CBR (Computer Business Review) is the leading monthly magazine and online presence for the senior IT professional, with a 15-year pedigree of delivering unbiased, entertaining IT news and analysis.

In this recorded panel debate, Jason Stamper, CBR Editor, hosts the debate covering the latest challenges in the datacenter, and some potential strategies to overcome them. Of course, it’s not long before the discussion turns to private and hybrid cloud computing.

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IBM’s Dynamic Infrastructure strategy provides businesses with the processes and tools needed to achieve these goals. Encompassing IT and business assets, IBM’s strategy enables organisations to rethink their approach to infrastructure management, resulting in higher service levels, lower costs and reduced risk.
This briefing paper explores the best practice processes and technologies needed to establish a Dynamic IT Infrastructure. From virtualisation and automated management to energy efficiency and business resilience, this paper will help you optimise IT to deliver greater business value.

Find out how your organisation can improve service, reduce cost and manage risk with a Dynamic IT Infrastructure.

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Virtualisation and optimisation are key to driving IT agility and creating a converged infrastructure that can be rapidly customised to meet changing business demand.

Our white paper, Empowering the Business with Agile IT, explores the strategies, best practices and HP technologies that will help your organisation facilitate growth, reduce costs and mitigate risk.

From network virtualisation and dynamic patching to intelligent power management and integrated blade systems, you will discover how to unlock greater business value from your datacentre.

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The system – also known as Exadata – combines Oracle’s smart storage software and Sun hardware to deliver exceptional levels of database performance. It is also the first database machine to run transaction processing applications.

Organisations will be able to validate the benefits of migrating existing workloads to the new platform at Computacenter’s unique testing facility, the Solutions Centre.

Assessing the ROI

A long-term partner of both Oracle and Sun, Computacenter is well positioned to help businesses with their evaluation and implementation of the new technology.

Neill Burton, Datacentre Solutions Director at Computacenter, comments:

“By bringing together our software and hardware knowledge we can help clients understand the impact of Oracle’s integrated products, such as the Sun Oracle Database Machine. The expected performance of this technology is outstanding and we expect it to provide substantial benefits to clients looking to increase efficiency and reduce costs.”

According to Oracle, which acquired Sun last year, its new database machine will enable organisations to:

• Consolidate their database applications
• Make faster business decisions in real time
• Store up to 10 times more data
• Search data up to 10 times faster

“Using our proof of concept facilities at the Solutions Centre, businesses can validate these benefits based on their own workloads,” comments Burton. “As a result, they can clearly see the expected return on investment before making the decision to migrate.”

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The Sun Oracle Database Machine is designed to increase data bandwidth between the database server and storage to overcome the limitations of conventional storage. It provides faster parallel data processing and less data movement through higher bandwidth connections, offering linear scalability and mission-critical reliability.

To provide customers with an introduction to the Sun Oracle Database Machine and its underlying technologies, we are organising two exclusive seminars. The events will explore how the system can help mitigate business risk and increase efficiency, and will include customer success stories.

The free half-day seminars will take place on 25th May in Edinburgh and 17th June in London. You can find out more details and register below:

• 25th May Edinburgh – register here
• 17th June London – register here

To find out more about Computacenter’s proof of concept services for the Sun Oracle Database Machine, email us at Optimised.Environment@computacenter.com or click here to read the press release.