Igloo Products Corporation, the world's #1 cooler manufacturer, has migrated its legacy IBM mainframe IT infrastructure to Oracle's Sun SPARC servers and Oracle software in a move that is anticipated to deliver 169% ROI in three years and a break-even point in the first year. Igloo has consolidated its operations on two Sun SPARC Enterprise T-Series servers -- the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 -- in a virtualized system employing Oracle Solaris Containers. Igloo has determined that it can reduce its former monthly hosting fees by half now that it uses 66% fewer servers and 83% fewer CPUs.
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Gary Combs and Eve Kleinknecht, both principal product managers at Oracle, presented at Oracle Open World on "Best Practices for Mission-Critical Computing on SPARC Servers." Now the 50-slide set from their presentation is available for download and viewing. The presentation concludes that the best High Availability solution for Oracle Solaris (itself the number one enterprise OS) is Oracle Solaris Cluster for its ability to deliver higher service levels for mission critical applications; its ability to provide protection for consolidated, virtualized workloads; and its ability to perform disaster recovery in an elastic, flexible environment.
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Oracle's SPARC T4-4 server running Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 achieved world record performance on the Unicode version of Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Payroll (N.A) 9.1 extra-large volume model benchmark using Oracle Database 11g Release 2 running. The SPARC T4-4 server was able to process 1,460,544 payments/hour using PeopleSoft Payroll N.A 9.1. This result of 30.84 minutes on Payroll 9.1 is 2.8x faster than IBM z10 EC 2097 Payroll 9.0 (UNICODE version) result of 87.4 minutes and 3.1x faster than HP rx7640 Itanium2 non-UNICODE result of 96.17 minutes, on Payroll 9.0.
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Oracle announced that Oracle Database 11g Release 2 running on Oracle’s SPARC Enterprise M9000 Server with 64 SPARC64 VII+ 3.0 GHz quad-core processors has set a new world record on the SAP Assemble-to-Order (ATO) standard application benchmark, delivering a record result of 206,360 fully business processed assembly orders per hour. In running this benchmark both the application tier and the database tier were deployed on a single SPARC Enterprise M9000 server, demonstrating its capabilities for workload consolidation.
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In a recent post on The Observatory, blogger Brian Leonard presents a how-to on Installing WebLogic in a Zone. The procedure is essentially an improvised workaround to address the absence of an installer for Solaris on x86 in the download page for WebLogic 10.3.5 at the time of the post. The seven-step procedure includes an abundance of screen shots and all the code necessary to achieve the installation. Leonard takes readers explicitly from Step 1: Create the Zone through Step 7: Browse to the Console.
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