2. Simplify IT
New industry trends such as mobility and big data are putting
tremendous pressures on the application infrastructure inside
today’s data centers.
Spiraling power and cooling costs, unplanned
downtime, and the need for new services
to support a demanding, “always on” user
community—these new challenges simply
can’t be met with endless farms of application
silos running on aging hardware technologies.
Successful IT organizations are implementing
more-efficient technologies and processes,
and investing the resulting savings back into
their companies to develop innovative business
services that drive top- and bottom-line growth.
These organizations understand that
eliminating complexity and simplifying IT
not only lowers operating costs but can also
drive better productivity. By refreshing older
server and storage hardware with the latest
generation of faster, more efficient systems,
they are delivering performance improvements,
productivity gains, and cost savings that give
them a quantifiable return on investment
and a real competitive advantage within
their industry.
3. Building the Business Case
Upgrading your hardware can help you:
• Boost performance and availability
for mission-critical applications
• Reduce total cost of ownership with
lower acquisition and operating expenses
• Reduce time needed to deploy
new applications
• Improve hardware utilization
• Improve eco-efficiency to bring down
energy and cooling costs
• Shrink space requirements with powerful,
high-density servers and storage
• Scale quickly to address dynamic
business needs
• Simplify compliance to meet changing
regulatory mandates
Oracle’s world-class products and services
help you identify and implement the best
upgrade or consolidation project to address
your specific business and budgetary needs.
Better still, the project can be done securely
and with minimal disruption to your business.
This e-book is a short introduction to the
benefits that can be gained by modernizing
a legacy infrastructure with Oracle’s industry-
leading hardware systems and supporting
programs and services. At the end of this
e-book, you’ll find links to resources to help
set you on a path that meets your specific
business needs.
Ravi Pendekanti
VP, Systems Product Marketing
Oracle
4. Servers
The latest generation of Oracle’s comprehensive portfolio of
servers delivers extreme performance, simplified management, and
dramatic efficiency gains—helping you increase availability, drive
productivity gains, and reduce data center costs.
Oracle’s SPARC Servers
Oracle’s SPARC servers running Oracle Solaris
operating system are the best systems for
mission-critical enterprise applications that
require high performance, security, and
scalability. Oracle’s SPARC server family
includes systems designed for optimal
performance on all application tiers, from
highly concurrent Web applications to complex
enterprise applications and data warehouses.
Upgrading to the latest generation of Oracle’s
SPARC servers can bring instant benefits to
your business, helping you deliver:
• World record performance for both vertically
and horizontally scaled environments
• Unparalleled reliability and availability for
mission-critical enterprise computing
• Unmatched security with on-chip encryption
and the Oracle Solaris security framework
• Tight integration with the complete Oracle
hardware, middleware, and software stack
• Considerable cost savings with improved
processor core factors for reduced Oracle
software licensing costs
• Improved system utilization with
no-cost virtualization
• Simplified management and cloud
deployments with Oracle Enterprise
Manager Ops Center 12c
Learn more about Oracle’s installation,
configuration and mission critical support
services for Oracle Systems
5. SPARC SuperCluster T4-4
SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 is an engineered
system for server consolidation and mission-
critical enterprise applications that combines
the high-performance computing power of the
SPARC T4-4 server, the unmatched scalability
of Oracle Solaris 11, the database optimization
of Oracle Exadata, and the accelerated
processing of Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud.
Oracle has brought together the very best of
its high-performance technologies to deliver
a single machine that is optimized to run
complex multitier application workloads faster
than ever before, enabling you to:
• Get world record performance
at a fraction of the cost
• Scale seamlessly to meet changing
business needs
• Consolidate affordably with no-cost
virtualization
• Gain enhanced security with no
performance penalty
• Boost productivity with streamlined
systems management
• Achieve ROI in just six months with rapid
deployment of a pre-optimized system
• Consolidate up to 100 legacy midrange
servers to a single SPARC SuperCluster
A Technical Overview of the Oracle SPARC
SuperCluster T4-4
Matthew Clark
Senior Director, IT
Qualcomm
The New SPARC T4 Processor Delivers Even More
Oracle’s latest SPARC T-Series servers feature
the revolutionary SPARC T4 processor, delivering:
• Up to 5 times better single-thread performance
over the previous generation of T-Series processors
• Up to 7 times better floating point performance
• Integrated on-chip cryptographic acceleration
for 16 popular ciphers
6. Servers
SPARC T-Series Servers
Oracle’s SPARC T-Series rack and blade servers
running Oracle Solaris are ideal for enterprise-
class and mission-critical applications cloud
deployments, as well as consolidation projects
requiring a single server. They can support
a diverse set of single and multithreaded
workloads across the middleware and
applications tiers.
