New IDC White Paper Says SPARC Servers are an Effective Choice for Data Centres

The SPARC T4 delivers record breaking real world results

Data centre efficiency needs to be continuously optimized in terms of people, time, money, processes, and infrastructure and the use of data centre white space. To support those goals, IT has harnessed a variety of technical approaches, including virtualization, workload consolidation, high density and high performance computing (HPC), new form factors, and efficient management practices that avoid server sprawl such as physical server sprawl and virtual machine (VM) sprawl.

Oracle’s SPARC servers have been designed to support virtualization, workload consolidation, and comprehensive and highly granular management. These capabilities are built on a suite of technologies that have been available on the SPARC and Oracle Solaris platform since the 1990s. A new white paper from IDC by Jean S. Bozman and Matthew Eastwood says that the latest generation of SPARC servers, based on SPARC T-Series processors, provides a wider portfolio of hardware and software features that can be leveraged to dramatically improve data centre efficiency and agility.

Business benefits associated with this technical change include more efficient placement of applications within the data centre, fewer IT staff hours spent managing legacy workloads, and improved uptime. This means that overall, fewer steps need to be taken by IT to manage the applications and to run them efficiently with respect to power/cooling and system administration.

“SPARC Servers: An Effective Choice for Efficiency in the Datacenter” is available for free download from the Oracle website, or by clicking the link.