CHAPTER 9Consolidating Databases with the Oracle Exadata Database Machine

Regardless of economic conditions, IT is constantly feeling the pressure to optimize resources that they provide to the business. The senior management of your organization or company expects IT to be able to deploy and run new applications with agility, scale these applications while meeting or exceeding Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and do it all efficiently. The CIO is asked to significantly reduce IT costs but still remain receptive to new business functionality without disrupting users or their current applications.

That’s quite a tall order. One way that many companies reduce costs, improve return on investment, and meet future business needs is to standardize ...

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