Call me what you will – but don't drop me more than 26 times
Lindsay Clark
Tue 9 Feb 2021 // 19:30 UTC
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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, scalable server node" is to do processing in hostile environments where connecting to the internet is tricky. That means they can respond to data without sending it back to the bit barn, and only send back meaningful conclusions when reconnected, according to Oracle.