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Simplify and consolidate to increase efficiency, reduce complexity and costs.
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"Today's IT infrastructure has served us well. For the past forty years, CIOs have used the tools available to them to build platforms that are integrated, complex, and supported a range of business applications using monolithic and proprietary technology. This vast install base can be brought along with tomorrow's IT demands using industry standard platforms and business processes such as consolidation and virtualization. In doing so, IT is replacing complexity with simplicity, rigidity with flexibility, and ultimately unlocking the business value with technology.
-- Vernon Turner, GVP and General Manager, IDC, July 2006
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Impelled by historic business imperatives, your IT infrastructure is a product of long evolution. That's how it got so complex. Fortunately, modern enterprise architectures built on open systems are putting IT in a position to implement change as never before in order to achieve new levels of effectiveness. With the growing demands of business, IT departments need better alternatives to expensive, proprietary, and inflexible computing architectures. Industry leaders Intel, HP, and Oracle are working together to enable you to achieve new levels of operational efficiency and rapidly deliver new capabilities with mainframe-class quality of service through IT modernization, platform migration, and data-center consolidation.
An ideal foundation for a next-generation data center
Server technology continues to advance, making flexible capacity and the ability to efficiently adjust to changes in real time a reality. HP Integrity platforms based on Intel® Itanium® 2 processors in combination with Oracle software provide an ideal foundation for data-center consolidation and those next-generation IT solutions. HP Integrity servers based on Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and Oracle Grid Computing offer IT organizations the ability to move away from expensive, proprietary computing models, while maintaining the mainframe-class reliability, scalability, and serviceability that business counts on. Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 processors deliver new levels of energy-efficient performance, reliability, and cost-effective scalability to handle your most data-intensive analysis and business applications. By delivering high-end computing capabilities on a standards-based architecture, Itanium-based HP Integrity servers using Oracle database and Application Server grids bring choice, flexibility, and affordability to mission-critical computing.
• Intel White Paper: End of The Proprietary Era
• Intel Whitepaper: Mainframe Reliability at Mainstream Prices
• HP White Paper: Adaptive Infrastructure: The Foundation for an Adaptive Enterprise
• HP White Paper: Application Modernization with HP
• HP White Paper: Transforming Your Enterprise
• Intel Brief: Transforming Data-Intensive Computing
• Intel White Paper: Free Yourself From RISC: Drive Your Business Forward
• Oracle White Paper: Grid Computing with Oracle
• Intel Case Study: Dupont finds the Right Formula
• Intel Website: www.intel.com/go/itanium
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Maximize IT business value with consolidation, virtualization, and automation
Consolidation, virtualization, and automation naturally emerge as logical ways to maximize the business value of this data-center investment.
Resource consolidation and virtualization techniques built on Intel Virtualization technology, Oracle Grid Computing, and the HP Virtual Server Environment help you reduce the time, labor, and cost of IT operations by pooling industry-standard software, servers, and storage into an adaptable infrastructure that appears as a single environment to users, and dynamically provides capabilities to meet changing business demands. These virtualization capabilities help customers and partners achieve the highest levels of efficiency from their IT investments, including hardware, software, and, most importantly, labor. Virtualization and Grid Computing relieve IT professionals from time-consuming, repetitive administrative work, enabling them to focus more on innovation and solving business problems. Having better access to more flexible capacity contributes directly to IT productivity by allowing more work to get done with less.
Automation provides a path to increased efficiency as well. Tools such as HP's global Workload Manager (gWLM) and HP's Virtual Server Environment can automatically adjust computing resources based on service-level and business-priority needs. Oracle delivers similar benefits through Oracle Grid Computing and Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control (Oracle Grid Control). Oracle Database 10g, for example, provides self-managing features that help customers to speed statistics collection, instance and memory tuning, and more. All of this makes it easer to automate routine administrative tasks, greatly reducing the management burden. That can translate immediately into substantial cost savings and more effective database administration.
Learn more about the value that HP, Intel, and Oracle bring to market:
• Intel-HP-Oracle White Paper: The Future Is Now
• HP and Intel Case Study: Burdadigital
• Intel White Paper: Mainstreaming Server Virtualization: The Intel Approach
• Intel White Paper: Consolidation Strategies for Intel® Processor-based Servers
• Intel Case Study: Brisbane City
• Intel White Paper: Enhanced Virtualization on Intel® Architecture-based Servers
• Oracle Data Sheet: Oracle Database 10g
• HP White Paper: HP Virtual Server Environment Reference Architecture for
Oracle® RAC
• HP Brochure: Is Your Mainframe Agile, Responsive, and Cost-effective?
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