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Increasing the Speed and Success of Innovation 8
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The Changing Role of IT
Cutting Complexity and Costs
The Impact on Innovation
Transforming and Simplifying IT for Business Innovation 3
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The Call for a New Breed of IT Infrastructure
The Oracle Difference
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TRANSFORMING AND SIMPLIFYING IT FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION
Recently, major trends and transformations in IT have forced organizations to
change the way they operate. Cloud, mobility, and big data have changed the
rules and reshaped the way that companies develop strategies, make decisions,
and execute day-to-day tasks. Taking control of these trends and embracing them
is essential for businesses looking to increase efficiency, boost flexibility, and
keep up with agile new competitors.
Oracle engineers IT
systems with innovation
in mind. With easy-to-
manage, highly available
systems, Oracle customers
have the platforms
necessary to innovate with
confidence, freeing up
critical resources that were
historically reserved for
day-to-day maintenance
and upkeep.
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And if this wasn’t enough of a challenge, IT organizations also
have to find a way to achieve all of this while simplifying IT. If an
organization fails to control the complexity of its IT environment, it can
start impacting internal processes and efficiency. When hardware is
co-engineered and preintegrated with software, everything becomes
simpler—freeing up essential resources to improve existing services
and make the most of new opportunities.
Technology has become one of the biggest
drivers of competitive advantage. IT departments
are now facing enormous pressure to transform
their operations and provide solutions and
infrastructure that support innovation across the
entire business. Today, choosing and investing in
the right IT systems has become one of the most
important strategic decisions that a business
has to make.
The integrated systems trend is on the rise. According to Gartner, “By 2015, 35 percent of total server shipped value will be as integrated systems.”
Gartner Data Center Conference presentation,
“Will Fabric Computing Change the Concept of the Traditional Server?” December 2011.
35%
TRANSFORMING AND SIMPLIFYING IT FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION
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Boston Medical Center faced challenges
just like these. With multiple vendors
and solutions contributing to an already
complex database environment, it needed
to find a simple way to consolidate IT
and focus on improving patient care
and the analysis of treatment efficacy.
The medical center needed a complete
solution that could streamline its
operations straight out of the box, and
chose Oracle Database Appliance to
transform the way it manages its entire
data warehouse.
Boston Medical Center
CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT
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The Oracle Database Appliance engineered system made
the difference at Boston Medical Center by providing a cost
and resource-effective packaged system that:
+ Lowered the total cost
of ownership (TCO) and
improved the performance
of its legacy environment
+ Delivered significant annual
cost reductions in storage
and engineering resources
+ Improved CPU and RAM
usage, accelerating runtime
reporting performance by
up to 50 percent
+ Consolidated its data
management team to a
single Oracle Database
Appliance administrator,
allowing server and
storage engineers to
focus on other high-
priority projects
Boston Medical Center
CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT
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Many organizations find that trying to expand, change, or innovate using
existing IT infrastructures can slow them down and impact ROI. There will
always be a rate of failure when trying to innovate, but being able to get to
market or implement new ideas and processes faster significantly increases
the chances of success.
Innovation today requires a data-driven approach. Stakeholders and decision-
makers need immediate access to detailed information and analytics to make the
fastest, most well-informed decisions possible. By empowering everybody with
an IT infrastructure that supports the timely delivery of data insights and enables
the detailed modeling of innovative projects, businesses can increase success
rates, get to market faster, and identify more new opportunities for growth.
ROI
According to IDC’s
recent “Converged and
Integrated Systems
Market and Future
Outlook Report,”
integrated systems
can help achieve a
30 percent reduction
in response time for
big queries and data
extracts. Oracle has
taken this even further,
delivering the highest
levels of integration to
help organizations operate
at speeds that were
previously unimaginable.
30%
INCREASING THE SPEED AND SUCCESS OF INNOVATION
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Atos IT Solutions and Services
Like many organizations, Atos IT
Solutions and Services first considered
engineered systems to help decrease
IT costs and bring exciting new services
to customers faster.
As an IT outsourcing company, Atos
didn’t just need performance and agility;
it also needed extreme capacity and
support for multitenancy on a single
machine. Atos deployed Oracle
SuperCluster, a unified and high-
performance engineered system that
integrates virtualization, computing,
storage, networking, and systems
management. This enabled Atos to
optimize service levels while supporting
multiple customer environments.
