Oracle Magazine - September/October 2007 - Marcelo Machado

The speed and unpredictability of business cycles
have pushed the limits of information technology (IT)
infrastructures at many enterprises. Organizations need to
become more adaptable, but often their information systems
are slow to respond. At the same time, these enterprises
want to gain greater efficiency and effectiveness from their
IT systems, lower the cost of computing, and optimize their
business outcomes.
HP has a tradition of helping customers profit from new IT
innovations. As enterprises all over the world discover that
they need new levels of availability and integration—in real
time—they are turning to HP. HP Integrity, HP ProLiant, and
HP BladeSystem servers offer the highest levels of service
of any platform in their class. HP storage systems scale to
meet the most demanding customer workloads. HP software
provides a leading management platform for the data center,
plus tools such as HP LoadRunner and Quality Center
software, to help customers optimize their environments. In
other words, HP provides all of the components of an agile,
high-performance, highly available data center, thus helping
customers achieve better business outcomes.
HP also has a long history of working with Oracle. And
Oracle Database 11g will be an integral part of HP’s customer
solutions.
“Oracle Database 11g, with its low-cost maximum availability
architecture, combined with HP’s software, servers,
and storage, provides an opportunity for customers to take
advantage of this next level of IT innovation and, in turn, achieve
better business outcomes,” says Ron Eller, vice president and
general manager, enterprise solution alliances, at HP.
A TOTAL SOLUTION
HP and Oracle share more than 100,000 customers, from
small and medium businesses to large enterprises. The
breadth and depth of this joint solution stack—including HP/
Oracle reference architectures, applications, and operating
systems—allow these two partners to provide customers
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with a total solution. “For customers who want to optimize
their business outcomes, HP and Oracle together offer the
products, services, and experience to accelerate business
growth, mitigate risks, and lower costs, providing a solid
return on IT investments,” explains Eller.
The companies have invested heavily in their joint
solutions. In fact, HP and Oracle manage 13 competency
centers across the globe that provide proofs of concept;
design, configuration, and benchmarking assistance; thought
leadership; and training.
HP has been involved in the Oracle Database 11g beta
program for more than a year. As an Oracle database
customer, HP gained insight into how the new release would
help the company improve its business. At the same time, as
an Oracle partner participating in the beta program, HP lent
its perspective and expertise to Oracle’s development team
to make the new database release even better.
For example, HP worked with Oracle to incorporate HP’s
industry-leading network-attached storage solution directly
into the Oracle Direct network file system (Oracle Direct
NFS) The result? With Oracle Database 11g, customers
can realize scalable and available I/O performance on
network-attached storage that was not previously possible.
In addition, this combination of Oracle and HP technology
can leverage existing storage area networks, providing
customers with investment protection while allowing
flexibility for growth with mitigated risk.
“We’re excited that Oracle has developed its [Oracle]
Direct NFS feature in Oracle Database 11g on HP Storage
products so that customers can choose simple, inexpensive
storage connectivity and provisioning for grid deployment,”
says Eller. “It’s just another example of the way Oracle
and HP work together to provide customers with better
overall answers.”
HP and Oracle share a common goal of improving their
customers’ business outcomes through IT. Because IT isn’t a
separate piece of the business—IT helps drive the business.