“We recently migrated an Oracle Database for a major insurance provider from IBM Power 7 to an Exadata X5 engineered system as a Proof of Concept”, said Ashish Mahadwar, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Emerging Business Group, CSC.
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This now that IBM has sold its Intel-based computer server business to Lenovo and is now concentrating on selling only the more expensive, higher-margin computer servers that use its own Power chip. They project is in the phase where the companies are ready to market this technology to enterprise customers. The “Exa Your Power Program” (EYP) is aimed to help customers move their Oracle Database from IBM Power systems to Oracle Engineered Systems using Intel technology. Oracle Exadata is goal built hardware and software that is created to work better with Oracle databases.
Oracle will assess the customer environment, produce a report that demonstrates the effectiveness of the Exapower systems in terms of both speed and cost and deliver a roadmap of how the customer to have already moved thousands of customers Oracle databases to Oracle Engineered systems running on Intel architecture from legacy systems. “The Exa Your Power program will make it easier for customers to realize the benefits of moving to Intel architecture”.
On the other hand, Oracle reportedly has shipped more than 10,000 Engineered Systems since rolling out Oracle Exadata in 2008 and hence sees an opportunity to take a bite out of the IBM Power Systems business with this new program.
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Oracle Engineered Systems (OES) run on high-end Intel Xeon processors co-engineered by Intel and Oracle, while the IBM systems run on its own Power processors. It said that the application ran 10x faster along with ETL processing 12x faster on Exadata. “With DIET, HDS can provide deep analysis of a customer’s actual Oracle environment, then use those results and their decades of hands-on experience to provide clear recommendations which are tailored specifically to them”. In teaming up with Intel, Oracle has placed themselves in direct competition with IBM around their hosting platform. Hurd and Krzanich also said they started another new partnership – this one to target Oracle’s database and software customers to ditch their IBM computer servers and buy Oracle/Intel servers instead. The team completed its mission and now will be convincing customers that the new system is much better with increased performance and cost savings. At Oracle’s flagship tech conference held in San Francisco Sunday evening, the two tech pioneers announced a joint partnership to work on computer server chips in a bid to take on a common foe, global Business Machines corporation (NYSE:IBM).
