Oracle Consulting announced new service offerings that enable customers and partners to realize the advantages of Enterprise Grid Computing one step at a time. Oracle Information Architecture Services leverages best practices and enables customers to "get on the Grid" with a step-by-step approach that helps reduce the complexity and risk of evolving an IT infrastructure to fully leverage the benefits of an Enterprise Grid Computing model. Using these services to implement their Enterprise Grid Computing strategy, customers can take advantage of the benefits of Enterprise Grid Computing, including low-cost, high-density hardware, consolidated information sources, dynamic workload management and automated systems management. "We developed Oracle Information Architecture Services to address increasingly complex information-management needs with a well-defined technology vision, architecture, and implementation plan," said Andy Bailey, senior vice president, Oracle Consulting. "With Oracle Information Architecture Services, we can help customers implement Enterprise Grid Computing in a way that reduces the duration and cost of their technology implementation." Oracle Information Architecture Services for Grid enable customers to take advantage of Enterprise Grid Computing to become more efficient, flexible, and responsive to their business drivers in a phased approach. The specific services within this family of offerings include: -- Oracle Discover Briefings for Grid -- customer briefing sessions focused on uncovering current challenges and planning their future technology vision to realize the business objectives of the organization. -- Oracle Solve Workshops for Grid -- a more in-depth strategic workshop format that can include a Strategy Workshop, Architecture Assessment, or an Architecture Design and Blueprint Session. All workshops identify and map a path to an Enterprise Grid computing environment with a customer-specific technology solution. Senior solution architects assess customer business challenges, and provide expert design assistance to help ensure a compatible reference architecture and roadmap. -- Oracle Build Accelerators for Grid -- leverage Oracle best practices and Oracle Consulting expertise to help lower deployment risks and ensure a rapid realization of your business goals. Knowledge transfer and a production ready instance are enabled with these accelerators: - Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Accelerators for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition streamline the deployment of a database cluster. - Oracle Data Guard 10g Accelerator helps ensure the availability of your mission-critical systems. - Oracle Database 10g Upgrade Accelerator facilitates an upgrade to the latest Oracle database. - Oracle Database only or Database and Application Migration Factory Accelerator speeds the migration of an existing 3rd party database to Oracle as well as the associated custom applications. - Oracle E-Business Suite on Grid Accelerator enables customers to maximize applications scale and availability.