The Benefits of an Optimized Database Infrastructure

Automating database, storage, and network components was just the beginning. Oracle’s database infrastructure solutions take things further, offering several benefits:

  1. Enhanced database performance: Exadata’s Smart Scanand storage indexes offload query processing to storage, helping improve performance and reducing the number of cores and database licenses needed. Exadata’s Smart Flash also blends flash and disk to provide high performance and capacity, along with lower costs. By intelligently managing what data goes in memory, in flash, or on disk, it can help you make the most of different storage volumes. Meanwhile, Oracle’s Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance can automatically back up and archive data, ensuring maximum protection with minimum impact to database performance or overheads.
  2. Helps you deliver applications 42 percent faster: When a new business application is deployed, unanticipated application usage patterns can create performance issues. Exadata’s huge I/O, network, and compute throughput can absorb spikes without slowing response times for mission-critical workloads, so your DBAs don’t have to worry about indexes or other physical aspects with new apps.
  3. Improved security: Database sprawl makes it hard to establish and enforce enterprise security policies. Exadata delivers a well-integrated set of security capabilities that help organizations address their most pressing security requirements and concerns. By consolidating your databases onto Exadata, you reduce your attackable surface area, enable strong, universal encryption throughout your database infrastructure, and simplify patching across the entire stack. Building on the superior security capabilities of Oracle Database, the Exadata storage provides the ability to query fully encrypted databases with near-zero overhead at hundreds of gigabytes per second.
  1. Zero data loss: Generic catch-all recovery solutions can often corrupt and lose critical database data during backup and recovery. Recovery Appliance is designed to avoid this risk with real-time redo transport, autonomous tape archival, and automated end-to-end backup verification.
  2. Faster recovery: If a disaster ever strikes, you need to be confident that you can recover data rapidly. Recovery Appliance offers backup windows that are three times shorter, and can recover databases up to six times faster than conventional recovery solutions.
  3. Enterprisewide data protection and compliance: Policy-based processes can help ensure you protect all databases across the entire business. Recovery Appliance also simplifies compliance with known recovery status features, helping you monitor all protected databases, know exactly what data is stored within them, and understand how it is currently secured.
  4. Delivered in flexible consumption models: Oracle Exadata offers three deployment models. All models offer the same user experience, standards, products, and unified management:
    1. Deployed on premises with DBaaS ability, as a shared service or private-cloud model
    2. Delivered via a public cloud as Oracle Exadata Cloud Service
    3. Installed as Exadata Cloud at Customer—offering the benefits of the Oracle cloud on premises in your data center, but with Oracle owning and maintaining the infrastructure on your behalf, behind your firewall

The importance of a future-proof platform.

If you continue to deploy general-purpose hardware to support your Oracle Database workloads, you will eventually create a siloed, unsustainable platform that can limit your growth.

Enterprises are demanding converged or hyperconverged infrastructures to help keep their IT platforms scalable, lean, and ready to support their business now and into the future for generic workloads.

Oracle has proven that converging and preintegrating database technology into the solution stack makes it easier to enable true database automation.

If you’re keeping your database infrastructure on premises for the time being, you’re probably assessing options across a range of traditional hardware vendors. But if you hope to deploy a future-proof platform, you should also consider what cloud options each vendor can provide.

You could also go direct to a cloud provider, but how many are really able to offer a complete solution that will operate both in the cloud and on premises?

Oracle offers future-proof solutions that can help you solve your challenges in the cloud or in your data center. Purpose-built for Oracle Database, Exadata can deliver extreme performance for your most compute-intensive workloads, scaling with you as your business and data volumes grow. And with exact cloud equivalents, Oracle Cloud or Oracle Cloud at Customer, you can seamlessly migrate workloads from on premises to the cloud when you’re ready.

Are you ready for the future of data?

To ensure your organization is ready for the future of data, you should ask yourself:

How rapidly is our business information growing?
How will information be used differently in the future?
Is our inability to effectively manage and secure information holding us back?
Are the costs of managing data increasing over time?

If you’re worried about what the future holds, it’s time to future-proof your IT infrastructure. Here’s what to look for when considering a database platform vendor:

  1. A holistic IT infrastructure solution that simplifies management, patching, and support
  2. The scalability to accommodate growing data without additional hardware or costs
  3. Continuous data protection and validation that ensure consistent data integrity, and recovery to any point in time
  4. End-to-end security that helps you secure your data at all stages, from chip to cloud
  5. A powerful analytics platform to uncover business insights faster
  6. Support for new and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), chatbots, blockchain, and Docker
  7. Multiple deployment choices: in the cloud, on premises, hybrid, or public cloud behind your firewall
  8. An enterprise cloud strategy and viable journey to the cloud

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