Oracle grid computing customers achieve 150% ROI savings

Oracle announced that seven customers who have adopted enterprise grid

computing infrastructures are on track to achieve an average of 150 percent

return on investment (ROI) over five years, according to a third-party study.

Chicago Stock Exchange, Ohio Savings Bank, Oslo University, and Vanderbilt

University, among others, participated in the report titled "Making

Enterprise Grid Computing a Reality with Oracle 10g Software."

Researched and produced by Mainstay Partners, the study determined that

customers can benefit significantly by upgrading from traditional, single-server

systems to high-performance, lower-cost clustered servers and operating systems

running Oracle 10g infrastructure software including Oracle Application Server

10g, Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g and Oracle Real

Application Clusters 10g. With an enterprise grid infrastructure, organizations

are increasing the flexibility, performance and scalability of their Information

Technology (IT) systems while lowering operating costs.

"It's clear from the research findings that these customers are

realizing considerable benefits from migrating to an enterprise grid computing

infrastructure using Oracle 10g software," said Robert Shimp, VP of

Technology Marketing, Oracle Corporation. "Customers are achieving higher

levels of efficiency, manageability and performance from their IT systems than

was previously possible."

According to Mainstay Partners' findings, Oracle 10g customers are

achieving substantial savings — on average 150 percent ROI and 43 percent

internal rate of return are predicted over five years. Oracle 10g helps

customers to reduce hardware costs through consolidation as well as reduce

software license and maintenance costs.

Study participants achieved a 123% average savings on hardware in the first

year with projected hardware savings of 278% over five years. Additionally, the

customers have considerably improved their availability by moving from a single-

or dual-node environment to a multi-node environment, dramatically increasing

availability. Each of the study participants has improved business continuity

with disaster recovery times reduced from three or four hours to minutes.

Overall, software savings among the study participants averages 24%.

Customers are gaining greater accountability by eliminating the number of

vendors and associated integration issues. The result of the integrated offering

from Oracle is an increase in performance, availability and service level

agreements. According to the study, the customers are experiencing an average of

10% computing performance improvement.

"The ROI studies show that the Oracle 10g infrastructure software makes

a compelling case for companies to begin the evolution to a grid computing

model," said Timothy Guyre, Managing Director, Mainstay Partners.

"Study participants are now better able to leverage hardware and software

investments, while increasing their labor productivity to achieve overall lower

costs, increased flexibility and improved quality of service."

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