Boot Camps and Partner classes within your country. For more advanced searches, choose detailed search criteria here in the upper right hand box!
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- Guide to Reducing IT Costs Through Virtualization With Blades - IDC Whitepaper

- Sun Blade 6000 Power and Cooling Efficiency White Paper

- Sun Power Calculators
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- WRF Benchmark: Sun Blade X6275 Beats Power6. Oracle's Sun Blade X6275 cluster is 28% faster than the IBM POWER6 cluster on Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) continental United States (CONUS) benchmark datasets.
- Sun Blade X6275/QDR IB/ Reverse Time Migration. Oracle's Sun Blade X6275 cluster with a Lustre file system was used to demonstrate the performance potential of the system when running reverse time migration applications complete with I/O processing.
- Partner News

- Current Global PartnerNetwork Newsletter

- Current Partner Enablement Update

Local Information
- Search here by keyword for upcoming Boot Camps and Partner classes within your country. For more advanced searches, choose detailed search criteria here in the upper right hand box!
Education
- Sun Training Courses
- Enablement 2.0: Jumpstart your implementation skills via the Enablement 2.0 Boot Camps. These modular training programs are developed exclusively for partners and include key Oracle solutions
- OPN Partner Awareness Series
(learn how to leverage the OPN Program and Portal) - Access the Education Tools & Resources
section of the Oracle PartnerNetwork portal to find more training resources! - Competency Center:
Leverage this unparalleled enablement resource to train your staff on how to develop, sell, and implement Oracle solutions. Within the Competency Center you will find: - Guided Learning Paths:
Role-specific training for Sales, PreSales, and Implementation Consultant.
- Guided Learning Paths:
- Oracle University: Leverage the premier provider of training for Oracle technologies and products. We offer thousands of courses for learners around the world!
- Search here by keyword for upcoming Boot Camps and Partner classes within your country. For more advanced searches, choose detailed search criteria here in the upper right hand box!
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