Increase Business Value With Database Consolidation

Getting the optimum benefits of a modern platform and minimizing business disruption might be a difficult and daunting task. Generally, organizations have multiple Oracle Database estates, but separate databases limit efficiency and increase costs. Consolidating databases is an IT strategy that helps businesses accomplish their strategic goals.

In this blog, we will discover more about Oracle Database Consolidation and its benefits.

Consolidated Databases: Challenges and Solutions

Here are the common concerns related to Consolidated Databases and how to overcome them.

Challenge 1:
Legacy applications are working properly.
If everything is working properly and there is minimal or no issue, then why transform?

Solution:
Oracle minimizes costs for legacy applications.
It efficiently runs mission-critical applications and provides faster results.

Challenge 2:
Commodity hardware limits consolidation.
The compulsory use of generic x86 servers and storage does not provide high levels of consolidation.

Solution:
Oracle offers increased value and decreased cost.
It provides pooled resources for higher performance and efficient use. Also, it removes the cost of over-consuming and over-provisioning.

Challenge 3:
Data governance requirements.
There are separate databases for improving the performance, availability, risk management, and security SLAs.

Solution:
Oracle provides consistent governance
There are multiple levels of isolation and resource management to fulfill SLAs for all Oracle databases.

Challenge 4:
Cloud Database services are not developed for consolidation
Several services need to provide functionality, performance, scale, or availability for consolidation.

Solution:
Oracle is developed for the cloud.
It enables you to run consolidated databases with the same or higher speed, scale, and availability in OCI than in on-premises data centers.

Challenge 5:
Different timing and decentralized IT budgets.
There are multiple LOBs that need to work together and agree to pool resources and budgets.

Solution:
Oracle offers scalable solutions.
It enables you to start with small when projects permit, and you can add resources when consolidation increases.

Why Choose Oracle’s Database Consolidation Platform?

Here are the key factors that make Oracle the best Database Consolidation platform.

• Reduced Cost: Oracle helps with more databases and greater resource utilization at a low cost.
• Higher Availability: It eliminates full-stack redundancy and provides integrated disaster recovery.
• Simpler Deployments: Oracle enables companies to converge databases, minimize fragmentation, and automate management.
• Increased Performance: It provides superior architecture, higher scaling, and unique software optimization capabilities.
• More Security: It offers full-stack security that includes cloud, OS, and database security.
• Consolidation Platform Choice: Oracle provides different consolidation platforms such as Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata, Exadata Cloud Service, and Exadata Cloud@Customer.

9 Benefits of Oracle Database Consolidation

• It can run mission-critical applications and minimize the costs for legacy apps.
• Oracle Database Consolidation helps to increase performance at a minimal cost, as businesses have to pay only for the CPU cores used.
• It provides various levels of resource management and automated database management.
• With Oracle, you can run consolidated databases in OCI instead of using on-premises data centers.
• Oracle Database Consolidation helps to reduce IT complexities and removes unnecessary resources.
• It helps to combine data centers and cloud resources. Plus, it optimizes the utilization.
• You can scale up and down without increasing the downtime through Oracle Database Consolidation.
• It reduces the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and enhances productivity, resource utilization, and faster time to market.
• It also provides resource optimization techniques such as storage snapshotting to save on CAPEX and OPEX wherever applicable.

Exadata Infrastructure for Database Consolidation

Consolidating Databases on Exadata infrastructure will bring mixed workload performance, zero barriers, performance isolation, and higher availability. Let’s discover the benefits of using Exadata infrastructure for consolidation.

• If there is any blockage on the consolidated system, all the workloads will get delayed. But Exadata removes all the blockage.
• It particularly helps to prioritize I/O through pluggable databases, jobs, users, services, and many more.
• It especially prioritizes critical DB network messages with the help of the entire fabric.
• Exadata particularly unifies CPU prioritization with I/O prioritization to create end-to-end assurance.

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