In today's environment, IT projects are increasingly scrutinized, so expenditures must support both immediate business requirements and contribute to the operational efficiency of the data center. Being prepared with an up - to - date roadmap and clear objectives for exploiting business technologies for better business outcomes is critical. HP and Oracle can help you define and implement that roadmap based on highly complementary technologies. Your starting point? Oracle's Grid Computing architecture and HP Adaptive Infrastructure. Oracle's unique ability to dynamically optimize shared resources combined with HP technology to simplify and automate administration of the physical and virtual platforms are an unbeatable combination.