A customer is running an Oracle database on Solaris and needs to replace their systems. They are considering offerings from both Oracle and IBM. Oracle is leading with M5. What advantage should the…

The correct answer is C. Number of threads per core. These organizations rely on the maximum scalability that is achieved when multi- core servers and highly threaded operating systems host middleware and applications that are tuned to take advantage of these capabilities

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A customer is running an Oracle database on Solaris and needs to replace their systems. They are considering offerings from both Oracle and IBM. Oracle is leading with M5. What advantage should the IBM reseller discuss to demonstrate the value of POWER8?

Options

ATotal cores on a single systems
BLicense cost per core
CNumber of threads per core
DCore performance

How the community answered

(32 responses)

A
3% (1)
B
6% (2)
C
78% (25)
D
13% (4)

Explanation

These organizations rely on the maximum scalability that is achieved when multi- core servers and highly threaded operating systems host middleware and applications that are tuned to take advantage of these capabilities

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#Oracle competitive#threads per core#POWER8 vs SPARC#competitive positioning

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