5x increase in single-thread performance and 7x increase in floating point performance over previous generation servers for a wide range of enterprise applications
99% Oracle SPARC/Solaris binary compatibility for easy migration and ongoing investment protection
With Oracle Solaris 11 or Oracle Solaris 10 you can run Oracle Solaris 8 and Oracle Solaris 9 applications
Improve system utilization and reduce costs with real time scaling and workload consolidation using built-in, no-cost, low overhead virtualization
Best in class, wire-speed security with integrated on-chip cryptographic acceleration
Smart, simple, and efficient design ensures greater energy and space optimization
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A single 8-core, 2.85 GHz SPARC T4 processor with dedicated 128K L2 cache per core and 4 MB shared L3 cache. The SPARC T4 processor automatically switches to single-thread mode when only a single thread is active, dedicating all resources to that thread's execution.
| 5x improvement in single thread and 7x increase in floating point performance over previous generation delivers the horsepower demanded by enterprise applications and enables rapid batch processing while maintaining high throughput performance |
Built-in, no-cost, low overhead virtualization with Oracle VM Server for SPARC supporting up to 64 virtual machines and thousands of Oracle Solaris Zones on a single server | Provides an ideal mission-critical consolidation platform that speeds consolidation efforts, reduces virtualization overhead, increases system utilization and reduces data center space and energy requirements |
16 DIMM slots, which support 512 GB of memory when populated with 32 GB DIMMs | Higher performance for memory intensive applications |
Integrated on-chip cryptographic acceleration with support for 16 industry standard security ciphers | Secure computing at wire speed without performance penalties or additional costs |
Space for a combination of eight hard disk drives or solid state drives and six PCI Express card slots | Highly expandable internal storage and network connectivity |
Oracle Solaris is shipped pre-installed with every server | The number one enterprise operating system for data centers, developers, and service providers delivers the software scalability, manageability, virtualization, and RAS capabilities required for mission-critical deployments
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Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center for comprehensive systems management | Dramatically improves the efficiency of IT operations with its integrated lifecycle management and built-in automation |
Oracle Integrated Lights Out Management (ILOM) | Reduces operating and administrative costs |