October 13th, 2010
Oracle OpenWorld: the world’s largest IT event focused purely on Oracle’s dedication to helping enterprises to achieve the most from Oracle investments and harness the power of the information that they hold. Oracle Support providers Xynomix take a look at three of Oracle’s key announcements…
Exalogic Elastic Cloud:
The Exalogic Elastic Cloud. According to Oracle, it is the world’s first integrated middleware machine: a complete Cloud infrastructure in one box. It combines 64-bit x86 processors, an InfiniBand-based I/O fabric and solid-state storage with the Oracle WebLogic Server, other enterprise Java Oracle middleware products and either Oracle Solaris or Oracle Linux operating system software to deliver extreme performance. Oracle claim that initial performance statistics show that the Exalogic Elastic Cloud delivers 10x better performance than a standard application server configuration. Also, the performance of the entire Oracle Fusion Middleware product portfolio and applications running on Oracle WebLogic Server with either Oracle Linux or Oracle Solaris 11 is said to significantly increase with the Exalogic Elastic Cloud.
Soundbite:
“Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is a complete system of servers, network, storage, VM, operating system and middleware, all engineered to work together,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. “This delivers stunning results, including the fastest Java performance, elastic capacity on demand and a completely fault tolerant system.” [Source: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/173459]
Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.0:
An important part of the Oracle Virtualization portfolio, Oracle VM Server for SPARC is pre-installed on Oracle’s SPARC T-Series servers. It allows organisations to operate with flexibility, taking full advantage of improved server utilization: with Oracle VM Server for SPARC, a maximum of 128 virtual servers can be deployed on one system using SPARC T-Series servers’ large threading capacity.
Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.0 supports complex and sophisticated enterprise workloads, including Oracle Real Application Clusters [RAC] environments. It includes performance, resource management, flexibility, power management and availability enhancements.
Oracle Fusion Applications:
According to Larry Ellison’s presentation, Oracle Fusion Applications are the result of an assimilation of Oracle’s applications middleware team and Oracle Fusion Middleware team, working with the best Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and JD Edwards features to create the “next generation of applications”
[Source: http://blogs.oracle.com/oracleopenworld/2010/09/ellison_highlights_history-mak.html].
The Fusion Applications will be on general release next year and aim to provide Web 2.0, social networking and collaboration capabilities for a modern, consistent and productive user experience. The technology is Service Oriented Architecture [SOA] based and is SaaS-ready.
