Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) X6-2 Portfolio Overview

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• #3: Before we get started, I must share with you that information in this presentation is covered by this guidance.
• #4: So, let’s start at the top. For most IT shops, the databases – and the applications that use them – are incredibly important, perhaps more so than other parts of IT. Databases tend to hold the organization’s most important information. They power the applications that the business really cares about. For many, supporting databases represent a big chunk of the overall IT spend. Logically speaking, database infrastructure represents an excellent opportunity for optimization
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• #8: ODA is a complete, simple, reliable and affordable solution for running highly available databases and applications. ODA is a member of Oracle’s engineered systems product family and the software and hardware are engineered together (we’ll talk more about the advantages of Engineered Systems in more detail in a later slide. ODA is complete: software, server, networking, and storage ODA is an appliance that is easy to get up and running, saving customers time and effort not only at the initial installation, but throughout the life of the product (enabled by quarterly patch management of the entire stack and automation via the ODA Appliance Manager) ODA is reliable. The hardware and software are engineered together to ensure that the system is available and it does it transparently. ODA is affordable. You can license a subset of the CPU cores and grow your usage as demand grows, enabling you to more effectively manage capital expenses.
• #11: All photo licensed Business critical databases OLTP and data warehouses Runs Oracle’s high availability software suite including Oracle Real Application Clusters Consolidated databases Supports Multitenant and In-Memory database options Test and development databases Quickly and efficiently provision snapshots The next two slides cover the two ways customers use the Oracle Database Appliance: As a system to run their database As a system to run their complete application (middleware, business logic, database) As a Database Platform ODA can support: OLTP workloads Data Warehousing workloads Some customer start with a single mission critical database that has been problematic: Could be because of availability issues or performance issues. Most customers consolidate many databases onto a single ODA. They either start out with this in mind, or after they’ve used ODA for their most critical database workload they realize that ODA is an excellent platform for consolidating additional databases Customer also use ODA as a test and development platform to speed development (reducing time to value) and reduce the costs of supporting lots of databases for test and development (cost of the time to create and manage many databases and the cost savings from not having to purchase lots of additional storage)
• #18: Maximize Your Return on IT Resources Everything necessary for a database solution in a single appliance Breaks the dependency on others for specialized expertise Easy and fast to order: 1 part number buys it all Best practices and automation speeds time to market Quickly deploy entire platform for any x86 application Integrated backup to Oracle Cloud Includes 1 year of Oracle Cloud Backup for up to 1 TB of data Oracle Database Appliance can also be used as a complete application platform Hosting all tiers of an application on a single platform, in a compact, highly available platform We call this a Solution-in-a-Box Oracle applications include: JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Flexcube, Weblogic, Enterprise Manager and many more ISV have also made their solutions available, including: IFS (Enterprise Resource Management: ERP), mFormation (mobile device management) and Temenos (Bank in a Box) Customers can also deploy their internally developed applications As we’ll discuss later in this presentation, it is easy to rapidly deploy not only HA enabled Databases, it is also easy to rapidly deploy all tiers of an application solution. Host all tiers (web, middleware, database) on a single system Simplifies deployment and reduces data center footprint Ideal for branch office and remote deployments Solution-in-a-box made easy with comprehensive bestpractices white papers and automation wizards Oracle applications JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Flexcube,Weblogic, Enterprise Manager, etc. ISV applications IFS, mFormation, Temenos, etc. Customer developed applications
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• #20: There are several factors that make Oracle Database Appliance more affordable. As we just discussed, with the expansion of the Oracle Database Appliance portfolio, we now have models available at a significantly lower cost—one quarter of the original price point Second, Oracle Database Appliance allows customers to reduce operational expenses. Because it reduces complexity, you need fewer, expensive, highly-skilled resources Third, with Oracle Database Appliance, you can lower software costs through capacity-on-demand licensing, which is available when you’re running Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. Here’s a quick example Let’s say you are building your own database system and buy a 10-core x86 server. With Oracle Database licensing, it’s required that you license all the cores up front. When you buy new hardware, you buy it to support your business for three-to-five years, so initially, you are likely buying more capacity than you’ll use. That means you are paying for licensing today you don’t need. In this example, you only need two cores initially to run your business. With Oracle Database Appliance and capacity-on-demand licensing, you only have to pay for the two cores you need to run your businesses. In this case, 1 license. When you need more it’s easy to turn on the additional cores. In this example, the customer saved almost 200K on licensing costs alone. So basically, you license a subset of the CPU cores—giving you the capability to quickly scale quickly without any hardware upgrades. (The Oracle Database Appliance X5-2 scales to 72 cores. Oracle Database Appliance X6-2M scales up to 20 cores, and Oracle Database Appliance X6-2S scales up to 10 cores.) You buy what you need now and incrementally grow as demand dictates. This avoids the usual costs and valuable time spent on a typical hardware upgrade, and enables you to deliver the performance and high availability that business users demand as they align software spending with business growth. With a build-your-own solution, you have to license all cores on day one, whether you need them or not. ************************************************ Note: On Intel processor-based servers, the core factor is .5.
• #23: The Database Appliance is a database optimized solution. Similar configurations from Dell and HP do not offer the tight integration of hardware and software that only Oracle can provide. As you can see, the database appliance offers savings of time and money over both of these competitors. From automated patching, to saving money on overall licensing costs, the database appliance is a proven, highly available database platform. The solutions from Dell and HP will require more time, specialized resources and $$ to get a highly available platform deployed. The Database Appliance’s ease of installation and support is unmatched by a “build your own” model. The Dell and HP models are relatively the same in cost. The was estimated in June 2016.