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Oracle SPARC Servers

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What is Oracle SPARC Servers?

Oracle offers their SPARC line of rack servers designed, as described by the vendor, as optimal for scale-out and Cloud infrastructure.

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Choose SPARC Servers for long term projects.

Marcel Hofstetter
Enterprise Consultant in Information Technology at JomaSoft GmbH (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We at JomaSoft use the Oracle SPARC Server for our mission critical applications. The servers are a very stable and are used as a long term solution. Our servers work well even if they are more than 10 years old. No need to replace every few years. We love the integrated Virtualization solution "LDoms" to consolidate our workloads.

Pros

  • High Performance.
  • Easy Virtualization.
  • Very stable.
  • Long-term useability.

Cons

  • The price could be lower.

Return on Investment

  • SPARC S7 servers are an excellent replacement for the SPARC T4 server. Around the same price, but double the performance.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

HPE ProLiant DL and Lenovo ThinkSystem SR Series

Other Software Used

Oracle Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

It provides security with a performance, and simplicity!

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Pınar ErsoyView profile
Lead Data Scientist in Engineering at Dataroid (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a company, we need a business platform where we can secure our customers' data as much as possible. Also, our customers have massive data sizes, some of them are the biggest private banks in Turkey. For this reason, secure data storage was highly crucial for our business. With this respect, Oracle SPARC provided our customers' huge data a fast and secure platform for database and application consolidation while maximizing uptime by gaining their trust as well with the name of Oracle.

Pros

  • encryption
  • masking
  • redaction
  • subsetting

Cons

  • performance improvements
  • operational flexibility
  • Live Migration Might Fail in some versions as 3.1.1

Return on Investment

  • Does Not Support Domain Migration
  • Migration Fails When the Target Machine Has Insufficient Free LDCs
  • Limit the Maximum Number of Virtual Functions That Can Be Assigned to a Domain

Alternatives Considered

Google Cloud SQL

Other Software Used

Google BigQuery, AWS Chatbot, AWS Auto Scaling

Easy integration with Oracle SPARC Servers

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Radhamohan Garg
GM in Information Technology at Birla Precision Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Setup was very easy
  • Easy understanting documentation
  • Best support with quick services

Cons

  • we never faced any issue with integrating our application over Oracle SPARC Servers

Return on Investment

  • our organization never faced any difficulty in integrations

Alternatives Considered

IBM Power System S914

Quick Implementation

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Verified User
Manager in Human Resources (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We shopped around for a server for our cloud computing and storage as well as on site server capability. Oracle had the best bang for our buck product and their implementation and support was #1. My IT team had no problem setting up the in house server and integrating the cloud for our enterprise customers and executives. The great thing about these is you can scale up or down without having a lot of downtime. Great product so far!

Pros

  • Oracles customer service is wonderful.
  • Setup was a breeze.
  • Support was quick to answer and had the solutions we needed.

Cons

  • We didn't have any problems whatsoever with integration

Return on Investment

  • Our ROI has been very positive with this purchase

Other Software Used

ADP SmartCompliance, UltiPro, bswift

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