
What's old is new again.
Imagine that, local computing.
Oracle has launched a rugged computer-filled box which users should feel comfortable dropping from a 1.2m height but no more than 26 times. What Big Red calls the Roving Edge Device is a 40-core, 512GB RAM, 61TB storage machine that can take Oracle's cloud where there is no cloud. The point of the "ruggedized, portable, …
I once went on a stag do in Pagan Geordieland in the middle of winter, and believe me, there is nothing rugged enough to stand up to that... except some of the lasses who were wearing slightly less fabric than you need to make a handkerchief in weather that even polar bears were describing as "a bit parky"!
> I hope it comes with a sheet of paper and a pencil, to keep a tally of how many times it's been dropped. Or would that be an optional extra?
You misunderstand: this version of Oracle only allows 26 executions of the "drop table" command and then it requires a factory restore and a new license payment.
RED ORE for SALT fog resistance sounds like something a bellicose military might and/or a smarter intelligent mite would be both interested in mining and anxious about being delivered for further refining enrichment even to the friendliest of allies, let alone discovering private and pirate enterprises are able to supply it already suitably well processed to generous clients in alien lands for hostile environment use in foreign territories with disputed contentious areas of a potentially explosive energy and powerful nature.
Such would buy a Larry much more than just another super flying yacht. Of that you can be certainly sure.
I imagine something loaded with computational power and forged in the depths of Oracle burns hot like lava. That could be a problem in salt spray, which becomes solid salt when you warm it up. Surely 61 TB is enough room for Oracle's environmental requirements, licensing agreement, terms and conditions, user manual, NDA, warranty exclusions, and mandatory product service tiers to clear up any questions.