The Key steps to Optimizing your Oracle Assets
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OFFICE THEME The Key steps to Optimizing your Oracle Assets Recycle – Reuse - Relicense Donnie Hamlett Technology Specialist [email protected] Jim Brull Managing Partner [email protected]
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The Key steps to Optimizing your Oracle Assets. Recycle – Reuse - Relicense. Donnie Hamlett Technology Specialist [email protected] . Jim Brull Managing Partner [email protected] . iQuate. Large Enterprise Organizations Complex networks. Founded in 2002 Dublin - Ireland - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The Key steps to Optimizing your Oracle AssetsRecycle – Reuse - Relicense
Donnie HamlettTechnology [email protected]
Jim BrullManaging [email protected]
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FOCUS
Deployment Intelligence
iQuate
MARKETS
Large Enterprise Organizations
Complex networks
BACKGROUND
Founded in 2002
Dublin - IrelandSan Francisco - USA
Sydney - AustraliaParis - France
TECHNOLOGY
Purpose built Agentless
Discovery, Inventory and
Measurement PlatformBI Visualization
iQExplore
iQSonar
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CentroidCentroid has been a leader in Managed Services, Consulting and Technology since 1997
Centroid is one of Oracle's Top 25 Strategic Partners. We are a national technology firm focused on Managed Services, Consulting, Cloud Services and Resell that span the entire enterprise.
FOCUSM
ARKETS
EnterpriseMid MarketEmerging
BACKGROUND
Founded in 1997150+ Professionals
NE, MW, RockiesTOLA, West Coast
TECHNOLOGY
ConsultingManaged ServicesLicensing / Resell
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Agenda• The Challenge• Optimizing your Oracle Position• An accurate picture of your Oracle Estate• A Oracle Optimization Case Study• Summary• Questions and Answers• Next Steps
• Consulting Services • Managed Services • Cloud Services • Resell
The Challenge
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Challenge• Oracle is good for your business but licensing it is
complex• The dynamic nature of IT adds to this complexity• New hardware (Cores) / virtualization• Business units need new applications• What Oracle products are you entitled to use ?• Who keeps track of licensing ?• How do you track it all ?• You have to do more with less
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Walking the tight rope• Over licensing - limits the ability to fund new IT initiatives• Under licensing - is a compliance risk• Achieve balance, while looking at future growth• What if you could make this easy?
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Optimizing your Oracle Position
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Key steps to optimizing your Oracle Position?• Step 1: Need an accurate picture of your Oracle Estate
• Step 2: Review your Oracle Contracts
• Step 3: Optimize how Oracle has been deployed in your Estate
• Step 4: Repurpose existing licenses, or purchase new licenses
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An accurate picture of your Oracle estate
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How do you arrive at an accurate picture of your Oracle estate ?• Manual (Scripts) vs Automated (Tool) ? • Selecting the right tool (Verified by Oracle) ?
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Options, Packs, Installed Apps, etc.
Oracle Database, , etc.
Active/Active, Active/Passive, etc.
Physical : Virtual relationships, CPU Affinity, etc.
CPU, Memory, Disk, OS, etc.
Costof Oracle
Software Configuration
Installed Software
Clustering Configuration
Virtual Hardware
Physical Hardware
Step 1: Getting an Accurate Picture of your Oracle Estate
Cost of Oracle
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?Discovery IP SCAN
iQSonar Agentless Scanning
NETWORK
Hardware
Virtualization
Operating System
Enterprise Applications
Clustering
UNIX
Linux
Windows
Hyper-V
VMware
Oracle
SQL
DB2
SecureINVENTORY
Databases in useOptions in useManagement PacksCPU CorrectionOracle MiddlewareVM to Host\Cluster
Measurement
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Your Discovery & Inventory Solution must accuratelydeliver ALL this information to support a correctlicense position.. and analyse the contractAccurately.
Oracle Verification only covers
this information
Oracle verification & Oracle License
The information required to properly identify your Oracle License position
DiscoveryWhere is all the software?
DatabaseEdition, Version, Options, Packs (installed/in use)
Core CountsLicense model based on cores, includes Named User Plus (NUP)
Virtual Host \ Virtual Cluster Total number of cores in clusters to be counted
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iQExplore – Actionable Intelligence
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436 Cores ?
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An Oracle optimization case study
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• Consulting Services • Managed Services • Cloud Services • Resell
Case Study – Large Financial Services Company
CompanyGlobal Financial Services company with 1500 + employees and Revenues over $1B
Challenges• Future IT projects required additional procurement of software licenses: $3.5M• Infrastructure consisted of mainly EOL systems• Business wanted better SLA’s & Finance wanted Applications upgraded• Procurement managed licenses: Applications, Technology and Infrastructure
Solution• IT Asset Assessment performed: Discovery, inventory and measurement of all assets
discovered• Hardware Consolidation• Enterprise view all projects and existing IT assets
Customer Benefits• Saved over $3.5m in additional software licenses• Reduced Data Center Footprint: 39 Servers down to 9• Had 100% visibility in their entitlements• Business received better SLA / performance on their systems: 5x in Performance Gains
100% Visibility into what is deployed, used and entitled to
Saved $3.5m in additional license spend
Increased system response time by 5x
Reduced Data Center Footprint
Re-utilized Infrastructure Resources to other projects
Validated their level of compliance
Gained efficiencies in operations with use of newer technology
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Summary• Most companies are not realizing the value of their Oracle
Investment• Controlling your Oracle spend is complex but it doesn’t have to be• iQSonar provides a detailed and accurate view of your Oracle
Estate• Centroid has a proven process to help optimize Oracle deployment
and right size your Oracle spend.
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Questions & Answers
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Next Steps Call and engage Centroid to Schedule an IT Asset
Assessment Contact: Rebecca Portela c: 214-538-9301 e: [email protected]
Enjoy the benefits of an IT Asset Assessment
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