• Achieve up to 5 times better performance
for single-threaded application workloads
• Scale affordably by consolidating
applications onto a single, highly expandable
server with integrated, no-cost virtualization
• Protect critical data and services with
wire-speed encryption
Oracle’s SPARC T4-1, SPARC T4-2, SPARC
T4-4 and SPARC T4-1B Server Architecture
SPARC M-Series Servers
Oracle’s SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers
running Oracle Solaris provide an always-
on platform for mission-critical applications,
allowing you to:
• Simplify consolidation with built-in
virtualization at no additional cost
• Reduce the cost of providing
high-availability features
• Deliver the highest performance and
scalability for complex application workloads
• Protect your investments with nondisruptive
upgrades that work with your existing systems
High Availability for Business-Critical IT
Services Using Oracle’s SPARC Enterprise
M-Series Servers
SPARC Enterprise M3000, M4000, M5000,
M8000, and M9000 Server Architecture:
Flexible, Mainframe-Class Compute Power
“Our benchmark testing of
Oracle’s SPARC T4 system on
our ERP system led to impressive
results. We saw performance
enhancements of up to 4 times
that of our legacy server. And
deployment was easy—just a
drop-in.”
Umberto Angelucci,
Chief Technology Officer,
SKY Italia
7. Oracle’s Enterprise x86 Servers
Oracle’s x86 rack and blade servers deliver
superior application performance while
dramatically lowering data center costs and
simplifying management and support with
built-in, application-aware virtualization and
management software at no additional cost.
Optimized to run Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris,
and Oracle VM, and engineered to maximize
performance across the enterprise IT stack,
Oracle’s x86 servers, based on current and
newly launched Intel Xeon chipsets, deliver:
• 50 percent lower TCO compared to HP and
IBM deployments using third-party operating
system and virtualization software
• Superior scalability with world-class
performance supporting virtualization
and consolidation
• Simplified management with Oracle
Integrated Lights Out Manager included
at no additional cost
x86 and SPARC-Based Blade
Modular Systems
Faster performance. Extreme cost-efficiency. The
industry’s smallest carbon footprint. These are
just a few of the reasons to upgrade to Oracle’s
latest modular blade systems, which integrate
robust x86 and SPARC-based servers, storage,
and advanced networking capabilities to support
a complex and dynamic mix of IT workloads.
• Unparalleled flexibility to match the
right servers to the right workloads
• Reduced risk during deployment and
in production environments
• The lowest TCO for any virtualized
blade solution
The Industry’s Best x86 Platform for
Running Oracle Enterprise Applications
Download the white paper “Improving
Data Center Infrastructure with Oracle
x86 Systems”
“By using SPARC M-Series servers
we get higher performance with a
[smaller] footprint less energy, more
power—it just makes sense.”
Robert Yanckello,
Chief Technology Officer,
University of Central Florida
8. Oracle Solaris
Operating System
Oracle Solaris 11 is the first
operating system engineered
for the cloud. With advanced
functionality, improved
security, and breakthrough
ease of management, Oracle
Solaris 11 builds on the
success of Oracle Solaris
as the world’s #1 enterprise
operating system.
And with the Oracle Solaris 100 percent binary
compatibility guarantee, you can upgrade to
the most efficient, powerful, and secure UNIX
operating system without having to make
changes to your existing applications. In fact,
by allowing you to run more applications faster
than ever on fewer servers, Oracle Solaris 11
running on Oracle’s SPARC systems offers
dramatic improvements in utilization, application
performance, and data center efficiency.
9. Only Oracle Solaris 11 delivers:
• Streamlined management and minimized
downtime for all your systems, with Oracle
Enterprise Manager Ops Center included
at no additional charge as part of Oracle
Premier Support
• Zero overhead virtualization with Oracle
Solaris Zones, allowing huge numbers of
workloads to be consolidated onto a
single system
• Optimized performance for Oracle
software with up to 3 times better Oracle
Database performance, and 5 times better
performance for Java applications
• Complete investment protection with 100
percent binary compatibility guaranteed and
continued support for more than 11,000
third-party applications
Solaris 11 Overview
Find out more on Solaris 11
On-Demand Online Forum: Oracle Solaris 11:
What’s New Since the Launch
Optimize Your Data Center with SPARC
and Solaris 11
“The SPARC T4 platform is a huge
part of our virtualization effort, and
we’re very impressed with the
performance capabilities it has
shown. Whenever we need an
application to be highly reliable,
we run it on Oracle Solaris and
the SPARC T4 platform.”
