What are Oracle Engineered Systems?
Oracle in the DNA
Oracle engineered systems are systems that integrate hardware and software components to reduce the cost and complexity of IT infrastructures while increasing productivity and performance. Since these systems are pre-integrated by Oracle, the time it takes to go into production is dramatically reduced.
Oracle engineered systems are based on a balanced architecture. What this means is that clients can start with the right size configuration and grow as needed. The balanced configuration guarantees no bottlenecks will be introduced in the process.
It’s and old idea – Raw Iron
Around 1998, Oracle was already talking about the concept of engineered systems with the Raw Iron project, a type of Oracle database specialized appliance that never took off. One of the reasons was Oracle’s dependency on third parties to provide the building blocks of such an appliance.
Since then, Oracle has been slowly creating or buying the building blocks required to delivering Oracle engineered systems:
- Oracle Managed Files (OMF)
- Oracle Storage Management (ASM)
- Recovery Manager (RMAN)
- Oracle Enterprise Linux
- BEA/Weblogic acquisition
- Tangosol/Coherence acquisition
- Sun acquisition
These are just some examples of major milestones of this long in the making project.
What are the benefits?
(Extreme performance, fastest deployment at the lowest cost)
Oracle’s engineered systems are based on a balanced architecture. What this means is that clients can start with the right size configuration and grow as needed. The balanced configuration guarantees no bottlenecks will be introduced in the process.
Oracle’s engineered systems are optimized to achieve enterprise performance levels that are unmatched in the industry. Faster time to production is achieved by implementing pre-engineered and pre-assembled hardware and software bundles
Single-vendor stack simplifies and reduces the costs associated with purchasing, deploying, and supporting IT environments.
Available Oracle engineered systems
- Oracle Exadata Database Machine
The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is the only database machine that provides extreme performance for both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP) applications.
- Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud provides extreme performance for Java applications, Oracle Applications, and all other enterprise applications. It’s the best foundation for consolidating on Cloud.
- SPARC SuperCluster T4-4
Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 is the first general-purpose engineered system that combines the computing power of the new SPARC T4 processor, the performance and scalability of Oracle Solaris 11, the optimized database performance of Oracle Exadata storage, and the accelerated middleware processing of the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud.
- Oracle Database Appliance
The Oracle Database Appliance is an engineered system of software, servers, storage and networking that offers a simple, reliable, low-cost package for mid-range database workloads.
- Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine
Oracle Exalytics is the first engineered system featuring in-memory software and hardware and an optimized business intelligence platform with advanced visualization.
- Oracle Big Data Appliance
The Oracle Big Data Appliance is an engineered system optimized for acquiring, organizing and loading unstructured data into Oracle Database 11g.
- Sun ZFS Storage Appliance
Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliances provide robust application and data storage for Oracle’s SPARC SuperCluster and Exalogic Elastic Cloud, and offer immediate benefits for customers using NAS for enterprise applications, virtualization, cloud, storage consolidation, and data protection.
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