Hardware and Software,
Engineered to Work
Together
Oracle debuts dozens of products and technologies at
Oracle Open World, JavaOne, and Oracle Develop.
From the opening keynote through the final session, Oracle unveiled dozens
of new products and technologies during
Oracle Open World, JavaOne, and Oracle
Develop 2010 in San Francisco, California.
“This week, we’ve announced more new
technology innovations than at any time in
the history of Oracle,” said Oracle CEO Larry
Ellison during his second keynote address
at Oracle Open World. Two of the products
introduced at Oracle Open World—Oracle
Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle’s Exadata
Database Machine X2-8—exemplify Oracle’s
focus on integrating its software with next-
generation hardware, Ellison said. “If you
engineer hardware and software to work
together, you get a much better overall
system,” he explained, “and the overall user
experience is better.”
Ellison summarized those two key product
announcements, as well as several others,
including Oracle Fusion Applications and
Oracle’s Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. He
also offered a roadmap for the Java platform.
ORACLE EXALOGIC ELASTIC CLOUD
HAR TMANN STUDIOS
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is an integrated
hardware and software system that provides
a complete cloud application infrastructure
for consolidating a wide range of Java and
non-Java application types and workloads.
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud combines 30
64-bit x86 processors, an InfiniBand-based
I/O fabric, and solid-state storage with
Oracle WebLogic Server, other enterprise
Java middleware products, and a choice
of Oracle Solaris or Oracle Linux operating
system software.
“Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is a com-
plete system of servers, network, storage,
VM [virtual machine], operating system,
and middleware, all engineered to work
together,” said Ellison. “This delivers stun-
ning results, including the fastest Java per-
formance, elastic capacity on demand, and
a completely fault-tolerant system.”
Engineered for large-scale, mission-
critical deployments, Oracle Exalogic
Elastic Cloud provides the foundation for
enterprise-class multitenancy or cloud appli-
cations. Ellison explained that it can support
thousands of applications, making it an ideal
platform for enterprisewide datacenter con-
solidation. “Exalogic runs everything. It’s a
cloud in a box,” said Ellison. “Exalogic is Big
Iron without a big price. It replaces millions
of dollars of hardware and software, it’s a
much lower-cost solution than a configura-
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison recaps the major product
announcements at Oracle Open World.
fault tolerant with no single points of failure,
unlike IBM’s SMP [symmetric multipro-cessing] boxes.”
EXADATA DATABASE MACHINE X2-8
The Exadata Database Machine X2-8 is
the latest addition to the Oracle Exadata
Database Machine product family, and it
delivers a high-capacity system for high-volume online transaction processing
(OLTP), data warehousing, and consolidated
workloads. The Exadata Database Machine
X2-8 runs Oracle Database 11 g, Oracle Real
Application Clusters, Oracle Enterprise
Manager, and Oracle Exadata Storage
Software to provide software, servers,
storage, and networking. Supported operating systems include Oracle’s Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel for Oracle Linux and Oracle
Solaris Express 11.
“The newest Exadata system, X2-8, has all
of the advantages of the current Exadata, but
more,” said Oracle President Mark Hurd at
his Oracle Open World keynote address, who
described it as a secure, fault-tolerant, com-
plete grid, or private cloud. “[It has] beefier
processors in the database to handle more
users, two 8-processor Intel servers, and 2
terabytes of memory to hold large amounts of
data. The advantage is speed—raw speed.”
The Exadata Database Machine X2-8
features two 8-socket database servers with
a total of 128 Intel CPU cores and 2 terabytes
of memory; 14 Exadata Storage Servers with
168 Intel CPU cores and up to 336 terabytes
of raw storage capacity; more than 5 tera-
bytes of Oracle Exadata’s Smart Flash Cache;
40-gigabit InfiniBand internal connectivity;
and 10-gigabit Ethernet external connectivity.