Matthew Clarke,
Senior Director of IT,
Qualcomm
10. Storage
Oracle offers a complete
portfolio of best-in-class
storage products and business-
ready storage solutions that
optimize performance, maximize
data protection, and reduce the
total cost of ownership for
Oracle Databases, applications,
and heterogeneous data
management.
Disk Storage: Flexible NAS and SAN
Storage Solutions
Oracle offers both network attached storage
(NAS) and storage area network (SAN) products,
providing best-in-class choices for enterprise
database or application environments, virtualized
or cloud infrastructures, backup and recovery
needs, and data center consolidation projects.
Simplified storage management – is that
even possible in today’s complex data
centers? Oracle’s Aaron Newcomb goes on
a fact finding mission, and discovers that
it IS possible to simplify your storage with
the advanced analytics and management
interface of the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance.
11. “With Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance,
we’ve created a highly available and scalable
storage environment for our growing
content-on-demand service. The robust set
of data services available with the systems,
and not having to spend more money to
license them separately, made economic
sense and simplified our installation. As
important, we’ve been able to use the robust
environment to support revenue streams,
such as providing content to other cable
networks and creating an online store for
premium, paid digital entertainment.”
Christine McKinlay, Manager,
Video Applications and
Application Platforms,
Rogers Communications Inc.
Sun ZFS Storage Appliances
Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliances provide enterprise-class NAS performance, outstanding ease
of management, and the lowest total cost of ownership by combining third-generation software with
high-performance controllers, flash-based caches, and disks.
This award-winning storage simplifies data center administration and delivers the flexibility to handle
an ever-increasing volume of data, allowing you to:
• Improve efficiency and reduce required
storage capacity with built-in, inline
duplication and compression capabilities
• Speed data center and application
performance with Oracle’s unique hybrid
storage pools architecture
• Save time and improve productivity
with an easy-to-use management
interface and the industry’s most
advanced storage analytics
• Provide world-class data protection
and disaster recovery at a lower TCO
• Accelerate business performance through
tight integration with Oracle software and
Oracle engineered systems
12. Storage
PILLAR AXIOM STORAGE SYSTEM
Oracle’s Pillar Axiom storage system provides best-in-class SAN consolidation, predictable
performance, automated management, and cost-effective scalability for dynamic, multiapplication
storage environments. It offers a robust next-generation platform for reducing cost and complexity,
enabling you to:
• Get more storage for less cost with an
innovative approach to storage consolidation
• Ensure predictable application
performance with breakthrough quality
of service software
• Improve capacity utilization with
thin provisioning
• Adapt dynamically to changing needs
with a uniquely flexible, modular architecture
• Enhance business performance with
tightly integrated Oracle software and Oracle
systems engineered to work together
14. Storage
Tape Storage: Powerful Archive Solutions
As the volume and value of the data stored by enterprises continues to grow, upgrading your tape
storage infrastructure can help you achieve unprecedented performance gains and cost savings.
StorageTek Tape Product Overview Video:
Lowering Total Cost of Ownership with
StorageTek Tape
StorageTek Tape Product Overview Video:
Industry-Leading StorageTek T10000C
Tape Drive
15. STORAGETEK TAPE
Oracle’s StorageTek tape products deliver
industry-leading quality and reliability features,
and unmatched data availability during
upgrades, expansion, and service. They can also
significantly reduce operating costs by lowering
power, cooling, and space requirements.
By refreshing your tape storage systems
with Oracle, you can benefit from:
• Increased throughput speed and
utilization for tape library functions
• Extended useful life for your current tape
library infrastructure
• Simple and cost-effective upgrades with
massive TCO savings especially when
upgrading to Oracle’s newest StorageTek
T10000C tape drives, which offer the
highest capacity in the industry
16. HARDWARE CONSOLIDATION
AND VIRTUALIZATION
Consolidating servers and
storage is essential to creating
a leaner, more efficient data
center—accelerating cloud
deployments, simplifying
systems management, and
maximizing cost savings.
Oracle’s complete portfolio of SPARC and
x86 systems offer built-in virtualization at
no additional cost, making it far simpler and
more affordable to implement consolidation
initiatives, whilst delivering application-driven
virtualization and integrated management,
optimizing application performance and
simplifying cloud deployments.
And with Oracle’s storage solutions you
can optimize the performance, security,
and manageability of your virtualized
infrastructure—reducing data center
costs and complexity, and expediting
cloud provisioning.