“We chose Oracle SuperCluster because, unlike
alternatives from other vendors, it enabled us to
operate a multitenancy environment to host more
than one customer on one machine, which is
critical for our IT outsourcing business. In addition,
everything from Oracle is tested up front, easy to
use, and easy to upgrade, from firmware versions,
to middleware and system management.”
Eduard Kowarsch, COO, “Managed Services, Central Eastern Europe, Atos IT Solutions and Services”
CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT
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As organizations grow, so does the complexity of their IT
environments. With data volumes increasing exponentially, many
businesses are realizing that the time has come to take two key
actions—increase capacity and scalability, and simplify IT.
The impact of increasing IT complexity stretches far beyond
manageability. Systems are the backbone of an organization, and
if they become slow, inefficient, and inconvenient to use, so do the
services offered by the business.
This can have a dramatic impact across the enterprise, including:
A loss of business agility and a significant increase in time
to market
Reduced customer
satisfaction and poor customer
experiences as a result of inefficient
and slow processes
Lower employee productivity
as they cannot access the IT
resources and data they need, when they need it most
Missing opportunities
by not supporting new initiatives
such as mobility and BYOD
Stagnation, as you cannot innovate with the platforms
and technology available
Hundreds of thousands of
dollars wasted on continued investment
and labor costs associated
with managing the inefficient infrastructure
CUTTING COMPLEXITY AND COSTS
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It is important to recognize that every dollar spent maintaining an inefficient
IT environment is a dollar that could have been invested in a simpler, more
cost-effective system that would enable you to drive innovation. Unfortunately,
many organizations fail to capitalize on this huge opportunity, sacrificing
increasingly scarce resources for perceived short-term convenience.
When you simplify IT, you cut costs.
Investing in a smarter, more efficient
infrastructure is the first step towards
lower-cost, higher-value IT. Once
organizations recognize just how much
maintenance and management tasks
are currently costing their IT department
they will begin to understand exactly
how integrated systems can cut TCO
so significantly.
According to Accenture, downtime in data centers costs 41 percent
more than it did just four years ago, illustrating a growing need for
reliable systems that business leaders cannot afford to ignore.
“Accenture Digitally Disrupted to Digital Disruptor PDF”
“Aggressive use of highly converged infrastructure deployments can reduce application infrastructure costs by about 50 percent.” David Floyer, Wikibon article, “Duplicating Public Clouds for Oracle DBAs.”
CUTTING COMPLEXITY AND COSTS
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With systems that have been preintegrated, organizations
can take a huge amount of the time, effort, and cost out of
ensuring all components and software can work together
seamlessly—freeing up critical resources for use on projects
that drive the business forwards and add value.
Backed up by the speed and agility offered by integrated
systems, organizations can adopt a true culture of immediacy
and flexibility—one that strives to tackle issues faster,
accelerate growth, and do more. This kind of shift in
attitudes and behavior across the enterprise is truly
achievable with the right mixture of efficient IT.
Growing IT complexity
Increasing pressure to drive innovation
Shrinking budgets
Social, mobile, and big data putting strain on current IT infrastructures
Indecision about whether to build or buy systems
Oracle engineered systems provide
complete solutions in a single stack,
giving companies a streamlined and
easy-to-manage alternative to their
complex legacy environments.
Common business challenges
CUTTING COMPLEXITY AND COSTS
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Ranked among the world’s top 200 research universities, Universiteit
Twente needed to replace an aging IT infrastructure in order to deliver efficient
processes, provide convenient access to student services, and eliminate
unplanned downtime.
The university deployed five Oracle Database Appliance units to prevent
service interruptions that affected critical business functions. The university hasn’t
experienced any downtime for more than a year, allowing the IT department
to spend time on supporting innovative projects.
CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT
Universiteit Twente
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Universiteit Twente
Oracle made the difference at Universiteit Twente by tripling database transaction
processing, improving the stability of more than 50 databases, and:
+ Replacing 15 database servers to
eliminate interruptions to critical
administrative functions
+ Running without downtime for
more than a year
+ Optimizing the performance of
Oracle Database Appliance through
continuous advice, on file-system
caching, and disk administration
CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT
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An organization’s IT systems are the foundation of its operations. They function like an essential
part of the team, and when selecting them, businesses need to look for qualities similar to those that
they’d look for in new employees. The systems:
Because of this, organizations are turning to a new breed of IT infrastructure—converged or integrated systems.
Must be flexible and able to pick up
new knowledge and skills quickly
Must work together seamlessly, with as little friction as
possible
Should bring new capabilities with
them that aid innovation
Need to be hardworking and bring a high level of performance
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THE CALL FOR A NEW BREED OF IT INFRASTRUCTURE
Oracle doesn’t just provide integrated systems; it provides engineered systems.
For IT professionals, this new breed
of infrastructure means a new way of
working. Across the board, integrated
systems are making IT organizations
more efficient. Time-consuming routine
tasks such as provisioning, patching,
configuration management, monitoring,
and troubleshooting are reduced
significantly thanks to simple automation
and integrated management tools.
This means that dedicated IT teams can finally start spending time on
the tasks they really want to do. They can make the most of their expertise
and start driving the business forward instead of just fighting fires in the
data center. From a management perspective, this opens up even more
opportunities to cut costs by more efficiently allocating the staff and skills
that are available.
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THE CHANGING ROLE OF IT
Components aren’t just
selected to work together;
they are co-engineered
to get the most from
one another right from
the beginning of their
development. The result is
simplified IT systems that
deliver extreme levels of
performance, scalability,
and availability—and
streamline management
and operations.
When migrating to integrated systems, companies
can expect to spend less time on provisioning, planning,
and configuration management, and less time on new
service requests and approval management.
Thanks to the simplification of basic IT management
tasks, skill requirements are also changing. Integrated,
infrastructure-enabled IT departments still require staff
who can rapidly detect and remediate problems, but
emerging skills such as the ability to auto-scale resources
will quickly become high priorities.
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THE CHANGING ROLE OF IT
Oracle pioneered engineered systems more than six years ago and was the first vendor to integrate at every single layer of the IT stack.
Today, that experience
and market-leading
success has resulted in
the most comprehensive
engineered systems
solutions available.
Organizations need to innovate to survive. Customers
are empowered with more information and choice than
ever before, and it’s up to you to do something new and
different to capture their attention. But it’s not just product
and service innovation that’s driving success—having the
resources to develop innovative new internal processes is
also critical for gaining competitive advantage.
Software and hardware systems engineered to work
seamlessly together free up your IT staff to focus more
on innovating for your business. By cutting the time and
resources spent on custom-building and maintaining an
inflexible IT and systems environment, you can make better
use of your employees’ skills and expert knowledge by
enabling them to develop and implement game-changing
ideas that drive your business forwards.
“The drivers for going to converged weren’t just cost- related. It was really about the ability for IT to be more responsive to the business.”
“Converged and Integrated Systems: State of the Market and Future Outlook Report,” IDC 2014
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THE IMPACT ON INNOVATION
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When you’re creating and rolling out innovative new products, services,
and processes, you need to know that you’re supported by a comprehensive
and flexible platform. For your new ideas to succeed, your systems must
enable you to launch them as simply as possible—with the minimum
interruption to existing services.
IDC survey participants expect that approximately 50% of compute,
storage and network resources and workloads will run on integrated
systems by end of 2015. “Converged and Integrated Systems: State
of the Market and Future Outlook Report,” IDC 2014
Integrated systems make the process so much simpler. They give organizations
the performance, availability, agility, scalability, and customizability that they need
to innovate with confidence—safe in the knowledge that their IT environment
can comfortably support their new initiatives. By using integrated systems to
innovate, businesses can ultimately:
+ Reach customers with new
products and services before
competitors do
+ Improve the efficiency of existing
processes and adopt new ones
without hassle
+ Test innovation scenarios and
eliminate issues early on in the
development process
+ Capitalize on emerging
opportunities faster
THE IMPACT ON INNOVATION
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The result is a more flexible business that can innovate freely,
pursue emerging opportunities without worry, and use new
capabilities to stay ahead of the market and competitors.
