Academic News - Current - August 2010

Welcome to Academic News which has been designed to keep you updated and in touch with the latest news and announcements from Q Associates.

LATEST HEADLINES

Optimised Storage for Oracle Environments

Getting the MAX from your Virtualised Environment

Effective Software Licence Asset Management

Q Enterprise Managed Backup Services

Optimised storage is critical to the delivery of maximum database and Oracle application performance. NetApp storage is optimised for use in Oracle Database and Application environments delivering significant benefits to Oracle users that include the following:

• Reduce costs and increase utilisation of your existing storage
  
  
• Slash backup times from hours to minutes
  
  
• Instantly create space-efficient clones of your database for development, testing, training and more

NetApp and Oracle believe that technological synergy is critical for reducing the complexity of integrated enterprise solutions. To enable the greatest possible interoperability, they have collaborated closely on key product integration efforts, including performance testing, product validation, and joint developments. Why did Oracle choose NetApp? The answer is simple – greater efficiency, greater flexibility and easier management.

Learn more . . .

Getting the MAX from your Virtualised Environment

Deploy more virtual machines per server with Vmware vSphere 4.1 and IBM's distinctively scalable eX5 platforms and consolidate operations to eliminate redundancy and increase overall systems control.

The IBM x3850 X5 is one of the only x86 servers today that can exploit all the scalability features available with VMware vSphere. By combining VMware with the energy efficient IBM System X and BladeCenter you can control and reduce power consumption whilst comfortably virtualising your database and business applications without impacting performance.

Effective Software Licence Asset Management

Non-compliance around software licencing can lead to huge exposure and unexpected costs. As software companies increase their licence audit activities across all sectors, it is now vital to ensure that software-related financial risks are minimised.

Q Associates Intelligent Asset Management provides a comprehensive range of Software Asset Management (SAM) services, reducing software costs, releasing capital budgets and ensuring full licensing compliance.

Get Compliant, Stay Compliant.

Learn more . . .

Q Enterprise Managed Backup Services

As data management becomes more of a challenge, ever increasing levels of services are required. Whether you are managing pools of data across a number of remote sites, large quantities of data centrally or require a global solution, Q Expert Services (QES) deliver the data management solutions that allow businesses to move forward, safe in the knowledge that their data is protected, managed and can be recovered efficiently 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

• Are you meeting your backup and recovery windows?
  
  
• Are you strugling with time consuming, highly manual tape and media management?
  
  
• Are you looking to reduce cost and streamline your backup environment?
  

To understand how Q Expert Services (QES) can help manage your backup environment please contact us now.