Oracle has unveiled new bundled offerings around its x86 servers, entry-level SPARC servers and storage solutions to enable mid-sized organization drive superior consolidation and virtualization as they embrace cloud computing. This new Volume Business Initiative will be driven through partners and is being rolled out across APAC markets.
Stuart Long, Chief Technology Officer & Senior Sales Consulting Director, Systems Division, Asia-Pacific and Japan, Oracle Corporation, said, “Oracle’s new bundled offerings address these challenges as these include built-in operating system, virtualization, infrastructure provisioning and system management in one integrated stack. In addition, taking advantage of Oracle hardware and software engineered together, all these components are tested together and supported together by one vendor – Oracle.”
The largest cost drivers in a multi-vendor virtualized infrastructure are software licensing and support for operating system and virtualization. These bundles include a complete, virtualized infrastructure (at no additional cost) that is certified and fully supported with Oracle applications and databases, avoiding the complexity of dealing with multiple vendors for support. It is a single-vendor solution for the entire hardware and software stack from application to disk that can be deployed in hours rather than weeks.
These bundles deliver a complete, virtualized infrastructure that is secure, highly scalable and comes at an excellent price and performance benefits.
“We realize that the needs of mid-sized customers are the same as large enterprises. However, for mid-sized customers, time is critical and therefore there is a demand to invest in easy-to-implement technology solutions so that the benefits can start showing quickly,” said Mitesh Agarwal, CTO & Director - Systems Solution Consulting, Oracle India. “These new bundles do exactly that by helping mid-sized companies easily upgrade, consolidate and virtualize their existing IT infrastructure, at a very affordable cost, thus enabling them to build a strong foundation for cloud adoption.”
