In order to drive better value for spending, the IT team at the New South Wales Health Department (NSW Health) plans to migrate their IT infrastructure to a shared services model using Intel® architecture–based servers that deliver industry-leading price/performance and scalability. To validate their capacity predictions, the IT staff asked consultants from Intel® Solution Services to conduct a pilot test, demonstrating the scalability of one application—Oracle Financials*—running on Intel architecture–based servers. The tests showed the Intel/Oracle platform achieving near-linear scalability, which gave the IT team the data it needed to accurately predict the capacity necessary to meet growth projections.

The Challenge:
• Establish confidence that the proposed servers can cost-effectively accommodate growth by measuring the scalability of Oracle Financials* running on Intel® architecture–based servers

The Solution:
• Intel® Solution Services migrated Oracle Financials from legacy servers based on the UNIX* operating system and conducted a pilot test, which demonstrated near-linear scalability on Intel architecture–based servers
• These findings gave NSW Health’s IT team a basis for accurate estimates of capacity to meet future user requirements as well as confidence that an Intel architecture–based platform would deliver superb price/performance for many years to come

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