99177 - Oracle SPARC/Solaris Overview Assessment 22/06/2023, 5:17 PM

Test: 99177 - Oracle SPARC/Solaris Overview

Assessment
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Section 1

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1. What is the Oracle SPARC guarantee?
Oracle will double the speed of each new processor it develops

You will gain more than an 18% increase in workload performance when upgrading to
a SPARC M8 server

When upgrading SPARC with a new Oracle Solaris operating system, all legacy
applications will be binary compatible
Database analytics and Java based applications will run faster on Oracle SPARC
servers running the Oracle Linux operating system compared to an X86 server or
IBM Power System

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2. Why does Oracle database analytics and Java based applications run faster on a SPARC server versus
an IBM Power System or x86 platform?
Oracle SPARC accelerates certain database operations directly in hardware

Both IBM Power Systems and x86 servers don't use the Solaris operating system
Oracle SPARC virtualizes a set of database functions through a software hypervisor

Oracle SPARC servers take advantage of built-in virtualization

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3. Which are the strongest market prospects for SPARC/Solaris?
Existing x86 and/or IBM Power System customers
On-premise modernization and private cloud

Hyper-converged data centers

Private and public cloud deployments

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4. How would you respond if a customer told you that SPARC/Solaris are dying technologies?
You are running Oracle DB and SW: logically how would IBM, HPE, Dell/EMC, etc.
engineer their hardware specifically for software they don't own?

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99177 - Oracle SPARC/Solaris Overview Assessment 22/06/2023, 5:17 PM

Oracle has commited to a next generation SPARC architecture along with Solaris
version 12.
SPARC systems are proven enterprise-grade systems and utilize SPARC M8. Oracle
has committed to supporting the Oracle Solaris 11 OS through 2034.
SPARC is the technology that supported growth of the internet in the early 2000's,
and is still going strong.

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5. Which resource would you use to access SPARC sales plays?
Oracle Support
Oracle Sales Central
Oracle Help Center

Oracle Technology Network

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Summary

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