Database Cloud Storage

APPENDIX

Best Practices for Database Consolidation in Private Clouds

This book would not be complete if we did not touch on the overall deployment best practices for a Private Database Cloud and consolidation. Consolidation is one of the major strategies that organizations are pursuing to achieve greater efficiencies in their operations. Consolidation allows organizations to increase the utilization of IT resources, which lowers costs because fewer resources are required to achieve the same outcome. Operational costs are also reduced because fewer components and objects need to be monitored, managed, and maintained.

In this appendix, we describe ...