Core Competencies

IIS is a leading provider of Oracle business software solutions delivered on high-availability HP hardware platforms. Nearly 30 years ago, Oracle introduced the first commercial Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), and soon after that, Oracle entered an enduring partnership with HP, a partnership that has consistently produced best-in-class hardware-software combinations for the world’s largest businesses.

While Oracle dominates the enterprise database market – with nearly every Fortune 100 company using Oracle products – HP delivers the critical storage and server infrastructures to support those database products. This combination has grown over 25 years of strategic partnering. In fact, HP and Oracle deliver best-in-class business solutions to more than 100,000 joint customers worldwide.

IIS has a similarly enduring relationship with both HP and Oracle. As an exclusive HP Platinum-level partner, IIS has the expertise to tailor these solutions to your organization’s specific business needs. IIS has been an exclusive HP storage solution provider for more than 17 years, while we’ve been developing highly available, optimized Oracle infrastructures for more than a decade.

Design and Planning Services

As one of HP's fastest-growing enterprise-class technology providers in the country, IIS has the knowledge to identify the optimal software configurations and hardware architectures that match your specific business needs.

At the same time, IIS helps you leverage your existing IT investments. Before deployment, we provide your organization with detailed migration plans, IT consolidation services and implementation strategies that help you avoid downtime and ensure business continuity.

Using proven HP and Oracle reference architectures, IIS will help you:

• Eliminate multiple, stand-alone data silos
• Reduce database administration overhead costs
• Provide continuous backup and quick recovery
• Create a disaster-tolerant environment for data
• Remove I/O and manageability limitations

Baseline Performance Assessment

Before committing to new infrastructure investments, it's important to understand exactly what capacity your organization requires today, while also planning and designing for future capacity needs.

IIS's capacity planning tools enable us to assess the capacity utilization of an organization’s IT infrastructure, point you to solutions that meet your capacity and performance needs, while also identifying opportunities for hardware consolidation. We provide a detailed report that includes hardware inventory, performance characteristics and total cost of ownership over a three-year period.

Customized Oracle Databases

Joint HP-Oracle database solutions have long been the gold standard for database performance. However, the range of software and hardware combinations can confuse even the most skilled IT staff.

Oracle 10g RAC on HP VSE Integrity servers, Oracle RDBMS 10gR2 on HP Integrity servers, Oracle 11g – with so many solutions, how do you know what is best for your organization?

IIS audits your IT infrastructure and assesses your database performance and capacity requirements to deliver database solutions that match your needs. We plan not only for today's capacity requirements, but we look at historical trends and industry benchmarks to provide you with solutions that will scale as your e-business needs grow.

Oracle and HP have worked together to bring new technologies, such as virtualization and grid computing, to their database solutions. IIS has the expertise to tailor these cutting-edge technologies to your business.

For instance, for organizations looking to improve capacity and increase hardware flexibility, IIS can deliver a solution that combines HP's virtualization technology with Oracle 10g Real Application Clusters (RAC). With this solution, customers increase server utilization, decrease power and HVAC costs and simplify management and administrative requirements.

Oracle-HP database solutions will run on many operating systems, and IIS will work with you to match the solution to your OS of choice, including HP-UX, Windows, Linux, Tru 64 Alpha, and Open VMS.

Customized Infrastructure for Business-Critical Oracle Applications

HP and Oracle offer a broad range of business applications on open, standards-based architectures. IIS will help you select, design and integrate HP hardware solutions delivered with any of Oracle's application suites, including Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Siebel and Oracle Retail (formerly Retek).

Many of the world's largest enterprises rely on HP StorageWorks and Oracle Grid Computing for their business-critical data storage needs. Delivered by IIS, these systems provide you with the performance, security, availability and scalability you need for demanding, rapidly changing e-business environments.

IIS focuses on HP StorageWorks XP and EVA disk arrays, as well as the large HP servers, including HP Integrity Superdomes. HP leads the market with storage designed specifically for Oracle. HP's Application Centric Storage is optimized for Oracle infrastructure, providing your organization with reduced management, increased performance, and reduced TCO.

Be it CRM, ERP, or supply chain management, IIS professionals will help you tailor those various applications and their underlying databases to an appropriate hardware environment. We deliver solutions for a range of industry verticals as well, including retail, financial, health care, and communications.

Database Consolidation and Tuning

As organizations seek ways for reducing IT overhead, they often target underutilized servers. By consolidating multiple servers onto shared hardware through virtualization, they can cut costs, reduce management, and maximize utilization.

Database consolidation offers similar opportunities. However, database servers are usually not virtualized because of intensive I/O requirements. IIS's knowledge of HP infrastructure and Oracle databases means that our professionals have the know-how to consolidate even complex database environments.

IIS professionals will audit your database environment and assess true capacity needs. Often, there are many more Oracle database servers than are actually required, since organizations tend to plan for far more capacity than they need. With today's modular, blade architectures, adding capacity is no longer a complex, labor-intensive task.

With seamless tiering of Oracle databases across storage tiers, your organization will experience increased performance, reduced operations costs and simplified management.

Once consolidated, HP Storage Essentials provide ongoing database availability and performance views. This unified approach to infrastructure management helps you maintain peak performance while preventing costly downtime.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

In today's fast-paced business environment, your production systems must remain constantly accessible and reliable. Data must be available at anytime and from anywhere, regardless of scheduled system downtime or unplanned outages.

Business continuity and disaster recovery plans for many organizations are often inadequate, untested or unrealistic. Moreover, BC/DR infrastructure is often different from production hardware, which complicates recovery and makes it a time-consuming and difficult task.

IIS delivers high-availability solutions from HP and Oracle that are designed to safeguard mission-critical systems from downtime by mirroring production data to a secondary system in real time, as well as providing reliable disaster recovery, ensuring that businesses remain open 24x7.

HP StorageWorks Continuous Information Capture continuously captures Oracle Database and Oracle Application information to enable information extraction and rollback to any point in time. HP StorageWorks Continuous Information Capture provides automated rollback in the event of an actual outage, providing you with point-in-time business views.

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