RAPID ORACLE DEPLOYMENTON IBM POWERSYSTEMS™:Cutting IT Implementation and Oracle Licensing Costs with Vendita Database Cloud Server

FOR MANY COMPANIES, ORACLE DATABASE DEPLOYMENT TIMELINES HAVE NOW BEEN COMPRESSED FROM MONTHS TO JUST WEEKS. This puts pressure on all critical planning, development, configuration, testing, and rollout phases. And once implemented, there is little margin for error where operational stability, data security, and integrity are at stake.

COST REDUCTION IS ANOTHER CRITICAL DRIVER FOR IT DEPARTMENTS: Not only are organizations demanding that new Oracle Database servers be implemented faster and at the lowest possible cost, but companies are also looking to minimize their Oracle licensing expenses. One effective way is to monitor unauthorized use of additional Oracle features that fall outside a company’s current licensing agreement, thus avoiding significant cost penalties after an audit.

Slow, inefficient Oracle Database deployment and excessive Oracle Database license footprints significantly increase IT labor and Oracle licensing costs.

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THE PROCESS OF PLANNING, DEVELOPING, TESTING, AND DEPLOYING A NEW ORACLE DATABASE SERVER for any business application usually involves different IT departments, which can lead to a lengthy, detailed, and often error-prone process.

SILOS WITHIN IT DEPARTMENTS HINDER RAPID ORACLE DATABASE SERVER DEPLOYMENT: Separate teams within IT departments — DBA, system administration, network engineering, and storage administration — create a silo effect, often adding steps and significant time delays to implement projects. And because it’s difficult to accurately estimate a new system’s peak workload requirement in advance, the final system may not deliver the performance demanded by its end users.

IT LABOR COSTS INCREASE SIGNIFICANTLY DUE TO THE RESULTING SCHEDULE DELAYS: Additionally, these issues can stall deployments by weeks or even months, resulting in even more cost overruns.

AS THIS PROCESS IS REPEATED ON EVERY PROJECT, THE EXTRA TIME ACCUMULATES INTO STAGGERING EXCESS LABOR COSTS EACH YEAR. For example, every 40 minutes of unnecessary time spent each day to perform a database-related task translates to 1.5 extra man-months during the year. When multiplied over the scores of developers, DBAs, sys admins, and others involved in these tasks, this excess time significantly adds to the enterprise’s overall IT labor costs.

Causes of Slow Oracle Database Server Deployments that Increase Costs

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Minutes saved each day on any Oracle Database-related provisioning or deployment task can add up to hundreds — or thousands — of hours in IT labor saved each year.

Server sprawl – the wasteful deployment of Oracle Databases – is another uncontrolled cost many IT departments face: Companies often deploy many Oracle Databases over time, with each residing on dedicated

servers. In addition, dedicated servers are often deployed for test and QA environments. This server sprawl leads to escalating IT labor and data center utility costs required to maintain and power each of these servers.

Reducing hours spent on Oracle Database deployment can significantly lower your IT personnel costs.

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VENDITA RECOGNIZED THESE CHALLENGES FOR COMPANIES RUNNING IBM POWER®, and developed the innovative Database Cloud Server (DCS). The DCS is a turnkey IBM POWER® solution fully integrated with Oracle Database, PowerVM, and AIX®, featuring Vendita’s Master Automation Sequencer (MAS) and license monitoring solution.

DCS PROVIDES IBM POWER® USERS WITH AN ENGINEERED SOLUTION that drastically reduces Oracle Database deployment timelines, while minimizing Oracle licensing costs.

THE SECURITY, STABILITY, SCALABILITY, AND PROCESSING CAPABILITY OF IBM POWER SYSTEMS™ PROVIDE MAJOR ADVANTAGES compared to x86, public cloud, and other alternatives. However, the DIY approach of deploying Oracle Databases on IBM POWER® can be complex, expensive and high risk, due to the delays in getting these new systems operational.

