Oracle price/performance

Rob Shenk

GridwiseTech's “Oracle price/performance” program is designed for existing and future Oracle customers who need to manage their growing data needs with Oracle. We can help you define and implement your IT strategy.

We build efficient, scalable and reliable Oracle infrastructures, matching the needs of growing enterprises. We deploy new installations as well as repair existing, underperforming architectures. The first step is analysis on a business and technical level, identifying current and future needs. This concludes with recommending the most cost-effective strategy, combined with an executable road-map. The path to take is determined by the economic factors that matter to you: ROI, risk, and deployment time.

The “Oracle price/performance” program is offered by GridwiseTech in partnership with Oracle, the market leader of data management software.

Why start with a business/IT audit?

Data in Oracle can be managed using numerous patterns, both in monolithic and distributed architectures. An introduction to the topic can be found in this whitepaper. Solutions differ in direct and indirect costs, risk, deployment time, but above all – performance and scalability.

What is scalability?

A scalable system grows together with the business it supports, maintaining a constant quality of service, no matter what the load is. A well known example is Google's search engine, where a query always takes a fraction of a second, even though the amount of data indexed and user load keeps growing.

Is scalability the same as speed?

A scalable system is usually fast, but not all fast systems are scalable.

A dollar spent on the wrong license or hardware unit will become a loss on the balance sheet. It is crucial to proceed methodically when taking IT decisions. Momentum Methodology is used to forecast business needs and plan cost-effective IT infrastructures that meet them, avoiding wasted investment.

Aim: scalability and performance

Business intelligence processing has a significant affect on enterprises operations. Delays in system response lead to out-of-date reports that hinder decision makers. Enterprise data growth is compounded by dynamic market development and the ever increasing IT loads. With forward thinking strategy you can prevent systems reaching their limits and avoid expensive short-term fixes.

Methods to improve the efficiency of database systems range from internal database optimization to the use of scalable techniques. Among others, these include:

In-memory databases
Distributed caching systems
Database clustering

GridwiseTech helps you select the right technologies that meet your needs, paired together with an executable road-map.

Aim: Consolidate

What is consolidation?

A truly consolidated IT infrastructure has resource utilization of 80 – 90%. No more dedicated machines for infrequent peak loads. IT is able to scale on demand to meet business SLAs. It is achieved by combining workloads from separate servers into a smaller number of servers, often using virtualization technology. Consolidation frees IT to do more.

On average 65 – 70% of IT budget spending is on maintenance and ongoing operations. These costs are attributed to staffing, datacenter infrastructure and licensing fees. By controlling this spending you can significantly reduce your IT budget and free up funds for innovative projects that target revenue growth.
IT consolidation can generate substantial savings through:

Optimized hardware utilization with reduced infrastructure (servers, power, etc.)
Support BC, HA and DR
Streamline IT management, licensing and support fees
Rapid time-to-market – faster server and application deployment

GridwiseTech realizes IT consolidation through Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, server virtualization and Cloud enabling technologies. Enterprises can tap into our unique experience to deliver ROI.

Aim: reliability

Reliability is a core quality of any IT system. The success of an enterprise

What is high availability?

A system is highly available (HA) when the business processes that it supports are unaffected by outages. 99% availability is insufficient for many enterprises as users will experience over 7 hours of downtime over the month. A true “HA” system has 99.999% availability with at most 26 seconds of downtime over the month.

directly depends on data being available. Huge losses result from outages and even planned downtime incurs considerable expense. A stable and reliable IT system should provide:

Data Integrity, remove risk of corrupt data
High Availability, ensure Business Continuity
Disaster Recovery, protect against data loss and recover to a state before the outage

GridwiseTech helps to define and deploy the optimal strategy to achieve reliability. We deploy mechanisms to monitor the system, perform periodic backups and recover systems to the state before they crashed. We enable highly available system using techniques such as real time data replication, clustering, active backup (Live Standby), among many others.

How we differ?

Our expertise is focused on a narrow niche: scalability and efficiency.
Our Momentum Methodology delivers cost-effective and precise recommendations.
We are trusted by Global Fortune 500 enterprises. Testimonials are provided by satisfied customers from the USA, Europe and Asia.
Our consultation is independent and objective.

How do I start?

By calling or writing to us. We will send explanatory materials, present details and gladly meet to explain and answer your questions. In our cost-free initial evaluation, we will demonstrate how your business will benefit.