A customer is running a large application on x86 Linux with an Oracle Enterprise database. Which of the following can be used to financially justify migrating the application to POWER8 and DB2?
A. POWER8 requires fewer cores to run the same workload.
B. POWER8 Active Memory Expansion reduces the cost of memory.
C. POWER8 cores exploit SMT6.
D. POWER8 hardware and software maintenance costs are lower.
Answer:A
A customer is running a large application on x86 Linux with an Oracle Enterprise database. Which of the following can be used to financially justify migrating the application to POWER8 and DB2?
A. POWER8 requires fewer cores to run the same workload. B. POWER8 Active Memory Expansion reduces the cost of memory. C. POWER8 cores exploit SMT6. D. POWER8 hardware and software maintenance costs are lower.