Advisor response: It is not a case of protecting the existing food chain as it is not sustainable in the long run. We must start by becoming much more focused on sustainability, waste, interrogated management of resources. Whilst populations continue to be controlled in developed countries the impacts of increased populations in developing countries and dwindling resources or the need to protect our environment must come before short term quick fixes.

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What are the key changes in the outsourcing market in 2012? What do you believe will happen in 2013 within the BPO space?

Advisor response: Exadata is hands down the best platform to run Oracle databases. The fact that it has Oracle SQL technology embedded in the storage layer in combination with high speed, low latency InfiniBand networking allows it to outperform all other platforms. My experience is that databases run at least 10 times faster when ported to the platform without doing any tuning . Since a lot of the heavy lifting is moved to the storage layer, we find the database servers using far less memory and CPU than they did on their legacy platforms so you can consolidate many more databases on the Exadata machine. To reduce O&M costs we generally perform significant database consolidations often reducing the total number of databases by a factor of ten but this is obviously very environment specific. We do generally find significant database sprawl out there. We'd advise addressing that issue as you migrate and not just migrate the sprawl to the Exadata.

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