Cover: I-Hua Chen
DESTINATION:
SPARC
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With the recent release of the SPARC T4 chip,
Oracle has arrived at better-than-promised
performance on the SPARC roadmap.
The latest advancements in SPARC chip
technologies—combined with the Oracle Solaris
11 operating system, which has been optimized
for SPARC—are delivering better application
performance and availability. Learn why Tucson
Electric Power Company is counting on the
past, present, and future of SPARC and Oracle
Solaris to run highly available applications in a
virtual environment. —By David A. Kelly
A Better Breed / 42
High-capacity and high-performance engineered
information systems enable organizations to handle
more data and process it faster than ever before.
See how agricultural giant Monsanto relies on
Oracle Exadata Database Machines and the Sun
ZFS Storage Appliance to meet its growing speed,
capacity, throughput, and availability needs.
—By David Baum
The Right Fit / 46
Until recently, the
initial cost and
extreme compute and
storage capacity of
available engineered
systems did not meet
the needs of many midsize organizations.
The release of Oracle Database Appliance
changes that: now midsize companies
have an engineered systems option to
fit their businesses. Find out why Oracle
Database Appliance was a simple, fast, and
affordable solution for call-tracking company
CallSource when it came time for an IT
infrastructure upgrade. —By Philip J. Gill
