Unlock Oracle AI Database 26ai Readiness with an Actionable Infrastructure Assessment

In a previous post, “Is Your Platform Ready for Oracle AI Database 26ai?” my colleague Andrew Sillifant explored the revolutionary AI-driven features and autonomous capabilities that define this new release. The roadmap to Oracle AI Database 26ai indeed promises a future of autonomous efficiency and AI-driven insights. But for many IT leaders, the path forward is obscured by a fundamental question: Is our current infrastructure sized for tomorrow, or are we carrying the weight of yesterday’s inefficiencies?  

While Oracle Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) reports are the gold standard for database telemetry, they’re often difficult to translate into a strategic infrastructure plan. At Everpure, we’ve bridged this gap by providing our customers and prospects with actionable assessments that transform raw database metrics into a precise roadmap for migration readiness.

Visualizing the bigger picture

To prepare an environment for migration to Oracle 26ai, administrators must look beyond individual database metrics to understand the entire ecosystem. Moving to a holistic view requires addressing three key areas:

1. The siloed vs. ecosystem view: Standard AWR reports provide deep insights on a single database instance. However, they don’t implicitly capture the context of the entire server or storage environment, making it impossible to see the big picture of your infrastructure.

2. The danger of averaging: Standard reports often average data over long periods. This math smoothes out the “peaks and valleys,” hiding the very performance bottlenecks that could impact your Oracle 26ai experience. For a more accurate picture, you need to identify the precise moments of maximum demand that truly test your infrastructure’s limits.

3. Storage context: Traditional telemetry provides deep database insights. Infrastructure planning, however, requires additional context regarding actual physical storage utilization, overhead, and growth capacity that typical reports may not emphasize.

With our assessment approach, Everpure moves beyond averages. This provides a holistic view of your entire ecosystem, capturing data across every instance to identify exactly where your infrastructure stands today.

A holistic approach to actionable intelligence

This Oracle 26ai readiness assessment can be performed by Everpure database experts and creates high-resolution data consolidation to ensure your infrastructure is ready for the future. 

1. Full ecosystem capture: We run non-intrusive scripts across all database instances to create a global, consolidated view of your environment.

Figure 1: A complete view of the database estate.

2. Granular time-series analysis: We move beyond multi-day averages to hour-by-hour snapshots. This allows for peak window analysis, which identifies precisely when your demand spikes and helps ensure your new environment is built to handle it.

Figure 2: Peak Oracle database workload analysis beyond traditional averages.

3. Automated sizing: We take the guesswork out of procurement by translating raw performance metrics into specific storage sizing and configuration recommendations tailored for Oracle 26ai readiness assessments.

Figure 3: Assessing infrastructure readiness for Oracle 26ai across the database estate.

Identifying waste and right-sizing for the future

A key part of visualizing the bigger picture is identifying where resources are overprovisioned. Many environments suffer from redundancy inflation, where multiple copies of data are stored unnecessarily, leading to massive amounts of wasted physical space. 

In a recent real-world assessment, an Everpure prospect believed they needed 200TB of storage for their upgrade. Our analysis revealed they only required 18TB of primary data. This massive gap was caused by their legacy ASM High Redundancy setup, which requires three data copies. 

By moving to Oracle-recommended external redundancy supported by Everpure RAID 3D technology, the customer reclaimed two-thirds of their storage. Furthermore, we replaced inefficient full database clones for dev/test with space-efficient snapshots, eliminating the need for over 180TB of wasted capacity.

Our analysis automatically detects active features like Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC), and Smart Scan. This ensures your next-gen environment is configured to support these advanced features from day one, without overprovisioning.

Security and privacy by design

We know that data privacy is paramount. The Everpure Oracle infrastructure assessment process includes automated masking of hostnames and SQL identifiers. Sensitive raw data is never exposed. Only the actionable results and sizing recommendations are shared with Everpure advisors.

Take the guesswork out of your Oracle 26ai migration

Don’t let legacy inefficiencies slow down your transition to the future of Oracle. Speak with an Everpure advisor today to request your comprehensive Oracle environment assessment.