• Migrating from SPARC* to Intel® Architecture

    Improve performance and mitigate cost in servers and blades.

Simplified, standardized, and more selections—these are the benefits of moving from SPARC* to Intel® architecture. See how the following information and supporting documentation reveal common design challenges, to assist in creating a custom migration solution.

Why Migrate to Intel® Architecture (IA)?

Embedded Intel architecture is the established leader in computing performance and innovation. Intel consistently offers a competitive roadmap of embedded products optimized for power-efficient performance and value and backed by Intel’s 7-year lifecycle support.

In addition, Intel works within the embedded industry to drive standards-based platforms and enable manufacturers to develop standards-based, open-architecture embedded computing solutions.

    High Performance

    Current SPARC* platforms underperform Intel® Xeon® processor-based solutions on the majority of workloads.

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    Standardized IT Environment

    Platforms based on Intel architecture enable you to simplify and standardize the IT environment and select from a broad range of industry standards-based platform solutions from multiple OEMs. SPARC’s* proprietary architecture lacks this flexibility.

    Platform choices from multiple vendors provide to the broadest range of innovative capabilities. In addition, Intel supports multiple operating system environments, while SPARC’s* proprietary architecture generally supports just one operating system.

      Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

      Because SPARC*-based platforms are typically more expensive than platforms based on Intel architecture, developers can reduce expenses by migrating their solutions. Cost savings include reduced capital and operating expenses and overall lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

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