Oracle's Virtual Compute Appliance: Benefit from a Simple Converged Infrastructure

With closely integrated software and hardware components, Oracle's engineered systems are designed to reduce both IT cost and complexity—two key concerns for growing companies. In particular, Oracle's Virtual Compute Appliance hits the price/performance sweet spot for midsize companies. By radically simplifying how customers install, deploy, and manage converged infrastructures for any Linux, Oracle Solaris, or Microsoft Windows application, the next-generation Virtual Compute Appliance X5 delivers unique value in performance, features, cost savings, and ease of use. 

Virtual Compute Appliance has the power to put midsize companies in a more agile, responsive position by delivering storage, networking, virtualization, operating system, and application capabilities all on one system. And with one vendor to turn to for assistance and support, it also dramatically reduces complexity.

But don't simply take our word for it. Watch a short video featuring the Chief Technology Officer of Secure-24 as he explains the benefits of Virtual Compute Appliance in a midsize company.

Four Key Reasons It's Right for Midsize Companies
When organizations have to integrate compute, network, and storage infrastructure from several vendors, lengthy provisioning and configuration requirements make it difficult to successfully address today's quickly emerging business opportunities. Virtual Compute Appliance X5 helps companies reduce infrastructure complexity by as much as 70 percent, deploy applications 7x faster, and cut capital expenditures by as much as 50 percent.

• Fast deployment. The technology requires minimal implementation time to launch Oracle and third-party applications or services.

• Management ease. Enterprises can consolidate Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux and other Linux distributions, as well as Microsoft Windows applications, onto one platform with Virtual Compute Appliance. Organizations can then centrally manage all the hardware and software components using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c.

• Performance at half the cost. Compared to Cisco UCS plus EMC, Virtual Compute Appliance is 50 percent cheaper and easier to deploy.

• Preconfigured for high availability. All hardware components come in pairs for system redundancy, and Oracle VM supports live migration of workloads to keep operations running in case of a component failure.

"No other vendor delivers this kind of value—they only deliver piece parts and basic virtual machines that require mounds and mounds of integration," says Oracle President Mark Hurd.

Get the latest update on Virtual Compute Appliance—watch a replay of the Virtual Compute Appliance X5 launch webcast. For demos, e-books, white papers, data sheets, and more, visit the Virtual Compute Appliance resources page on oracle.com.