“Having our databases, infrastructure, and applications in the same
place will greatly simplify our datacenter topology.”
—Chris Brewer, Vice President of Platform Technologies, PHH
standard server and storage building blocks.
In addition, Oracle software technology
enables Oracle Exalogic applications to
share data efficiently and transparently—
extending Oracle’s application grid technology, which enables multiple application
server instances to share a dynamically allocated pool of resources.
“Oracle customers used to assemble
application grids and database grids them-
selves,” says PHH’s Brewer. “Now, with the
Oracle Exalogic and Oracle Exadata systems,
Oracle has pre-engineered these solutions
in advance, with all of the components inte-
grated, tuned, and tested at the factory.”
Organizations can start with a quarter
rack, grow to a half rack or full rack, and
connect as many as eight full racks of Oracle
Exalogic hardware (or any combination of
Oracle Exalogic and Oracle Exadata con-
figurations) without any external switches.
This extensible architecture provides nearly
unlimited horizontal scalability and elimi-
nates the need for an ongoing purchase,
configure, test, and deploy cycle for unique
configurations of hardware and software.
“All of the hardware and software comes
from Oracle, so we can make sure that there
are no single points of failure and that all
of the various scenarios are well tested,”
Oracle’s Messinger points out.
ARCHI TEC TURE DISCUSSIONS
In February 2010, the Oracle Consulting
Enterprise Architecture team led several
discussions with PHH about how to best
realize the company’s goal of a Common
Technology Platform.
“Oracle helped us develop a reference
architecture that became a blueprint for our
Common Technology Platform,” says Nathan
Smith, director of enterprise architecture
and chief architect at PHH. “Oracle took the
time to understand our business and technological challenges. They helped us develop
