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Unisys ES7000 Database Server Scores Best High-End Itanium 2 Price/Performance With Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition

Posted on: Monday, 20 October 2003, 06:00 CDT

BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2003--

Results demonstrate advantages of running large Oracle databases on Windows Server 2003

Unisys Corporation (NYSE:UIS) today announced that the Unisys ES7000 running Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition recorded the best price/performance ever achieved in TPC-C benchmarking tests by any high-end (greater than eight processors) server. It also achieved the best price/performance of any server in the over 200,000 transactions per minute (tpmC) class. This benchmark result is further evidence that Unisys is leading the way in making true enterprise performance available on the Windows operating system.

For users of large-scale enterprise database systems, the achievement highlights the ease with which the ES7000 leverages 64-bit Windows technology to enable organizations to obtain the high performance they require without the economic penalties of proprietary technologies.

The 16-way Unisys ES7000 Aries 420 Enterprise Server used for the benchmark recorded 291,410.61 transactions per minute (tpmC) at $5.28 per tpmC. The server was equipped with 16 Intel Itanium 2 processors running at 1.5 GHz, each with 6 MB of Level 3 (iL3) cache and 128 GB of memory. It ran the Oracle Database 10g on Microsoft's Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition 64-bit for Itanium-Based Systems operating system. The TPC-C benchmark is the computer industry's most widely consulted measure of server performance and price/performance.

The benchmark demonstrates the value Unisys brings to organizations that require the Oracle Database as a key component of their enterprise information infrastructure. It is the result of close collaboration between Unisys and Oracle engineers to optimize Oracle Database 10g on the ES7000 for the best possible performance. The Unisys ES7000 system is available now and is in use at leading organizations around the world; the complete benchmark configuration will be available on February 15, 2004.

"The ability to apply the power of Itanium 2 to large transaction processing workloads promises to yield economic advantages for Oracle database customers who have standardized on Windows as their enterprise database environment," said Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president, Oracle Database Server Technologies. "This TPC-C result demonstrates Oracle's commitment to support our customers desire to receive the highest levels of database performance at the lowest cost available."

The 16-processor ES7000 Aries 420 Enterprise Server distinguishes itself within the world of Intel Itanium 2-based systems as the only server specifically targeting the realistic workload requirements of today's global enterprise. All other Intel Itanium 2-based systems either lack the scalability needed to reliably handle growing transaction volumes and database sizes, or they carry such a large financial footprint that the economics of the platform are untenable in today's price/performance-driven world.

"The TPC-C benchmark demonstrates the performance benefits of using Unisys, Intel and Microsoft solutions to run the most demanding applications," said Dennis Oldroyd, director, Windows Server Product Management Group, Microsoft Corp. "The results show that customers using Oracle can realize terrific benefits from running their critical workloads on this Windows Server 2003-based platform."

The test was conducted using the Transaction Processing Performance Council's "C" methodology for measuring online transaction processing (OLTP) performance. The benchmark is modeled after actual transaction-intensive production environments and features multiple transaction types against a complex database structure that is typical of real-world, large-scale enterprise applications.

"This benchmark shows customers what happens when you combine the power of ES7000, Windows and Itanium 2 to run large-scale Oracle databases," said Richard Dracott, general manager of Intel's Enterprise Processor Group. "The Intel Itanium family addresses the growing needs in transactional databases, data mining and large-scale data warehousing for high performance at a manageable cost."

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