Itanium for a safe e-commerceIntel Corporation announced that the Intel® Itanium™ processor shows a significant increase in security transaction performance measured against competitive offerings, as verified in independent lab findings.
According to various commentators, the lack of speed and reliability in security is one of the roadblocks to large-scale adoption of e-Commerce. This news confirms that Intel's Itanium architecture delivers the performance to enable scalable and protected e-Business transactions, thus eliminating many perplexities.
In a document published by Coradiant, the 800 MHz Itanium processor showed a greater than 10 fold advantage in processing secure transactions over existing, RISC-based processors. For example, a server configured with four Itanium processors performed more than 1,376 security transactions without hardware acceleration, compared to 114 transactions achieved on a comparably configured Sun Enterprise 420R system.
