Private Database Clouds enable customers to consolidate servers, storage, and database workloads onto a shared hardware and software infrastructure.  This shared infrastructure can be deployed in a virtualized or bare-metal configurations.

The key benefits of  Private Database Cloud include:

• Increasing Quality of Service: IT organizations are not only trying to drive down costs, they are also looking at solutions that will simultaneously improve quality of service in terms of performance, availability and security. Cloud consumers inherently benefit from the high availability characteristics built into the Private Cloud. Organizations can also enforce a unified identity and security infrastructure as part of standardized provisioning. Thus, instead of bolting on security policies, these policies and compliance regulations are part of the provisioning process.
• Enabling Faster Deployment: Building the Private Cloud infrastructure using standard building block components (servers, CPUs, storage, network, etc.), configurations, and tools, enables a streamlined, automated, and simplified deployment process.
• Providing Resource Elasticity: The ability to grow and shrink the capacity of a given database, both in terms of storage size and compute power, allows applications the flexibility to meet the dynamic nature of business workloads.
• Rapid Provisioning: Databases in a cloud can be rapidly provisioned, either using IT based or via a self-service provisioning model, providing agility in application deployment. This reduces overall time in deploying production applications, development platforms or creating test bed configurations.

Viscosity and the Private Database Cloud

We specialize in private database cloud.  Whether you choose to leverage a hypervisor, implement RAC or leverage Exadata as your consolidation platform, we can take you where you want to go.  We also will help you with your Oracle licensing by telling you where you can over-commit and where you need to be conservative.

We have VMware Certified Professionals, Oracle VM Certified Specialists in the x86 platform, and strong skills in Oracle Sun virtualization.  Since we are virtualization agnostic, we can help customers decide which virtualization technology makes the most business sense. With Viscosity’s  expertise and deep knowledge in virtualization technologies, we can help customers migrate their silo’ed infrastructure to the virtualized database infrastructure.  Our most heavily leveraged skillset has been in the area of migrating customers off of AIX and Solaris platforms to Linux (to VMware or OVM).

Additionally, we have developed best practices for implementing database consolidation using RAC and ASM, as well as in Exadata Configurations.  We have RAC expertise in AIX, HP, Sun and Linux platforms (Red Hat, Oracle Linux and SuSe) and on NFS, OCFS2, and ASM storage platforms. Our panel of RAC experts have implementation experience in 10g / 11g / 11g Release 2 RAC.