New Service Helps Customers Regain Control of Their Oracle Assets

Keeping on top of enterprise application assets can be a headache for IT departments, often requiring dedicated teams to manage licences and ensure compliance.

As many customers will be only too aware, Oracle environments are no exception and working out just what licences are needed can be a horribly complicated task. Now a new service from Sungard Availability Services promises to simplify asset management and put customers back in control of their Oracle estates.

Application Cloud Services for Oracle, a proven solution that has been available in the US for several years, delivers customers’ vital Oracle infrastructure, tailored to their specific requirements, via the cloud. After gaining an understanding of customers’ business requirements, our experienced consultants design and build optimised, consumption-based Oracle environments. This enables customers to right size their Oracle estate and mitigate the potentially costly risk of non-compliance, while at the same time ensuring they pay only for the licences they need.

In the past, one of the major hurdles was identifying exactly how much compute power each customer used on shared servers. We are able to overcome that through the use of hardware partitioning in our virtual platforms. This allows us to identify consumption by individual customer so each pays only for what they use.

Our robust infrastructure is based on a certified Oracle Red Stack configuration specifically designed for Oracle applications and databases. As the stack design is Oracle from top to bottom, this eliminates any disputes concerning compatibility or ownership of technical issues.

And, of course, it has all the resilience built-in that you would expect from any Sungard Availability Services ensuring reliability and high availability at all times.

If your organisation depends on Oracle applications and you’d like to find out more, talk to your Account Manager, email avail@sungardas.com or call 1800 938 122.