This blog has been offering up some quick glimpses on how IBM and Oracle customers have been able to cut operating costs, boost efficiency of the data infrastructure and better manage risk that's inherent in data collection, use and storage.

If you'd like to find out how your organization could benefit, it's easy as IBM provides a free total cost of ownership (TOC) analysis of consolidating servers and storage environments via the IBM Systems Consolidation Evaluation Tool.

Then all you need to do is have an IBM Systems Makeover Analysis for Oracle Environments conducted to see just how well your Oracle environment is performing and where it can do better.

Yes it takes a little time, but the results will very likely surprise you.