Oracle launches VM templates

Oracle has launched its VM templates to enable rapid deployment of enterprise software.

They offer a time-saving approach to deploying a fully configured software stack by providing pre-installed and pre-configured images of enterprise software.

They also enable customers to reduce installation, configuration, and ongoing maintenance costs.

Oracle VM supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications and offers customers scalable, low-cost server virtualization backed by the IT major’s world-class support.

The templates also help eliminate the need to install new products from scratch thereby offering faster time to market. Customers can simply copy Oracle VM templates to the server where Oracle VM resides and they will have a fully installed and configured software environment.

“Customers are experiencing increased challenges as the volume of information in their data centre continues to grow rapidly, leading to added hardware and energy costs and a depletion of server resources,” said Wim Coekaerts, vice president Linux Engineering, Oracle.

“The combination of Oracle VM templates and Oracle VM offers customers the full benefits of server virtualization, leading to further lowering the cost of data centre operations and contributing to green IT,’ he added.

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UC4 Software Joins the Oracle Modernisation Alliance

UC4 Software has joined the Oracle Modernisation Alliance (OMA). OMA is an alliance of technology providers who have teamed with Oracle to help legacy IT organisations investigate architectures for IT modernisation to open systems. The workload automation provider brings more than two decades of application integration and enterprise job scheduling expertise to the OMA.

UC4 Software is part of the modernisation framework and provides operations excellence and workload management solutions to customers demanding mainframe reliability and control from distributed IT systems.

UC4 Software has the familiar functionality of a mainframe job scheduler and quickly integrates with business applications and open systems to manage business processing across applications and operating platforms. Customers can gain central control of existing mainframe schedulers or use UC4's proven conversion routines to migrate workload onto its workload automation tools.

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Arvind Selects Oracle Retail To Support Growth Plans

Arvind Ltd, the company which operates its retail chain under the name 'Megamart', has selected Oracle Retail merchandising, planning, supply chain and stores applications to support its aggressive growth plans as it seeks to achieve leadership in fashion and value retailing in India.

The company recently opened the second of its large format value store, Megamart Outlet Centre, in Pune (the first being in Chennai), and is planning to establish more than 250 large and small format stores across the country over the next three to four years at an investment of over $100 million.

According to the company, Oracle Retail will help support these plans by providing Arvind with an integrated platform to manage its retail processes from supply chain to stores. Oracle Retail and other business applications will be deployed through Arvind's network of a centralised distribution centre and other regional distribution centres across India.

"Upon evaluating the retail software market, we identified that the best practices embedded in Oracle Retail applications will help us in many ways, including creating a product mix based on our customers' buying patterns and forecasting customer behaviour based on historical data. Oracle Retail will give us a head start as we plan our stores network," said J Suresh, chief executive officer, Arvind Brands & Retail.

With this deployment, Arvind expects to increase its inventory turns, improve its forecast accuracy, enable shorter replenishment lead times and overall improve its service levels to the current 93 Megamart stores and Outlet Centres.

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