Boost Utilization and Cut Costs with
SPARC Consolidation and Virtualization
Watch this webcast and learn how Oracle’s
integrated no-cost virtualization capabilities
for SPARC servers enables consolidation of
applications on fewer, more powerful and
more efficient servers.
17. With Oracle’s consolidation and virtualization solutions you can:
• Improve system utilization to as high as
90 percent with almost unlimited partitioning
• Reduce space requirements by up to 80
percent with fewer higher-performance servers
• Decrease power consumption by up to
65 percent with more-efficient systems
• Integrate management of physical and
virtual environments in a single console
• Enable rapid, secure deployment of public,
private, and hybrid cloud infrastructures
• Deploy applications faster with full
production in minutes or hours, not days
or weeks
• Get big savings on Oracle licensing costs
with all SPARC virtualization solutions
“In the past, it used to take 6 to
10 weeks to provision a physical
server; with Oracle VM, we can
have a virtual machine up and
running in 35 minutes.”
Chris Perry,
Oracle Project Support Manager,
Parks Victoria
18. Oracle Optimized Solutions
Only Oracle can innovate at
every layer of the IT stack and
deliver combined hardware
and software solutions.
Oracle Optimized Solutions
offer proven blueprints
for modernizing Oracle
software environments.
Oracle Optimized Solutions are fully
documented, pretested and tuned
architectures made up of best-in-class Oracle
components - storage, servers, operating
systems, virtual machines, middleware,
database, and applications - that are tested
together to offer proven complete stack
solutions for the enterprise.
Marion Wilson
Solution Architect Design Group Manager
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
19. Oracle Optimized Solutions can be
implemented as complete solutions, or
as individual components in an existing
environment to help you:
• Optimize performance for a range
of Oracle applications
• Save up to 75 percent on operational
and acquisition costs compared to
competitive solutions
• Mitigate risk with fully documented,
pretested, and pretuned systems
• Accelerate time to value with up to 6 times
faster deployments
• Increase productivity with up to 11 times
faster transactional throughput
Oracle Optimized Solutions: Enterprise
Solutions for Mission-Critical Environments
- Learn how Oracle Optimized Solutions
allow you to lower total cost of ownership,
mitigate risk, and accelerate business agility
and user productivity
20. How to Get Started
Oracle offers the best options for safely modernizing your
IT infrastructure to meet your business needs for both today
and tomorrow.
Oracle minimizes the risks associated
with upgrading through a streamlined set
of programs and services, along with the
investment protection engineered directly
into the products. Oracle further simplifies
the technology refresh with preconfigured
systems such as SPARC SuperCluster T4-4
and pretuned architectures with Oracle
Optimized Solutions. You can also test your
new environment with a proof of concept at
one of Oracle’s global solutions centers.
Innovative financial offerings such as Oracle’s
Upgrade Advantage Program, which provides
trade-ins on existing Oracle and non-Oracle
systems, and Oracle Financing enable you to
take on technology refresh projects faster and
with lower upfront costs.
21. Trade In, Trade Up: Oracle’s Upgrade
Advantage Program
Trade-in aging hardware via the Upgrade
Advantage Program and get maximum trade-in
value while boosting performance, utilization,
security, and availability with your new
Oracle hardware.
With the Upgrade Advantage Program, legacy
Oracle/Sun customers can save big (up to 20
percent in some cases) with trade-in discounts
on Oracle’s server and storage systems and
components. It also includes an eco returns
program that recycles, reclaims, and reuses
components and entire systems. Oracle will
even pick up the older systems you trade-in
from your shipping dock at no charge to you.
Oracle Financing
Oracle Financing offers financing, leasing, and
flexible payment options to help you meet your
ongoing IT requirements. With flexible payment
structures spread over multiyear operating or
capital budgets, Oracle Financing helps simplify
budgeting with predictable payments.
These payment solutions provide the lowest
cost of entry for acquiring Oracle’s superior
technology, allowing you to maximize the
return on your IT investments, optimize
resource utilization, and increase IT
capabilities without a large cash outlay.
22. How to Get Started
Services
Oracle Advanced Customer Support Services
has the global experience and product
knowledge to deliver a faster more predictable
technology refresh or consolidation project.
Whether you are deploying a private cloud
infrastructure, migrating from older technology,
or simply optimizing an existing environment
through the use of virtualization technologies,
service engineers from Oracle can help.
Oracle Advanced Customer Support Services
offers a portfolio of modernization and
virtualization services from installation and
configuration assistance, to performance
reviews, monitoring and support of a
virtualized IT infrastructure.
