There is a newly released white paper from Oracle entitled "Operational Impact of Deploying Engineered Systems (Exadata)" available at the Exadata Partner Community Collaborative Workspace (for community members only -- registration and log in are required). The paper considers how the traditional role of system administrators responsible for managing individual portions of the technology stack are now able, with the integrated nature of lifecycle management in an engineered system, to perform their duties more comprehensively in a less complex environment that delivers improved performance and reduced management costs.
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