Rapid Oracle Deployment With Lower Oracle Licensing and IT Deployment Costs: Solutions for IBM Power Systems™ Customers

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The Vendita Database Cloud Server (DCS) is a pre-built solution on IBM POWER® that delivers Oracle and other databases out-of-the-box while eliminating the guesswork and complexity of standing up a new database server.

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Provision within days, and deploy new Oracle Database servers within an hour of on-premises delivery.

Accelerate new Oracle Database creation, configuration and monitoring with Vendita MAS Solutions Pacs.

Enable rapid, single-step provisioning to create new servers and databases without assistance using MAS.

Develop a secure private cloud rapidly and on premises with Oracle Database on IBM POWER®.

Minimize Oracle licensing costs with the 4:1 performance advantage of IBM POWER®.

Prevent Oracle license penalties by monitoring use of Oracle features with the MAS license monitoring Solutions Pac.

Cut ongoing IT labor expenses with highly efficient MAS automations.

Reduce IT overhead costs by consolidating current servers to fewer, higher performing DCS units built on IBM POWER® servers.

The DCS on IBM POWER® Helps YouSpeed Up Oracle Deployment Cut Your IT and Oracle

Licensing Costs

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Vendita’s DCS on IBM POWER® helps you rapidly deploy Oracle Database servers, drastically reducing timelines and significantly cutting Oracle licensing costs.

THESOLUTION

VENDITA DCS ON IBM POWER® INCLUDES OPERATING SYSTEM AND DATABASE SOFTWARE — PRE-INSTALLED — configured and optimized for rapid deployment and high performance.

DELIVERED FOR IMMEDIATE DEPLOYMENT WITH VIRTUALLY NO IN-HOUSE SETUP TIME: Configured for your network before it ships, the DCS arrives provisioned and pre-tested, reducing or eliminating the need for IT teams to perform on-site setup.

BRING A NEW ORACLE DATABASE SERVER ONLINE IN DAYS INSTEAD OF SIX WEEKS OR LONGER: DCS’s patented provisioning process delivers an IBM POWER® solution for Oracle Database, configured to customer-specific workload requirements and deployable within one hour of delivery.

CONFIGURE, DEPLOY, MANAGE AND MAINTAIN ORACLE DATABASE SERVERS WITH EASE AND SPEED TO SAVE IN-HOUSE IT EXPENDITURES: Vendita’s MAS automates system-level tasks required to create, configure, provision, and maintain Oracle Databases. MAS saves IT departments hundreds — or thousands — of hours otherwise spent by database and system administration teams.

RAPID PROVISIONING OF NEW ORACLE DATABASE SERVERS SAVES IT LABOR COSTS DURING DEPLOYMENT: Using the iOS-based user interface, private cloud Oracle Database servers can be set up and configured in minutes, without involving DBAs, sys admins, and other IT team members.

DCS on IBM POWER®: Rapid Oracle Deployment that Moves at the Speed of Your Business

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By automating the functions required to create, manage, and monitor an Oracle Database on IBM POWER®, MAS saves organizations hundreds — or thousands — of hours required to manually perform these tasks.

Master Automation Sequencer (MAS): Save Hours on Oracle Database Setup and Management

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SOURCE: “Evaluating and Comparing Oracle Database Appliance X5-2 Performance”URL: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/engineered-systems/database- appliance/documentation/oda-eval-comparing-performance-1895230.pdf

Cut Oracle Licensing Costs Immediately by Consolidating Existing Oracle Database Servers

8 x86 CORES x 0.5 CORE FACTOR= 4 ORACLE DATABASE LICENSES

Oracle Database Licensing Cost:

1 IBM POWER® CORE x 1.0 CORE FACTOR= 1 ORACLE DATABASE LICENSE

Oracle Database Licensing Cost:

$47,500$190,0004:1COST-PERFORMANCE ADVANTAGE

on DCS minimizes your Oracle Database licensing costs[ ]IN A TEST CONDUCTED BY ORACLE ON AN x86-BASED SERVER* USING THE SWINGBENCH OPEN-SOURCE LOAD TESTING AND BENCHMARKING TOOL TO PRESENT A WORKLOAD TO A DATABASE SERVER, the x86 server used 8 processor cores to run one million transactions per minute. The same test run on the DCS used just one IBM POWER® processor core to process the same number of transactions per minute.

