The theme of many keynotes and conversations at Oracle OpenWorld 2015 revolve around the concept of software on silicon. With the announcement of SPARC M7 technology (not to be confused with Apache Spark), Oracle now offers the enterprise advanced silicon on the company’s Engineered Systems.

Ganesh Ramamurthy, senior vice president, engineering for Oracle, joined John Furrier and Brian Gracely, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Oracle OpenWorld to discuss the latest product releases and the software on silicon technology.

Horizontal and vertical scale

Focusing on horizontal and vertically scaled solutions and the demands for the enterprise, Ramamurthy said, “As a vendor we want to be providing solutions and infrastructure that fit into both spaces.” He indicated that app development is happening in both directions, so it is important to design systems and servers that scale to both.

Customer nirvana

Responding to Furrier, who asked what the customer wants, Ramamurthy replied, “The customer always wants more for less, more performance, more security and efficiency gates and all at the least cost.” He continued by saying that in the cloud space, customers want more agility to get things going on the fly and more dynamically.

Ramamurthy insisted that it is necessary to build infrastructure to fit those needs, and he said that Oracle is introducing a range of systems to accommodate the enterprise. He pointed to Oracle’s SPARC M7 solution with a basic M7 processor that fits together servers, software and storage into an integrated system that runs applications at a capacity that did not exist until today.

Moving security on to silicon

Noting that security is the number one concern for Oracle, explained that the industry is struggling to address security, and for Oracle, the stance is make security simple and easy to adopt. He cited that with many systems, the tradeoff is performance for security.

Oracle’s SuperCluster M7 offers security and performance due to security residing on the silicon. The solution offers end-to-end system security and regulates compliance right out of the box, reducing the surface area for attacks.

Always-on security

Gracely felt there was some confusion derived from last night’s keynote about security and the customer turning it on.

Ramamurthy stated that this will no longer be an issue with the “always-on” security. However, he said that when security resides at different layers of the stack, security is complex. “The reason customers don’t turn on security is it has become a gnarly science project for the customer who needs to know a lot about the system and how things work together,” he said.

Remarking on the show, Ramamurthy said you will see “new platforms, revolutionary software and functions happening on silicon.”

Watch the full video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Oracle OpenWorld 2015. And join in on the conversation by CrowdChatting with theCUBE hosts.

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