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In computing, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is a processing environment marketed by Oracle Corporation. Oracle Corporation portrays it as the world’s first engineered system specifically designed to provide enterprises with a foundation for a secure, mission-critical private cloud capable of virtually unlimited scale, unbeatable performance, and previously unimaginable management simplicity.[citation needed] Exalogic is stated as the ideal[citation needed] platform for applications of all[citation needed] types from small-scale departmental applications to the largest and most demanding ERP and mainframe applications. While Exalogic is optimized for enterprise Java, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Corporation’s Fusion Applications, it also provides an environment for the thousands of third-party and custom Linux and Solaris applications widely deployed as of 2010. Simply put, Exalogic is a step forward in realizing Oracle Corporation’s vision for the datacenter of the 21st century.[citation needed]

Datacenter challenges

It is not uncommon that enterprise information-technology (IT) organizations after years of innovation, expansion and acquisition have developed a complex infrastructure with multiple platforms and technologies that requires significant efforts to manage. In response, a number of technologies and practices have become prominent for large enterprises, ranging from consolidation, virtualization and centralized storage to enterprise-wide standardization of software and hardware. In addition, these techniques have given way to adoption of a more centralized, automated, and elastic infrastructure which is commonly referred to[by whom?] as the “private cloud”. However, maximum performance, while balancing openness, reliability, cost, flexibility, and resource efficiency, may only be achieved with systems engineered together to make use of the clouds architecture.[citation needed][not specific enough to verify]

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is supposedly the world's first integrated cloud machine with hardware and software engineered together to provide a "cloud in a box". Oracle Corporation has designed Oracle Exalogic to promote datacenter consolidation, providing disparate, mission-critical, performance-sensitive workloads with maximum reliability, availability, and security.


Oracle Corporation launched the Oracle Exalogic product at Oracle OpenWorld 2010.

Key Features
• Datacenter building block containing fully integrated compute nodes, storage, and networking

• Choice of x86 or SPARC compute nodes

• Fully integrated ZFS network attached storage appliance with 40TB of SAS disk storage

• QDR InfiniBand IO Fabric, with 40 Gb/second throughput and microsecond latencies

• Datacenter service network integration with 10 GbE

• Scalable, open standard grid architecture

• Highly optimized, tuned and pre-configured for running Oracle’s entire Fusion Middleware stack

• Complete redundancy for high availability

Key Benefits
• Fastest Java performance with application accelerated by 10x

• Foundation for mission-critical cloud with no single point of failure

• Hardware and software engineered together for data-center efficiency and IT agility[citation needed]

• One platform for all enterprise application consolidation

• Scale up to 8 racks without external switches

• Factory-installed Oracle Solaris or Enterprise Linux

• Complete application to bare-metal management with Oracle Enterprise manager

See also

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