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เอกสารอ้างอิง Hardware_Oracle ข้อ 4.1, 4.2

O R A C L E D A T A S H E E T

performance for Java applications and databases.
• Developer productivity and software quality Software in Silicon features are breakthroughs in microprocessor and server design
are increased and applications are
accelerated by Software in Silicon features. that enable databases and applications to run faster and with unprecedented security.
Software in Silicon embeds features such as encryption accelerators, Silicon Secured
• Near-zero overhead virtualization increases
efficiency and lowers cost per virtual Memory, and Data Analytics Accelerators (DAX) onto the processor silicon, offloading
machine. processor cores to execute other workloads simultaneously.
The SPARC S7-2 and S7-2L systems running Oracle Solaris offer a superior and

K E Y F E A T U R E S easy-to-manage platform for developers and enterprise users. Oracle Solaris 11 is a
• These servers are based on the SPARC S7 secure, integrated, and open platform engineered for large-scale enterprise cloud
processor, the best processor for scale-out environments, with unique optimization for Oracle Database, middleware, and
and cloud applications.
application deployments. Built-in virtualization capabilities in Oracle’s SPARC servers
• The SPARC S7-2 server offers one or two include both Oracle Solaris Zones and Oracle VM Server for SPARC, which allow
processors, with up to 1TB of memory.
enterprise workloads to be run within many virtual machines with near-zero
• The SPARC S7-2L server offers two performance impact.
processors and up to 31 TB of SAS-3
storage, or up to 76 TB of accelerated
NVMe storage. Security
• Hardware-integrated security and analytics
acceleration are provided through Software Oracle’s SPARC servers are designed to offer a secure platform, from the processor
in Silicon technology. itself to the operating systems, virtualization environment, and applications.
• Oracle Solaris 11 OS provides for secure The Silicon Secured Memory feature of Oracle’s SPARC S7 processor provides the
and compliant application deployment.
capability of detecting and preventing invalid operations to application data, through
• Open APIs on Oracle Solaris leverage hardware monitoring of software access to memory. This can stop malware from
Software in Silicon features for security and
analytics acceleration. exploiting software vulnerabilities, such as buffer overflows. The hardware approach of
• Built-in, no-cost virtualization technology is Silicon Secured Memory is much faster than traditional software-based detection tools,
provided through Oracle Solaris Zones and meaning that security checks can be done in production without significant impact to
Oracle VM Server for SPARC. performance. In addition, each processor core contains the fastest cryptographic
acceleration in the industry, allowing IT organizations to deliver end-to-end data
encryption and secure transactions with near-zero performance impact. In summary:
you can easily activate data protection and encryption security, by default, without
additional hardware investment.
On Oracle Solaris 11, security can be set up easily and enabled by default, while
single-step patching and immutable zones and virtual machines allow compliance to
be maintained with simplicity. In addition, Oracle Solaris offers high-level security
features, like time-based user control, activity-based delegation, and remote tamper-
proof auditing, among others. Virtualization also enhances security, by providing
secure live migration, by which any user’s session can be securely transferred
between servers without interruption, with negligible performance impact.

Efficiency and Performance

Oracle’s SPARC S7 systems offer tremendous efficiency in running enterprise
workloads. They provide up to 1.7x better per-core performance than x86 systems for
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running Java, database, and analytics, which are the bases of cloud applications . This
is the result of optimal core and processor design, and of bringing memory and PCIe
controllers into the processor’s silicon, which creates very low-memory latencies,
extremely high-memory bandwidth, and efficient I/O expansion. SPARC S7 servers’
per core efficiency can lower the cost of deploying cloud infrastructure. In addition, the
large overhead due to virtualization that is common in cloud infrastructure implemented
with x86 commodity computing is virtually eliminated with Oracle Solaris Zones and

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