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To reach the highest levels of success, companies today must meet the challenges of constantly evolving technology and rapid-fire change that impact the data center, while maximizing productivity and profit. It’s a daunting task. Fortunately, the chance of success for any business grows exponentially when global technology leaders join forces to deliver world-class capability solutions for the data center.

Industry leaders AMD, HP, Microsoft and Oracle have the engineering expertise and trusted business relationships to provide proven, customer-centric solutions that deliver the high performance, reliability and scalability essential in today’s computing environment. Providing highly optimized solutions based on AMD64 technology, the combination of HP ProLiant servers running Oracle Database and Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions can turn your data center investments into a powerful competitive advantage.

DESIGNED FOR LONGEVITY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY

AMD Opteron™ processors offer a stable, long-term solution based on trusted consistent technology – the common AMD64 core. This powerful, highly efficient architecture lets IT departments deploy a single industry-standard architecture across an entire organization. So you can grow, adapt and respond more effectively in a dynamic business environment.

With energy-efficient DDR2 memory, AMD Virtualization™ and multicore processing, AMD Opteron processor-based HP ProLiant servers provide the high performance, energy efficiency and open versatility that translate into simpler IT systems and consolidated resources – keys to reducing your infrastructure costs and conserving your IT budget.

POWERFUL YET AFFORDABLE BUSINESS SOLUTIONS

At the foundation of critical data center resources is proven technology from the industry alliance of AMD and HP. For years, AMD and HP have worked closely together to design technology that exceeds the need for powerful yet affordable enterprise computing, today and well into the future.

HP, building the most-trusted, bestselling servers in the world, is the leading provider of servers based on AMD Opteron processors. That’s because AMD64 technology delivers the innovation and value advantages to simplify business. HP has leveraged that technology, deploying the AMD Opteron processor’s 64-bit architecture in its new C-class BladeSystem and its current ProLiant servers for powerful multiprocessor performance and energy efficiency in the data center.

With the broadest portfolio in the industry, HP delivers superior choice that can reliably support any need, from basic infrastructure to the most demanding business applications. So you can find the right product at the right price to fit your precise business requirements and put complete control into your hands. From the growing small business and remote office to the largest data center, businesses of all sizes rely on ProLiant servers and the HP BladeSystem to deliver the consistent manageability, high performance and superb reliability that is expected from the ProLiant brand.

HIGHLY AVAILABLE DATABASES MADE TO SCALE OUT

Optimized for AMD-powered HP ProLiant server infrastructure running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions, Oracle Database and Real Application Clusters support the most demanding transaction processing and business intelligence applications. Clustering database applications on a grid of AMD-powered HP servers provides you with record-breaking performance and 24/7 availability on a Windows platform that can incrementally scale out at low cost.

Oracle RAC is an option to the awardwinning Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. Oracle RAC supports the deployment of a single database across a cluster of servers – providing unbeatable fault tolerance and scalability with no application changes needed.

With Oracle Database optimized for AMD, HP and Microsoft, your organization can:

• Achieve 24/7 availability and ondemand scalability with Oracle RAC;
• Protect sensitive data and help meet compliance requirements with Oracle’s advanced security options, with further enhanced capabilities available in the Oracle Database 11g release; and
• Take the risk of change in your data center with Oracle Real Application Testing.

Technology in the Right Combination

As business computing transitions beyond 32-bit technology, AMD, HP and Microsoft are working together to transition the server world to 64-bit computing. Windows x64 Editions, including Windows Server 2003, bring to the mainstream industry-standard platforms combining the power of 64-bit processing with the world’s largest application base. With Windows Server 2003, the result is high-performance, highly reliable, security-enhanced computing that gives users the confidence to cost-effectively do more, faster and safer than ever before.

Realize all the benefits of Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions including:

• Scalability – Support for vastly greater physical memory and virtual memory space enables new scenarios not possible before;
• Reliability – Windows x64 Editions benefit from the same, solid source code as x86 versions of Windows;
• Security – New features in x64 processors enable better protection from malicious code; and
• Compatibility – The unprecedented compatibility of x64 processors with existing 32-bit applications will enable a controlled transition to 64-bit computing.

IT’S A SMART BUSINESS INVESTMENT

In today’s demanding, increasingly complex computing world, reliable and scalable database performance can often mean the difference between success and falling short of business goals. It’s why delivering proven, leadership technology from worldclass partners to the data center can be a business’ smartest investment.

AMD64-powered HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers running Oracle Database and RAC on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions unleash a powerful combination of leading technology for unparalleled performance in the data center.