Businesses are under tremendous pressure to improve efficiency of their existing infrastructures, meet future growth and reduce overhead. They must cut power and operational costs while reducing server and database sprawl. Add in the need to increase compute power, memory and I/O capacity to meet operational demands and the pressure becomes game changing.

In order to get datacenter management, operational and, therefore, economic efficiency, consolidating databases on a scale-up x86 server is becoming an attractive option for customers. For example, HP ProLiant DL785 G6 servers can scale up to support very large workloads as well as consolidation of multiple database instances onto a single server still leaving headroom for future growth.

Customers looking to migrate their oracle database applications from large legacy servers with very high operational cost, find Oracle database deployments on HP ProLiant multi-processor servers running Linux or Solaris very attractive. These multi-processor ProLiant servers provide a great scale-up deployment platform for both Business Intelligence and Online Transaction processing applications deployed on the databases.  

Businesses strive to fully automate manufacturing, inventory, supply chain management, and customer billing running simple to complex business applications on the top of a database, such as Oracle 11g. The SPECjAppServer 2004 benchmark emulates information flow among an automotive dealership, manufacturing, supply chain management, and an order/inventory system and can be a very good indicator of server performance for these workloads.

As you can see in the Oracle press release at Oracle Open World 2009 earlier today, HP ProLiant DL785 G6 running Oracle® Fusion Middleware and Oracle database 11g delivers World Record Single-Node result with SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark. This demonstrates that that HP ProLiant DL785 G6 is a superb platform for deploying JAVA/J2EE based business application running on Oracle database.

Oracle Open World 2009, the world's largest information technology event dedicated to helping enterprises understand how to harness the power of information, already started in Moscone Center, San Francisco, this morning.

Please feel free to stop by and check out the award-winning HP ProLiant DL785 G6 and many other HP solutions at #HP booth #1301.  I will be at the HP ProLiant DL785 G6 booth on all three days of the Oracle Open World 2009 and looking forward to learning, answering questions and meeting with a lot of customers and partners.