For most businesses, virtualisation began as a way to optimise on-prem server hardware, maximising resource capital spending and overcoming the physical limitations of the data centre. The limitless nature of cloud platforms has changed the game, allowing applications and services to draw on all the resources they need. However, infinite scalability has created a new […]
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In the age of virtual computing, hardware has become increasingly commoditised. Abstracting operations from the underlying hardware has helped businesses to reduce their hardware spend significantly. Given that Oracle hardware is often perceived as as more expensive, why should your business consider increasing spend? Here are five reasons to look beyond the headline purchase price:
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Oracle customers, over 430,000 of them globally according to 2018 figures, are traditionally loyal to the Oracle brand, but when it comes to choosing infrastructure and particularly new server technology, why should customers choose Oracle SPARC over its rival IBM Power? What makes Oracle SPARC the better solution? Firstly, and importantly the focus and commitment
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You’ve decided that you need a virtualised, next-generation data centre, so whether you’re starting afresh or you’re updating what you already have in place, what are the key preparatory steps you need to take? First you need to prepare your physical servers. These will become the hosts for your hypervisor in a virtualised environment, so
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Next-generation virtualisation goes way beyond server virtualisation and provides the platform for virtualised storage, virtualised networking and cloud orchestration tools that are essential elements of a software-defined data centre. Cloud-native architectures, containerised data and hyperconvergence are some of the technology approaches that a next generation, software-defined data centre can enable and the benefits of these
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