OREANDA-NEWS. October 27, 2015. “B&H Photo Video continually evaluates new technology to achieve greater performance and scale for our e-commerce infrastructure with a specific focus on providing a superior customer experience. To accelerate on-line transactions, we analyze massive amounts of information to make better, quicker decisions. We tested the SPARC T7 with Oracle Database 12c in-memory options. With the new M7 Software in Silicon acceleration, queries like "How many unique price points do we have on our price list?" run 83x faster on SPARC T7 versus the same server (without silicon acceleration) using the current industry approach of flash storage," said Shlome Seidenfeld, CIO & VP E-Commerce, B&H Photo Video. “Using Oracle SPARC T7 servers, we can reach new levels of insight with real-time queries on up-to-date transactional data.”

Informationsverarbeitung f?r Versicherungen GmbH (ivv)
“Oracle’s SPARC T7 servers will dramatically increase the speed of services we provide our insurance customers. The new platform, which runs Oracle Solaris 11.3, delivers even greater security for our customers, so they can be assured their data is safe with ivv,” said Thorsten M?hlmann, lead architect, Unix Systems, ivv.

University Hospitals Leuven
“Today, SPARC is the only suitable platform that meets our application needs. We selected SPARC servers over IBM and x86-based solutions because scalability and performance are essential for our mission-critical SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise database infrastructure. With the SPARC M7 servers, we can expand our business and grow at the speed of our customers,” said Jan Demey, Team Leader for IT Infrastructure, Leuven University Hospital.

BPC
“BPC Banking Technologies’ long-term relationship with Oracle aims to find the best technology solutions for our clients. We successfully tested SmartVista on Oracle’s SPARC M7 server running Oracle Solaris, and measured the impact of the Oracle Database In-Memory option along with the SPARC M7 processor’s new SQL in Silicon feature,” said Evgeny Kozhin, senior solutions architect, BPC Banking Technologies. “We were excited to see dramatic performance increases for both our online and batch processing tests. SmartVista is highly tuned and traditionally we only see incremental performance gains with new processor generations. No modifications to SmartVista were needed to get these extraordinary results.”

Capitek
“Capitek AAA is a carrier-grade access authentication management application for the wireless communication networks across China. In our tests processing log files for each AAA server, Oracle's SPARC M7 systems with Silicon Secured Memory and Oracle Solaris Studio development tools proved to be the only effective method of protection against dangerous programming vulnerabilities,” said Jerry Chen, senior manager, Telecom Software Product Department. “It enabled Capitek AAA to be more secure and highly available with very little impact on overall system performance. Other software based memory checking tools proved to be unusable due to their large overhead.”

JomaSoft
“JomaSoft recently completed performance tests on Oracle’s SPARC T7 system running Virtual Datacenter Control Framework (VDCF), our management solution for creating, migrating, patching and monitoring Oracle Solaris environments. Our results showed VDCF to be 1.5x faster core-to-core on SPARC T7 compared to SPARC T5. JomaSoft views Oracle’s powerful SPARC M7 and T7 systems as ideal platforms for customer consolidation and virtualization projects, with technology and value that no other vendor can offer,” said Marcel Hofstetter, CEO at JomaSoft.

MSC Software
“MSC Software, a worldwide leader in multidiscipline simulation technology, recently tested our SimManager simulation data and process management system on Oracle’s SPARC M7 system with Oracle Database 12c. Our testing found SPARC M7 to be extremely scalable and able to deliver better core-to-core throughput than an Intel Xeon X5 v3 server running a SimManager workload. Oracle Solaris 11 virtualization also consolidates multiple instances of the MSC SimManager server, providing a simplified method of managing and processing hundreds of thousands of simulations for product design onto a single platform,” said Leo Kilfoy, general manager, Engineering Lifecycle Management Business Unit, MSC Software Corporation.

SAS
"Oracle's Software in Silicon technology delivers significant value to both SAS customers and internal development teams. The scalability, performance and extensive memory bandwidth of the Oracle SPARC M7 is well-matched with the highly threaded and memory intensive algorithms of our high performance Business Analytics software – which means customers running SAS on Oracle will see faster analysis of their data so they can make better business decisions,” said Craig Rubendall, vice president, Research & Development, SAS. “In addition, SAS uses a variety of tools to ensure the quality of code that is delivered to our customers. The SPARC M7’s Silicon Secured Memory feature along with the Oracle Solaris Studio Code Analyzer detected difficult to find run-time errors far more quickly than other products we use for this purpose, resulting in faster fixes to common code across all platforms.”

Siemens PLM Software
“As a leading global provider of product lifecycle management software and services, Siemens PLM Software, helps thousands of companies realize innovation by optimizing their processes. We continually leverage our strong relationship with Oracle to ensure that our Teamcenter software is tuned to run on Oracle platforms. Teamcenter tests of the new Oracle SPARC M7 servers showed dramatic performance improvements, surpassing any improvements seen with a single generation upgrade of SPARC servers. Software-in-Silicon features of the SPARC M7 processor such as the Silicon Secured Memory and SQL in Silicon offer unique capabilities for performance tuning,” said Chris Brosz, vice president of Technical Operations, Siemens PLM Software.

Software AG
“Software AG’s Adabas Database Management System Platform is optimized for large-scale transaction processing and provides high-performance and reliable data processing for enterprise business transactions. We have been collaborating closely with Oracle engineering and we recently tested Adabas version 6.4 SP 1 on Oracle’s SPARC M7 system through their early access program and achieved an amazing 2.8X performance increase over Oracle’s SPARC T5 system,” said Angelika Siffring, VP, Product Management, Software AG. “Software AG’s relationship with Oracle helps us provide the fastest and most secure software solutions to our mutual customers.”