Oracle Advanced Customer Support Services
delivers annual, fixed scope, and time and
materials services including the following:
• Production readiness services, including
installation and configuration, focused on
accelerating return on investment and
reducing risk.
• Production optimization services,
including configuration and performance
reviews, to continuously maximize availability
and improve performance.
• Annual services, including a Solution
Support Center, to provide tailored proactive
and preventive support services for mission
critical systems.
• Advanced monitoring resolution
services across the entire IT stack to
maximize availability.
• Advanced Support Engineers with
unparalleled support and operational
experience for all Oracle technology.
23. “I would recommend Oracle Advanced
Customer Support Services because they
provide comprehensive solutions… as well
as [an] onsite dedicated engineering team
to provide faster business solutions.”
The Oracle Support Advantage
Oracle Premier Support optimizes your
technology investments by providing the
essential services and resources your business
needs to maintain its performance and
availability SLAs. Coverage includes 24/7 rapid-
response hardware service, expert technical
support, powerful proactive tools, and updates
to Oracle operating systems, Oracle VM, and
integrated software (such as firmware).
Contact Oracle today to help assess your
current and future business needs. We will
work with you to identify the most beneficial
upgrade opportunities, assess the current
value of your existing assets, and map out
your future infrastructure.
Chandra Rapolu
IT Manager
CISCO Systems Inc.
“Oracle’s Sun infrastructure and
Oracle Premier Support ensure
that our critical research data
and systems are secure, always
available, and easy to access.”
Jake Carroll,
Information Technology Manager,
Queensland Brain Institute
24. Resources
Oracle Hardware
Oracle Systems Webcast Center
Next-Generation SPARC T4 Servers and
SuperCluster T4-4 Launch - Watch Oracle
Executives Larry Ellison and John Fowler
unveil the next-generation SPARC servers
and the SPARC SuperCluster T4-4
A New Approach to Data Center
Efficiency - Discover how Oracle’s new
approach to data center efficiency delivers
maximum flexibility, minimum overhead,
and extreme performance
Oracle Hardware: Reliable Systems for
the Most Demanding Environments -
See why the world’s leading businesses
deploy Oracle systems to deliver superior
performance, scalability, and reliability
Servers
Oracle Magazine: March 2012:
Destination SPARC
Consolidate Without Compromise with
Oracle’s SPARC SuperCluster
SPARC T4 Servers – Optimized for
End-to-End Data Center Computing
Oracle Solaris and Oracle SPARC T4
Servers—Engineered Together for
Enterprise Cloud Deployments
SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 e-Book
SPARC T4 Server e-Book
Server Virtualization for Dummies e-Book
Latest Servers and Solaris Podcasts
25. Solaris
IDC: Oracle Solaris 11, Aimed at
Cloud Deployments, Enhances
Network Virtualization
Solaris 11: Built for Clouds
Oracle Solaris 11: Best for
Enterprise Applications
Oracle Solaris 11 How-To Guides
Oracle Solaris 11 Administrator’s
Cheat Sheet
Find out more about Solaris 11 Training
Oracle Solaris 11 Training Summary
Discover Oracle Solaris 11 Certification
Value Packages
Evaluating Solaris 11
Storage
Staying Ahead of the Data Explosion with
Oracle Optimized Storage e-Book
Storage Magazine: Oracle NAS
Comes Up Big – Twice
Edison Group White Paper: Gaining
Storage Management Efficiency with
Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance
Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Savings
Calculator
ESG: Oracle’s Pillar Axiom 600: A Great Fit
in an Increasingly Broad Oracle Portfolio
Delivering Storage Quality of Service with
Oracle Pillar Axiom 600
Archiving for Dummies, Oracle Special
Edition e-Book
Lowering Storage Costs with the World’s
Fastest Tape Drive
26. Resources
Consolidation
and Virtualization
Oracle Virtualization
Server Consolidation
Oracle Special Edition eBook: Server
Virtualization for Dummies Is your data
center becoming a money pit? Get your
free copy of the Server Virtualization
for Dummies eBook, and discover how
getting virtualization right can help
you slash costs, accelerate application
deployment and gain business agility.
Oracle Optimized Solutions
Make Your Applications Run Faster
and Smarter for Less
Oracle Optimized Solutions
Oracle Systems Online Forum: Oracle
Accelerates Your Business with
Breakthrough Application-to-Disk Solutions
27. Services
Installation Services for Oracle Systems
Services for Solaris 11 Refresh
Services for Systems Modernization
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