Oracle Exadata Database Machine

“Pythian has proven their Oracle expertise to us, so it was a natural decision to go with them once we chose Oracle Exadata Version 2. Our partnership with Pythian has delivered fantastic ROI.”
Jonathan Levine, Chief Operating Officer, LinkShare Corporation

Oracle's Exadata Storage Server and Oracle Exadata Database Machine offer world-class performance combined with improved manageability from integrated storage hardware. It's easy to implement, and has seamless integration with other Oracle products.

Pythian can help plan, deploy and manage Oracle Exadata. We'll evaluate the benefits for your particular environment, and enable you to take maximum advantage of its full features and capabilities such as smart scans, Smart Flash Cache, and Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC) using our best practices and methodologies for migrating to and implementing Oracle Exadata Storage Server.

Take advantage of Pythian's experience to avoid common pitfalls and ensure a smooth implementation and ongoing experience with Oracle Exadata.  Contact us to validate your decision to migrate to Oracle Exadata and get started or send an email to exadata@pythian.com.

Benefits of Pythian on Your Oracle Exadata Team

  • Expert validation: save time and money by validating your migration strategy in advance to accelerate Oracle Exadata platform readiness.
  • Mitigated risk: minimize your implementation risk, and ensure Oracle Exadata implementation success.
  • Continuous improvement: leverage Pythian's expertise in Oracle Exadata to provide ongoing operational support and optimization of your environment. The Oracle Exadata platform requires one team to provide a holistic view and bring the knowledge of storage, systems, networking and databases to the project. Pythian provides this view with our Oracle Exadata support program.
  • More reasons to work with Pythian

“It’s not surprising that we continue to see rapid adoption of Oracle Exadata, given the need for companies to increasingly do more with less,” said Stephen Boyle, Group Vice President, Worldwide Strategic Alliances, Oracle. “Implementation partners with proven expertise in Oracle Exadata deployment, such as Pythian, will be in high demand going forward to ensure the successful adoption of Oracle Exadata as well as its ongoing operational support.”

Pythian Services for Oracle Exadata

  • Proof of Concept:
    • Assess suitability of the platform for particular applications and workload
    • Simulate real application traffic on the Oracle Exadata platform
    • Identify application design gaps preventing customers from taking full advantage of all Oracle Exadata features
    • Validate the ROI of Oracle Exadata adoption
  • Planning:
    • Oracle Exadata assessment, data and application architecture and roadmap development
    • Vendor selection
    • Expert validation to minimize risk, accelerate readiness, ensure implementation success
    • Benchmarking
    • Overall project management
    • System administration expertise/services
    • Disaster recovery planning
  • Deployment:
    • Performance testing
    • Security audit and related services
    • Oracle Exadata configuration
    • Migration to Oracle Exadata from any database platform
  • Management:
    • Ongoing operational and support services
    • Monitoring
    • Full reporting
  • More Pythian database services

Pythian's Consulting Team Has the Answers to:

  • Can I run Oracle Exadata concurrently with my existing database?
  • How can I migrate without downtime?
  • How do I set up parallel execution?
  • How can I partition my data to optimize performance?
  • Can hybrid columnar compression really reduce disk usage by 15x?
  • How will it impact system performance?
  • How can I obtain the maximum performance benefits?
  • How can I load data without impacting availability and performance?
  • What type of maintenance jobs do I need to ensure optimal performance over time?
  • How can I structure my system for maximum availability?
  • How can I effectively use the hardware and software support resources available to me?

Get started to have your Oracle Exadata questions answered by our expert team or send an email to exadata@pythian.com.

Learn More

Free Implementing Oracle Exadata Webinar:  Hear Marc Fielding, a senior member of Pythian’s Consulting Group on the recorded webinar Implementing Oracle Exadata – Strategies for Success. Watch Now.

Oracle Exadata Session at OpenWorld 2010:  Don't miss Pythian live at Oracle OpenWorld, Monday, September 20, 2010 at 12:30pm in Moscone South 308 for Implementing Oracle Exadata: A Case Study. Co-presented by Michael Aldrich of LinkShare Corporation and Pythian senior consultant, Marc Fielding.

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