On-Prem Exadata Modernization,
Cloudification, and Managed Services
Oracle Exadata as enterprise IT infrastructure backbone is an excellent choice — and INFOLOB’s award-winning Exadata Cloud at Customer and Exadata Cloud Services support ensure maximum benefits are extracted. Our competencies also cover Oracle Private Cloud Appliances, ZFS Storage Appliance, ZDLRA, patching and tuning, and performance optimization.
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The Ultimate Oracle Exadata Support – From Design to Dominance
Oracle Engineered Systems is the most advanced, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure designed for today’s data-driven business world. And INFOLOB — 3x winner of Oracle Most Valuable Partner (MVP) award for Exadata — underwrites its performance with the full spectrum of expert services including ROI-driven assessment, implementation, patching and tuning, and 24×7 managed services. Adjoining video was recorded by Oracle with our Exadata practice leader a few years ago.
Our support services also cover Oracle Engineered Systems’ core and peripheral products/services – including Exadata migration, Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, Oracle ZFS, Oracle ZDLRA, Exadata Cloud at Customer, and Exadata Cloud Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
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Oracle Engineered Systems is the most advanced, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure designed for today’s data-driven business world. And INFOLOB — 3x winner of Oracle Most Valuable Partner (MVP) award for Exadata — underwrites its performance with the full spectrum of expert services including ROI-driven assessment, implementation, patching and tuning, and 24×7 managed services. Adjoining video was recorded by Oracle with our Exadata practice leader a few years ago.
Our support services also cover Oracle Engineered Systems’ core and peripheral products/services – including Exadata migration, Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, Oracle ZFS, Oracle ZDLRA, Exadata Cloud at Customer, and Exadata Cloud Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Oracle Hybrid Cloud Options
For existing Exadata user organizations – Oracle offers following four types of hybrid cloud options to fulfil all kinds of public and private cloud requirements. Moreover, the identicality of these four Oracle hybrid cloud alternatives with your existing on-premises environment increases agility and workforce adoption. These are:
Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer (stylishly spelled as Cloud@Customer) is an ideal hybrid cloud solution as all the awesomeness of cloud comes in your data center, behind your firewall. INFOLOB’s Exadata practice is proud to have earned the recognition of being the first Partner in the Oracle Partner Network to successfully implement Exadata Cloud@Customer at a client site. Our Cloud Migration Services, Cloud Managed Services, and Cloud Security Services complement our Oracle Hybrid Cloud service to serve as a one-stop-shop for all business transformation needs of enterprises of all types and sizes.
Key Benefits of Oracle Hybrid Cloud Service – Cloud at Customer
- Leverage of local cloud to abide by data residency and sovereignty compliance
- Single tenancy rather than sharing hardware and service with noisy neighbors
- Isolated control plane and private self-service interfaces for portal and API endpoints. No tethering or dependence on the public cloud control plane or Internet exposure of the self-service interfaces
- Gain private and local cloud as a service at the price of public cloud with all features of IaaS and PaaS services available in the marketplace.
The world’s best, fully managed database equipped with the purpose-built hardware, autonomous capabilities, pay-as-you-go pricing model, and the 2nd generation public cloud – deployed in your data center is the state of business transformation. Get rid of the complexity involved in maintaining databases on-premises with Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud at Customer, and let Oracle manage the infrastructure while orchestrating the provisioning, configuring, scaling, tuning, encrypting, repairing, and backing up of your databases. Choose the optimal combination of industry-leading resources for on-premises deployment without missing out on a single advantage of the Oracle public cloud, at 1/5th of the database management costs.
Key Benefits of Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer
- Autonomous database translates to self-sufficient database systems with automatic provisioning, scaling, updating, patching, troubleshooting, securing, and backup
- Oracle Autonomous Database also stands for multi-model, multi-tenant, and multi-workload database systems for developer and data productivity
- Exadata offers you the full optimization throttle required for Oracle Autonomous Database to attain and sustain its peak performance.
- Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud at Customer means inflow of state-of-the-art OLTP, OLAP, warehousing, and cloud-native capabilities, bundled with guaranteed (SLA) performance, availability, and security – straight to your on-premises data center.
For customers already reaping the benefits of the Oracle Database, Oracle Exadata Cloud Service is the only abode to further maximize the outcomes. The dedicated X8M variant of the Exadata on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, for example, is an isolated, high-performance, secured, high-availability infrastructure affording up to 3,200 vCPUs with up to 2.5 PB uncompressed database size. This is on top of the flexible licensing preferences, elasticity, and scalability of the computes to empower customers conveniently regulate their resource consumption to match both – their workload demands and their budget.
