Computacenter stretches its cloud offering

Services giant becomes first Oracle Platinum partner to adopt its Exalogic Elastic Cloud portfolio

Computacenter has become the first Oracle channel partner to sign up to its Exalogic Elastic Cloud portfolio.

The move follows the infrastructure and services giant’s move to the cloud earlier this year with its C3 and C3 Mail offerings, and adds more might to its existing Oracle portfolio.

Oracle’s latest system will enable Computacenter – a Platinum level partner – to drive down cost and complexity by consolidating application server and software stacks.

In addition, Computacenter will be able to help its customers benchmark Exalogic against other virtual datacentre solutions and more traditional application server infrastructures, using its Solution Centre.

Neill Burton, director of datacentre solutions at Computacenter, said: “We are committed to bringing the latest technology to our customers, and see a real opportunity for Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud to help organisations get value from their applications and provide a platform for datacentre consolidation.

“We will be bringing together our knowledge and expertise in storage, servers, network and software with our vast experience offering Oracle acquisition and integration advice to help organisations get the most out of this technology.”

Burton added: “We have worked with Oracle for many years and were one of the first partners to invest in Oracle Exadata, which combines Oracle’s smart storage software and Oracle’s Sun systems to deliver the industry’s highest database performance.

“We have the ability to fully exploit and optimise the database-to-application stack from Oracle. We believe that having both Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud proof of concept environments can help de-risk the adoption of a truly formidable Exa-datacentre approach to the provision of IT services.”

Alan Hartwell, vice president of technology solutions and channels at Oracle UK, said: “Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is the world's first and only integrated cloud machine – hardware and software engineered together to revolutionise datacentre consolidation.

“As a result, it can help enterprises to bring together disparate, mission-critical, performance-sensitive workloads with maximum reliability, availability and security. Implementation partners with proven experience and deployment of Oracle solutions around infrastructure projects, such as Computacenter, can be considered valuable resources for our joint customers.”