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The University of Phoenix and Expedient: Making the Transformation from a Legacy Datacenter to Software-Defined Excellence

CIO Business Intelligence

The result of years of consolidation, the sprawling facility was the home of more than 40 networks, different virtualization platforms and hypervisor levels, nearly 10,000 virtual machines, 585 servers, and a massive collection of legacy software. The team also had to address the very old versions of Linux and Oracle still in use.

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General Dynamics IT takes multicloud strategy to the next level

CIO Business Intelligence

And the results are truly multicloud, as Hannah has opted to work with all the top cloud vendors to fill the company’s various back-office needs — AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud — as well as Workday for HR and other SaaS vendors for specific needs. We were able to get better metrics and reporting.

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VMworld 2013 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

From there, she launches into a discussion of the “customer virtualization journey”; it’s the same 3-step journey of IT production, business production, and IT-as-a-Service that we’ve heard about for several years. He pays particular attention to mission-critical apps on VMware, calling out Oracle, SAP, and others.

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You can easily virtualize your physical storage

Dataconomy

Server virtualization can do the trick for you if you also struggle to scale your applications to meet growing demands without breaking the bank. Server virtualization is a game-changing technology that has revolutionized the way organizations deploy and manage their IT infrastructure.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). Many organizations have purpose-built solutions for asking business intelligence questions, providing disaster recovery/backup, etc., Instead, businesses make difficult tradeoffs as to what will and will not be recoverable should disaster strike.

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Oracle’s new EU Sovereign Cloud regions to help enterprises meet data regulations

CIO Business Intelligence

Oracle on Tuesday said it is opening its EU Sovereign Cloud for enterprises and government bodies to help them meet evolving data residency and privacy regulations — such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — while moving to the cloud. The two data centers have been put in place to manage disaster recovery, the company said.

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Cost still biggest driver for multicloud, study finds

CIO Business Intelligence

The study, commissioned by Oracle, looked at the activities of 1,500 enterprises around the world using IaaS or PaaS offerings, or planning to do so within the next six months. His choice of clouds — Oracle’s OCI and Microsoft’s Azure — was constrained by Reale’s reliance on Oracle’s Exadata platform.

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