Key Differentiators of Oracle Exadata Cloud Service
- Exadata Cloud Service offers limitless warehousing, featuring 1PB of base configuration on Exadata X8M for quenching peak demands at optimized costs
- Unprecedentedly faster OLTP with up to 4.5 million SQL IOPS – outpacing AWS RDS and similar options. Also features the PMEM integration for added acceleration
- Exadata Cloud Service offers leading-edge application development environment supercharged with integrated support, machine learning, varied data type compatibility, microservices development via the converged database, Oracle In-Memory, etc.
- Business continuity tools, across-the-board consolidation, seamless cloud migration, ‘architected-in’ security, unmatchable price-performance, and more
Autonomous Database is the name of the revolutionary, multi-model, multi-tenant, multi-workload, converged, AI/ML-enabled, and fully managed database service – designed to exceed developer and data productivity while cutting operational costs by a whopping 90%. The Autonomous Database natively runs in the 2nd generation, highly secured Oracle Cloud Infrastructure alongside hundreds of workload-optimized cloud services for unparalleled OLTP and data warehousing. However, most importantly, the Autonomous Database features pioneering self-reliant management capabilities including auto-configuring, auto-provisioning, auto-repairing, auto-patching, auto-tuning, auto-backup, and more. In short, a modern, ‘auto-pilot’ enabled database service by Oracle.
Key Benefits of Oracle Autonomous Database
- Oracle Autonomous Database warehouse variant (a.k.a. Autonomous Data Warehouse [ADW]) delivers leading-edge analytical processing capabilities that are usable against enterprise data warehouse, data lakes, ML, data science, IoT streams, etc.
- Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP), which is the OLTP variant of the Oracle Autonomous Database is an exemplary database service for streamlining both OLTP and just-in-time analytics at scale, coupled with high performance, impenetrable security, and innumerable modern use cases
- Development of JSON-centric applications is now easier than ever with Oracle Autonomous JSON Database, which is the third variant of Autonomous Database. It features document APIs, ACID transactions, high performance, serverless scale, and more. Autonomous JSON Database is usable in a ton of use cases including mobile apps (especially with dynamic user experience), catalog management, integrate IoT, payments, etc.
Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer
As highlighted by Gartner’s Lydia Leong, Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud at Customer (DRCC) is a special tool to copy and paste Oracle Public Cloud advantages into an on-premises Data Center, which means the architecture, services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), operations, SLAs, security, and billing model remain exactly the same as before. With Oracle DRCC, customers can run latency-sensitive applications with data locality in a fully managed cloud regions, consolidate legacy applications on high-performance cloud infrastructure that comes with tools to modernize, and run an entire portfolio of IT workloads in a single-tenant, flexible cloud infrastructure. Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer brings over 50 cloud services that are:
- Hosted within customers’ data center
- Customizable based on workload needs
- Completely dedicated and fully featured
- Oracle managed maintenance and operations
- Software-defined infrastructure
- Billed only for the cloud service consumption
Oracle Exadata – The Exceller of Oracle Database with Shared ‘Bloodline’
Oracle Exadata is a complete package of hardware and software designed for maximum performance and scalability of database operations. It is engineered to provide unmatched performance and scalability for Oracle databases, with unique features such as InfiniBand connectivity, flash storage, and a unique software stack that optimizes database performance. In particular to revolutionize OLTP, Oracle Exadata X8M comes with the cutting-edge technology, something that was limited only to supercomputers until now, called Random Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE).
With Oracle Exadata, your database operations can run up to 10-times faster than traditional systems, enabling you to handle large volumes of data, improve application response times, and reduce operational costs. More so, because both Exadata and Oracle Database are built on the same assembly line.
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Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is a converged infrastructure solution that combines compute, network, and storage resources into a single system that can be easily deployed and managed. It is a complete and integrated solution that offers virtualization, cloud management, and infrastructure management in a single platform. It enables you to build and manage a private cloud that is easy to deploy, secure, and flexible. With Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, you can reduce operational costs, improve performance, and optimize resource utilization.
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Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance
Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance is a high-performance storage system designed for demanding enterprise workloads. It provides a complete storage solution that is scalable, reliable, and easy to manage. It is an ideal solution for organizations that need to manage large volumes of data, protect against data loss, and deliver high-performance storage services to their applications. With Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance, you can achieve better performance, scalability, and reliability for your data storage needs.