DCS ALLOWS COMPANIES TO CONQUER SERVER SPRAWL WITH A SINGLE IBM POWER® SERVER, through fast, automated provisioning and Dynamic Logical Partition (DLPAR) creation. In addition, DCS can reduce Oracle costs, as well as associated data center expenses.

FUTURE-PROOF ORACLE DATABASE SERVERS THROUGH ON-DEMAND SCALABLE RESOURCES WITHOUT ADDING SERVER HARDWARE: The high performance and unique flexibility of DCS on IBM POWER® gives companies a degree of scalability not found in x86

FOUR ORACLE LICENSES ARE REQUIRED FOR EIGHT x86 CORES, COSTING $190,000: the core factor used as the basis for Oracle licensing identifies one x86 core as only 0.5 CPU. Thus, running this test required four Oracle licenses.

BY CONTRAST, DCS ONLY REQUIRES ONE ORACLE LICENSE, COSTING $47,500: Delivering a 4:1 cost-performance advantage, the DCS can significantly reduce your Oracle licensing exposure, without compromising performance.

or other hardware platforms. To handle increased Oracle Database workloads, organizations can simply allocate more processor cores to DLPARs to easily scale systems for growth, without buying additional servers, storage, and related hardware. The capability to scale the DCS offers significant hardware costs savings, and future-proofs infrastructure and database workload capacity for the entire 5-7 year lifespan of IBM POWER® servers.

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GET THE BENEFIT OF CLOUD WITHOUT THE SECURITY AND RUN-AWAY COST RISKS OF PUBLIC CLOUD SERVICES: Benefits of the DCS private cloud capability include ready, highly-scalable computing resources, easy provisioning, and time and cost savings for new database deployment. All these advantages come without the major security issues, pervasive data transfer costs, and intermingled customer resource concerns that prevent many companies from moving to the public cloud.

MAS ORACLE LICENSING SOLUTIONS PAC MONITORS ORACLE FEATURE USAGE that require additional licenses, such as Oracle’s Advanced Compression, Tuning and Diagnostics features.

WITH THE MAS ORACLE LICENSING SOLUTIONS PAC, USERS ARE NOW THE FIRST TO KNOW IF THEY’RE OUT OF COMPLIANCE, which can prevent having to pay thousands – or even millions – of dollars in recompense costs resulting from out-of-compliance issues found during an Oracle audit.

The MAS Oracle License Solutions Pac Saves Money by Monitoring Unauthorized Use of Additional Oracle Features

Enable Private Cloud Easily and Economically with DCS

Configuring a private cloud that runs Oracle Database on DCS delivers a flexible, easily scalable solution. This platform keeps high-value data secure and on-premises while giving IT teams all the advantages of running Oracle Databases in the cloud.

Rapidly and Easily Deploy a Private Cloud Environment with DCS

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VENDITA’S DCS IS AN IDEAL CHOICE FOR IT DEPARTMENTS CURRENTLY RUNNING IBM POWER®: Cut the time required to create new Oracle Databases. Reduce IT labor, provisioning, and deployment expenses. Minimize overall Oracle licensing cost.

VENDITA’S “TRY-BEFORE-YOU BUY” PROGRAM: To test-drive your workloads and evaluate their performance on DCS, arrange a no-obligation remote trial that will prove its capabilities to you and your IT team. Contact us at (844) 813-4619, or e-mail DCS-Info@Vendita.com.

Vendita is a collection of experts with experience working with technology giants, like Oracle and IBM, and a mission to simplify the process of purchasing, deploying, and managing our clients’ IT environments.

Our customers – and Oracle and IBM themselves – came to us in need of a way to bring Oracle software and databases together with IBM for a best-of-breed system. The Database Cloud Server is a revolutionary product with seamless software and hardware compatibility, functionality, and license monitoring.

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