As the pioneer of integrated systems, Oracle understands
organizations’ growing hunger for speed and scalability, and
utilizes in-house expertise and a wealth of experience to
preintegrate its solutions for success. Oracle’s prebuilt solutions
are specifically engineered to deliver extreme value straight out
of the box, and help organizations focus time and resources on
making IT work better.
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THE IMPACT ON INNOVATION
Oracle has shipped more than
10,000 engineered systems to
organizations in a vast range of
industries, all over the globe.
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Tier1
CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT
As a leading provider of business consulting solutions and 24/7
managed services for Oracle Applications, Tier1 delivers high-quality
private cloud services for a range of Oracle and third-party applications.
With technology already engineered together, the Oracle Virtual Compute
Appliance was the ideal choice of engineered system for Tier1, allowing
it to spend more time adding value for its customers and less time
managing routine day-to-day issues.
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Tier1
CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT
Oracle made the difference at Tier1 with Virtual Compute Appliance,
an easy-to-deploy engineered system that provides the flexibility needed
for cloud computing and enables Tier1 to:
+ Deploy ready-to-run virtual
machines in minutes
+ Go from power-on to
production in an hour
+ Significantly accelerate
data processing
+ Simplify management of the
entire cloud lifecycle
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When you’re choosing new integrated systems for your organization,
there is an important question to ask at the start which vendor offers
everything you need to succeed?
Oracle engineered systems are powerful machines designed and optimized for a variety of workloads and applications to help you simplify IT. No other vendor offers the breadth of portfolio or trusted track record that Oracle does, helping customers achieve cost savings, simplify deployments and ongoing management, and innovate with ease and confidence.
Most integrated systems involve a loose collection of vendors that can never truly collaborate and often have conflicting release schedules and priorities. This can challenge or slow down innovation for the end user and the business.
Fueled by years of innovation, vision, and maturity in the integrated systems market, Oracle now has the most comprehensive offering available and has been recognized as a leader in Gartner’s April 2014 Integrated Systems Magic Quadrant Ranking.
THE ORACLEDIFFERENCE
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Oracle is the only systems vendor that engineers, implements, and maintains the entire technology stack, delivering true end-to-end integration among all components of a sophisticated, modern data center. And, if you’re already using Oracle solutions anywhere in your organization, no other vendor can even come close to the level of integration and optimization that Oracle has worked tirelessly to achieve with its engineered systems.
This cross-stack integration and optimization helps Oracle deliver extreme performance across the data center and achieve unrivaled efficiencies. It enables unique functionality such as deep data compression, smart caching for more efficient storage utilization, and optimized InfiniBand connectivity to simplify scalability. For you, it all adds up to getting the job done faster, better, and more efficiently than you imagined.
With a complete, integrated infrastructure from Oracle, service and maintenance become easier than ever before. Oracle engineered systems come with integrated support, offering 24/7 fault monitoring, fast request response times, and remote patch installation services—at no additional cost. With Oracle’s assistance, you can maximize system uptime, identify and resolve issues rapidly, and always have the peace of mind that our experts will be there to give you the help you need, when you need it most.
The overall reduction realized by applying all Oracle best practices to a traditional Oracle environment
is 41 percent. David Floyer, Wikibon article, “Duplicating Public Clouds for Oracle DBAs.”
THE ORACLEDIFFERENCE
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Thousands of customers across the globe have already discovered
the Oracle difference. Oracle has proven time after time that it can
deliver the highest levels of performance, deploy at extreme speeds,
and significantly drive down costs across the data center. Thanks to
results like this, Oracle has built strong and lasting relationships with
a huge range of globally-recognized organizations, and has worked
tirelessly to ensure these companies are backed up by systems,
software, and support that keep them ahead of the competition.
With Oracle, you get a complete solution. It begins with total
interoperability, predictability, and consistency; continues with
extreme performance and extensive functionality; and extends all
the way down to complete support for total peace of mind.
Organizations that are driven by innovation need confidence in their
systems, and that is what Oracle delivers every step of the way.
To learn more about Oracle engineered systems, and to discover how they can help your
organization cut costs, simplify IT, and drive innovation, visit www.oracle.com/engineered-
systems now or call +1.800.633.0738 and talk to an Oracle engineered systems expert today.
THE ORACLEDIFFERENCE