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In today’s market, businesses are mandating greater consolidation of IT infrastructure to lower data center footprints and operational costs, decreasing the number of environments with large data centers with information silos. Some businesses are moving away from on-premises data center to the public cloud entirely. Those who are still operating on premises are looking for avenues to manage IT infrastructure costs. Lowering cost, however, is not always possible because businesses are growing daily, requiring more IT infrastructure to support the rapid growth of data.
To meet the business need for quicker time to market, IT teams must deploy new infrastructure solutions quickly and support it according to the service level agreement (SLA). This presents a challenge for IT teams in terms of speed of deployment.
Building an infrastructure solution for such a requirement is a time-consuming and complex process, especially for Oracle database solutions, as Oracle solutions demands high performance and robustness. Building this type of solution requires both hardware and software expertise.IT teams must spend time researching for the right hardware vendors, develop a professional relationship with these vendors, procure the equipment for a proof of concept, and perform in-house tests to ensure that all layers of the solution work as expected.
The initial proof of concept phase ensures that the infrastructure is working without any hardware failure. Servers, switches, and disk storage fail from time to time. The key is how the solution recovers during a hardware failure, such as a failed disk, while maintaining performance and still providing data protection during the recovery.
The second phase ensures that performance is sustainable for the infrastructure solution. This requires product knowledge and expertise to tune each layer properly. Even though all vendors provide their product best practices that can be referenced but not all best practices of each component will work when putting all pieces together.
Not only the initial setup is time-consuming and complex, but the infrastructure solution also requires life cycle management. This includes ongoing maintenance by the IT and database administration teams. To do so, a separate identical infrastructure is required for testing with newer firmware or software as they become available.
Dell Validated Designs for Oracle databases address these obstacles and barriers to success. These validated solutions undergo vigorous testing with best practices applied at all layers. This ensures confidence for IT, knowing that the work has been performed by vendor experts.