Oracle Exadata Database Machine

No one would expect to construct a house without concrete footings to support the whole building. Similarly, IT executives need to establish the right infrastructure as a foundation for innovation and better business outcomes. The role of the CIO has changed in recent times. Not only is there a need to keep pace with evolving technological advancements and complexities but there is also the challenge of aligning IT with overall business goals. Three major questions face CIOs as they attempt to serve these two masters – how can they best optimize costs, return increasing IT value back to the business and keep pace with demand and new agendas?

Learn more about Oracle Exadata through this Accenture capabilities brochure and Accenture Point of View.

Accenture believes the answer to meeting these challenges lies in the agile data center. Greater agility enables organizations to respond quickly to new marketplace opportunities, achieve operational efficiencies, improve employee and workplace performance, and reinvigorate growth. Accenture brings experience, research and an understanding of the marketplace to present a coherent plan that helps organizations better meet their customers’ needs. Clients will benefit from:

• Rapid outcomes supported by Accenture’s global strength and scale.

• Leading practices employed by practitioners who are skilled in business transformation.

• A phased approach that offers structured milestones to evaluate progress and maintain the metrics that will realize results.

For any transformation journey to be successful, the devil is in the details. IT organizations can develop capabilities which move them towards agile IT solutions, such as the agile data center, by combining IT governance processes and enabling technologies to better meet the needs of the business.

Accenture experience has shown that the Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) and Oracle Exadata, combined with the right processes can marry enabling technologies and scalable infrastructure to transform your IT operations.

The Oracle Exadata Database Machine (Oracle Exadata) provides extreme performance for both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP) applications, making it the ideal platform for consolidating onto grids or private clouds. It is a complete package of servers, storage, networking, and software that is scalable and secure.