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P570 vs T5220

P570 vs T5220IBM 1, Sun - all the restOne point in the "favor" of IBM is the way you can get "pay as you go" pricing. IBM would routinely provide DOUBLE the CPUs/Memory that you paid for - they would be in the chassis and unconfigured. If you wanted more...

Tags: Network technology, IBM Corp., Sun T5440, P570, IBM Power 570 4-x 4.7, Sun Microsystems Inc., T5220, IBM POWER, GHz T2

Discussion threads 2009-03-12

Aix vs Solaris (3)

Aix vs Solaris (3)Expensive comparison[i]We made a comparison between the current M5000 and p570 POWER6).The p570 was almost 50% more expensive than the M5000. Service & Support from IBM was also about 20% more expensive. This included all discounts we could get both sides knew about each other.[/i]Yes but...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, M5000, SPECjbb2005, GHz Processors, IBM Corp., p570, Chip/16 Socket M8000, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX

Discussion threads 2007-10-22

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Betting on the future: T2 vs. Nehalem

Betting on the future: T2 vs. Nehalem"...but losing everything is like the sun going down on me...Ahhh what a great song...Ok Rudy.Sure IBM can't compete with Sun what with their stock about $100 more per share.My advise is DON'T WAIT! SGI and Sun took a beating from Linux because they...

Tags: Network technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Nehalem, T2

Discussion threads 2009-04-04

More on Sun vs. IBM: Why destroy SPARC

To really understand why IBM might want to cripple Sun through take-over talks all you need to know is that a Sun 5440 will outperform a P570 by about 2:1 on most business tasks - and costs roughly ten cents on the IBM dollar, inclusive of storage and RDBMS...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Sparc, IBM Corp., Processors, Databases, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-26

P570 vs T5220

As part of JesperFrimann's challenge with respect to the options available to a company with two aging p690s running Sybase, he suggested that: It's 256 threads per box on the T5440 versus 16 on the p550, and furthermore the power 550 supports shared pool virtualization.. so it...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., J2Ee, Processors, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software, Programming Languages, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-12

Turtles vs. Hares

In Aesop's version of the story a bragging rabbit challenges a turtle to a race, and then loses because he shoots so far ahead he becomes overconfident enough to take a nap, only to find on waking that the turtle has made it over the finish line. ...

Tags: Job, Stored Procedure, Data Center, Information Technology, Data Centers, Storage, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-11

RDBMS license costs and Open Source

A comment by frequent contributor JesperFrimann last week caused me to take a closer look at licensing practices among major commercial database vendors other than Microsoft. All three of the big guys (Oracle, IBM, and Sybase) follow the same basic sales model: ...

Tags: Processor, Oracle Corp., Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hardware, Pricing Strategy, RDBMS, IBM Corp., Pricing, Sales Strategy, Marketing Research, Databases, Marketing, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-09

Everybody loves virtualization

Everybody loves virtualizationOne of my pet peevesVirtualization is useful for testing and development environments. It makes no sense whatsoever for production environments.UNIX has a very nice scheduler that is built to handle hundreds/thousands of processes at a time. It automatically doles out CPU and memory and I/O resources. It has...

Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Utility computing, Operating systems, UNIX, virtualization, Sun Solaris, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

Linux: it's the last word on AIX vs. Solaris

Linux: it's the last word on AIX vs. SolarisLinux on POWER too expensiveUnless POWER hardware gets drastically cheap I don't see this scenario of yours working. I don't like Intel architecture but the future is Linux on cheap Intel and that is why Sun is changingtheir hardware line up. POWER...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Intel Corp., Power Technology, IBM AIX, Linux, IBM Corp., Sun Solaris

Discussion threads 2007-10-25

AIX vs. Solaris (4)

AIX vs. Solaris (4)Sun Ultra 24 WorkstationSun's first Intel based workstation with QUAD core starting at $995.http://www.sun.com/desktop/workstation/ultra24/index.xmlbetter than a PC - but still wrongAs a sysadmin I want my desktop to replicate the production system as closely as possible. i.e if I run on SPARC, I want a sparc desktop.That's...

Tags: Workstations, Network technology, Operating systems, UNIX, IBM AIX, X4500, Sun Microsystems Inc., T2, workstation, Sun Solaris, IBM POWER6, storage

Discussion threads 2007-10-23

Solaris vs AIX: Price/performance

IBM's newest AIX products feature the Power6, Sun's the UltraSPARC T2. It probably makes sense, therefore, to base a data center hardware cost comparison as much as possible on these two technologies. Comparable scaling is a key issue, but there's enough consistency about the benchmark results both...

Tags: T2, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM AIX, IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Network Technology, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Networking, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-10-23

Solaris vs AIX: The people problem

Please be aware, as I noted last week, that experience in both Sun and IBM environments has left me less than objective on the issue - and I'm therefore relying on readers to catch any errors I may make. That said, I think that it is only...

Tags: Processor, Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM AIX, IBM Corp., E25K, Data Centers, Sun Solaris, Storage, UNIX, Operating Systems, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Semiconductors, Components, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-10-22

Impact of Advanced Power Virtualization Features on Performance Characteristics of a Java / C++ / Oracle Based Application

The objective of this paper is to document the impact of utilizing different aspects of Advanced Power Virtualization AVP in multi-tier application based on Java, C++ and an Oracle database. The results provided are based on a customer specific application benchmark executed on an IBM system p5 p570. The data...

Tags: Virtualization, Oracle Corp., Performance, Java, CPU Utilization, CPU, C++, IBM Corp., C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2007-06-09

IBM Advanced POWER Virtualization and Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise

IBM's POWER5 technology feature, Advanced POWER Virtualization APV, was tested on an IBM System p5 p570 16-way server using PeopleSoft Enterprise benchmarks. APV allows the pooling of IT resources in a way that masks the physical nature and boundaries of those resources from users. The goal of this paper is...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., IBM Corp., Advanced POWER Virtualization, Virtualization, Hardware

White papers 2006-11-06

Retek Demand Forecasting - Batch Runtime Comparison Between AIX pSeries p570 and SUN Fire 15K

This white paper presents the results of a competitive benchmark of the Retek Demand Forecasting application on an IBM pSeries server against SUN. Overall batch run times, CPU and disk related metrics as well as the detailed HW and AIX configuration are provided. The goal of this benchmark was to...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM AIX, Sun Fire 15K, Retek Inc., IBM pSeries, Sun Fire, CPU, IBM Corp., Forecasting, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components

White papers 2005-09-01