New age 'SPARC M7' silicon-based chip offers security with super performance: Top Oracle India executive

New Delhi: Oracle's state-of-the-art SPARC M7 microprocessor, the world's first silicon-based memory intrusion detection and a high-speed encryption chip, offers data security and memory protection without performance degradation and is cost-effective, a top executive of Oracle India has said. Apart from the "always on" security and no performance degradation, this microprocessor also helps in memory protection. On a question about how SPARC M7 is going to change the data security scene for the Indian companies struggling at the online security front, Malhotra said this microprocessor is in the innermost layer of the server so it is the most effective means to stop malware intrusion. But when a malware enters is inside, through those security layers, there is no stopping of it from accessing the memory," the Oracle India executive pointed out.