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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Systems/Enterprise:
Database SERVER VIRTUALIZATION
ELIMINATES GRID LOCK
Savantis Systems Inc, a leading provider of adaptive database
infrastructure
solutions, unveiled its plan for broader support in the data center, enabling
companies to expand their utility computing initiatives. Savantis' dbSwitch
for Oracle was met with excellent response upon its introduction last year;
Savantis now plans to support IBM's UDB, Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase in
it's next release.
dbSwitch virtualizes the database layer by pooling underutilized database
server resources into a Database Area Network (DAN), efficiently allocating
capacity across multiple applications. By providing capacity management,
resource optimization, and server consolidation, Savantis reduces database
total cost of ownership.
"When we introduced dbSwitch we targeted the Oracle community, with
successful
results," said Michael Blundin, Savantis vice president of Product Management.
"Our customers saw immediate reduction in TCO by virtualizing their database
server resources. Many of them urged us to move forward with additional
database support."
Gartner recently posted research detailing worldwide RDBMS market share. In
the UNIX and Windows market, it shows significant growth of new license sales
of Microsoft SQL Server, IBM's UDB and others, with Oracle remaining out
front. According to the study, Microsoft SQL Server currently accounts for
22.8 percent of the market and IBM's UDB for 24.2 percent.
Blundin continued, "Most data centers today run databases from multiple
DBMS
vendors, and managers are looking for ways to reduce the cost across the
entire database layer. In fact one of our customers, a leading hosting
provider, is currently leveraging dbSwitch to offer their existing services at
a higher margin. With the support of additional databases, they can virtualize
their entire database population, and offer database as a service."
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