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Today, businesses are putting IT organizations under tremendous pressure to deliver the highest quality of service, in terms of maximum availability and scalability, at the lowest possible cost, and at the highest level of efficiency and flexibility. In short, IT is being asked to do much, much more with much, much less.
Enterprise Grids make these seemly impossible challenges achievable. Enterprise Grids, made up of large configurations of very low cost, commodity clusters, dramatically reduce the cost of computer hardware. Oracle RAC technology enables this low-cost hardware platform to deliver the highest quality of service that rivals and exceeds the levels of availability and scalability achieved by the most expensive, mainframe SMP computers. By dramatically reducing administration costs and providing new levels of administration flexibility, Oracle is enabling the enterprise Grid environment.
The Enterprise Grid will have a profound impact, enabling business to be more adaptive, proactive and agile. With enterprise Grids, data centers will have the ability to meet the changing demands of business at each moment in time – just in time. Application workloads will be managed as services that must meet defined levels of quality. Processing resources and storage will be allocated to services in a fluid fashion to ensure that those quality levels are maintained. Each processing node or storage component in the Grid can change its individual personality almost instantaneously without any downtime for any application.
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