Oracle's SPARC T4 processor is faster and more efficient than the Intel Xeon X5690 processor (with AES-NI) when running network SSL thoughput tests. The SPARC T4 processor at 2.85 GHz is 20% faster than the 3.46 GHz Intel Xeon X5690 processor on single stream network SSL encryption. Moreover, Oracle's SPARC T4-2 server using 8 threads achieves line speed over a 10 GbE network with only 9% CPU utilization and does this with 5 times less CPU resources compared to the Intel Xeon X5690 processor.
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Oracle's SPARC T4-2 server is over 42% faster than Oracle's Sun Fire X4270 M2 (Intel AES-NI) when running DSS-style queries referencing an encrypted tablespace. Oracle's SPARC T4 processor with Encryption Instruction Accelerators greatly improves performance over software implementations, which will greatly expand the use of Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for many customers. Oracle's TDE feature of the Oracle Database simplifies the encryption of data within datafiles, preventing unauthorized access to it from the operating system. Tablespace encryption allows encryption of the entire contents of a tablespace.
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Therap Services, LLC, which provides an integrated, Web-based solution for automating the documentation and communication needs of agencies supporting people with disabilities, has become an Oracle shop, implementing Oracle’s latest x86 Sun Fire X2270 M2 and Sun Fire X4270 M2 servers servers running Oracle Solaris, with Oracle Database 11g and Oracle GoldenGate 11g software. Oracle GoldenGate provides Therap with the ability to replicate transactions in real time between two data centers, giving health services agencies immediate access to the system for vital filings and real-time reporting. Therap and its customers now enjoy an electronic alternative to the immense amount of paperwork that many care providers still complete manually, The more than 1 billion records Therap Services stores are now accessible in a system that scales to accommodate an expected annual growth rate of 100 percent over the next three years. Oracle’s Sun Fire servers enables a ten-fold increase in processing speed over legacy systems during the testing phase.
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Three new Oracle Validated Configurations are now available to enable Oracle Linux customers to quickly deploy a modern, reliable, and optimized corporate IT infrastructure using enterprise hardware and software based on Oracle Linux with Oracle’s Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. The new configurations consist of Oracle Linux 5 with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, Oracle Database 11g, Oracle RAC, Sun ZFS Storage 7420 appliance. One of the following is also part of the configuration:
Sun Fire X4800 server
Sun Fire X4470 server
Sun Fire X4270 M2 server
Validated Configurations enable easier, faster, and lower-cost deployment of Oracle Linux and Oracle VM solutions in the enterprise by offering best practices via pre-tested, validated architectures that help improve the reliability of solutions.
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Recently Oracle's Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array was put to the test. Two IO performance metrics were measured on the solid-state flash array using Vdbench 5.0. This is a disk and tape I/O workload generator for verifying data integrity and measuring performance of direct attached and network connected storage. The flash array delivered 17 GB/sec sequential read throughput performance for 1 MB transfers and 10 GB/sec write sequential throughput performance for 1 MB writes.
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