- Automated processes reduce administrator workload
- Prioritized database IO minimizes latency
- Fast database backups with optimized cache management
- Increased capacity and throughput with database compression
- Easy data transfer using Oracle Cloud object storage
- Improved application performance with efficient caching
- DRAM-centric architecture supports more VMs
- High-throughput design with highly-parallel processing
- Built-in optimizations for faster backup and restore
- Consistent performance with all-flash storage
- User-friendly interfaces for increased productivity
- Built-in monitoring for streamlined administration
- Efficient replication for better operational efficiency
- Easy integration with APIs
- Automated problem reporting for timely issue resolution
- Elimination of storage IOs with DRAM caching
- Optimal performance with all-flash configurations
- Cost savings with disk-based configurations
- Accelerated workloads with high-performance CPUs
- Elimination of IO bottlenecks with scalable software
- Easy deployment with network-attached storage
- Simple migrations with universal object storage
- High-performance block storage for faster workloads
- Backup complexity reduced with tight integration
- Simplified connectivity with built-in directory services
- Connectivity to Microsoft servers made easy with integrations
- Improved application performance with high-speed networking
Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (ZDLRA)
Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance is a complete data protection and recovery solution that provides continuous data protection for Oracle databases. It is an integrated appliance that combines hardware, software, and networking to ensure zero data loss protection for Oracle databases. It provides real-time backup and recovery, and supports multiple databases and platforms. With Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance, you can protect your business data against data loss and minimize downtime. And INFOLOB is your go-to design, deployment, and management partner to help you overcome the complexities of harnessing leading-edge backup and recovery capabilities.
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Exadata Cloud At Customer
Exadata Cloud at Customer is an on-premises cloud solution that provides the benefits of Exadata Cloud Service in your data center. The key difference between Exadata and ExaCC is that provides a fully managed and secure cloud infrastructure for Oracle databases, with the same features and capabilities as Exadata Cloud Service. It offers complete control over your data, and allows you to run mission-critical workloads in your own data center. With Exadata Cloud@Customer, you can achieve the benefits of a cloud solution while keeping your data on-premises.
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Exadata Cloud Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Exadata Cloud Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a cloud-based solution that provides the benefits of Exadata in a cloud environment. Please note that Oracle Databases perform much better on OCI than AWS or Azure. ExaCS offers a fully managed and scalable solution for Oracle databases, with the same features and capabilities as Exadata on-premises. It provides the flexibility and agility of a cloud solution, with the performance and security of Exadata. With Exadata Cloud Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you can accelerate your cloud journey and achieve unmatched performance and scalability.
Engineered Systems Sizing/Capacity Planning
Sizing and capacity planning are critical aspects of any Oracle Engineered Systems deployment. Proper sizing ensures that you have the necessary resources to support your workload, while capacity planning ensures that you can handle future growth and changing business requirements. Our team of experts can help you with capacity planning and sizing to ensure that your deployment is right-sized and optimized for your business needs.
Exadata, PCA, ZFS, ZDLRA Resale
We offer resale services for Oracle Engineered Systems, which includes the purchase and sale of new and refurbished systems. Our resale services ensure that you can get the hardware and software you need at a competitive price.
- Resale services for a range of Oracle infrastructure solutions, including Exadata, Private Cloud Appliance, ZFS Storage Appliance, Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance, and Exadata Cloud@Customer
- Expert guidance from certified Oracle consultants on the best solution for your organization's needs
- Comprehensive support for the entire lifecycle of the solution, from design and implementation to ongoing maintenance and updates
- Access to the latest Oracle technologies to help you achieve high performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness
- Improved data security and reliability through Oracle's advanced data protection and disaster recovery capabilities
- Simplified IT operations and reduced management overhead with Oracle's automated management and monitoring tools
- Flexible deployment options, including on-premises, cloud-based, or hybrid configurations to meet your organization's specific requirements
- Scalable solutions that can grow and adapt to your organization's changing needs.
- Competitive pricing and financing options to help you get the most out of your investment
Migration & Upgrade Services for Oracle Engineered Systems
Migrating and upgrading Oracle Engineered Systems can be a complex process. Our team of experts can help you with migration and upgrades to ensure that your systems are up-to-date and running smoothly. We can help you with system consolidation, data migration, and software upgrades, to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition.
Oracle Exadata and Engineered Appliances’ Performance Tuning Services
Performance tuning is critical for achieving the best possible performance from your Oracle Engineered Systems. Our team of experts can help you with performance tuning to optimize your systems and improve your application performance. We can help you with database optimization, network tuning, storage tuning, and software tuning, to ensure that your systems are running at peak performance.
Exadata and Engineered Systems Patching Support
Keeping your Oracle Engineered Systems up-to-date with the latest patches and updates is critical for ensuring security, stability, and performance. Our team of experts can help you with patching to ensure that your systems are up-to-date and secure. INFOLOB helps you with patch management, testing, and deployment, to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition.
Engineered Systems Relocation
Relocating Oracle Engineered Systems can be a complex and challenging process. Our team of experts can help you with system relocation to ensure a smooth transition. We can help you with site surveys, cabling, power, and network connections, to ensure that your systems are relocated efficiently and with minimal downtime.