Oracle Engineered Systems

ENGINEERED FOR INNOVATION

ORACLE ENGINEERED SYSTEMS

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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

TRANSFORMING AND SIMPLIFYING IT FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION

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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.

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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.”


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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


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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

THE CALL FOR A NEW BREED OF IT INFRASTRUCTURE

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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


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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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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

THE ORACLEDIFFERENCE

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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.


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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.”


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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.


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