The Business Case for
Oracle Exalogic
Stephane Moriceau
Sr. Director
Exalogic Product Management
Andy Chow
Sales Consulting Director
APAC Enterprise Architecture Team
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Agenda
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Top 5 CEO business objectives
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Oracle Exalogic – A brief description

Oracle Exalogic’s sweet spots
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Customer success stories
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Conclusion
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Top 5 CEO business
objectives and their
corresponding
IT challenges
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Top 5 CEO business objectives
And their corresponding IT challenges
 Increasing Enterprise Growth
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Attracting and retaining new customers
Creating new products and services (innovation)
Restore brand loyalty and provide innovative services & products
 Maximizing Revenue & Profitability
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Manage growth in Emerging and Strategic markets
Real-time view of profitability and product performance
 Reviving Financial Performance
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Reducing operating costs
Shift spend to Transformation projects
 Improving efficiency
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Accelerate rate of change to lower Time to Value
Reduce risk
 Data: manage growth & unlock potential
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Data can easily grow to multiple Million messages/sec
Social Media Intelligence strategy (market sentiment)
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IT challenges
 IT Efficiency
 Buy vs. Build for faster Timeto-Market/Time-to-Value
 Streamline IT
 Retire Legacy Systems
 Scalability
 Elastic Platform for rapid
deployments of new channels,
services, products.
 High Availability
 Extreme Performance
 High speed scalable processing
 High speed event processing
 Low latency
 Large Data Management
 Big Data, Fast Data
 Reduce Risk
 Standardize to lower complexity
 Integrated support/maintenance
Oracle Exalogic:
Brief Introduction
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Part I: The “Red” Stack
Pluggable & Modular software architecture
Oracle
Identity
Management
 Software Complete
OBIEE
Oracle Middleware OTD
SOA
Oracle Database
WebLogic
Coherence
OGG
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ODI
 Integrated Solution
OEP
Java SE
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T
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x o
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 Proven
“People who are really serious about software should
make their own hardware.”
Alan Kay
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✔ Efficiency
Part II: The Engineered Systems
Software and Hardware engineered together
Scalability
High Availability
Extreme Performance
Large Data Management
Reduce Risk
Application &
Middleware
OS
Virtualization &
Cloud Management
Compute
Integrated
Tuned
Optimized
Identical
Networking
Storage Layer
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1 Engineered System
Unpack to production
in hours
✔ Efficiency
✔ Scalability
Exalogic X3-2
High Availability
Extreme Performance
Large Data Management
Reduce Risk
Seamless Scalability
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Eighth Rack
Quarter Rack
Half Rack
4 Nodes
8 Nodes
16 Nodes
1 TB RAM
800 GB SSD
60 TB NAS
2 TB RAM
1.6 TB SSD
60 TB NAS
4 TB RAM
3.2 TB SSD
60 TB NAS
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Full Rack
Multi-Rack
30 Nodes 240+ Nodes
7.7 TB RAM
6 TB SSD
60 TB NAS
61+ TB RAM
48+ TB SSD
480+ TB NAS
✔ Efficiency
Built-in High Availability
Fault Tolerant Exalogic Architecture
Exalogic Rack
Compute Nodes
InfiniBand Gateways
Storage System
Management Switch
Compute Nodes
InfiniBand Spine Switch
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✔ Scalability
✔ High Availability
Extreme Performance
Large Data Management
Reduce Risk
 Dual Power Distribution Units (1+1)
 Dual power supplies in each
component (1+1)
 N+1 cooling (fan) strategy
 Redundant IB switches (1+1)
 Dual HCA ports in every
component (bonded, 1+1)
 Redundant storage heads (1+1)
 All SSD and HDD RAID 1+
✔ Efficiency
✔ Scalability
✔ High Availability
✔ Extreme Performance
Exabus
Optimized Network Virtualization
Large Data Management
Reduce Risk
Standard Hardware I/O
Application
Application
Application Buffer
Application Buffer
Copy
Exabus
Application
Application
TCP IP Transport
Kernel
20% Buffer Copies
40% Transport Processing
40 % Kernel Context Switches
Zero Buffer Copy
Direct Memory Access
Kernel Bypass
4X Throughput, 6X Lower Latency
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✔ Efficiency
Exalogic Middleware Optimization
✔ Scalability
✔ High Availability
✔ Extreme Performance
Large Data Management
Reduce Risk
Minimum Latency, Maximum Throughput
Identity Platform
I/O from Traffic Director, Cloud Application Foundation, Operating System,
Exadata architected to use Exabus fabric for all inter-process communication
Traffic Director/Web Tier
WebLogic
Server
Coherence
Tuxedo
Virtual Assembly Builder
Cloud Application Foundation
Exalogic Elastic Cloud
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Maximum Density
Cloud Application Foundation and Operating System designed to share more
memory to minimize footprint
Maximum Performance with Hardware Integration
Cloud Application Foundation optimized directly for processor, memory
configuration, storage appliance and Exabus fabric
✔ Efficiency
Oracle Exalogic and Exadata Together
Designed for Seamless Interoperability, Unmatched Performance
✔ Scalability
✔ High Availability
✔ Extreme Performance
Large Data Management
Reduce Risk
960 Gigabits/second
(Maximum: 24x InfiniBand QDR)
Exalogic
• Exclusive: direct InfiniBand integration!
• Extreme performance, reliability, security
• Simple to deploy and manage
Typical
OLTP Performance gain
Active GridLink
• Resource-aware load balancing
• Instantaneous connection failover
• Transaction affinity to RAC nodes
• SQLnet optimized for InfiniBand SDP
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Exadata
✔ Efficiency
Exalogic Datacenter Integration
Simple View
Exalogic
Data Center
Service
Network
10GbE
Standard TOR/EOR
10GbE Switches
Data Center
Management
Network
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InfiniBand
GbE
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ZFS
Storage
Big Data
Appliance
Exadata
✔
✔
✔
✔
Scalability
High Availability
Extreme Performance
Large Data Management
Reduce Risk
✔ Efficiency
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✔
✔
✔
✔
Oracle Support for Exalogic
Scalability
High Availability
Extreme Performance
Large Data Management
Reduce Risk
ORACLE
PLATINUM SERVICES
Complete. Integrated. Proactive.
No Additional Cost
 24/7 support
 Only available for Engineered Systems
 Specialized Engineered Systems Support
 Oracle Engineers perform patching and
Team
 2-hour onsite response to hardware
updates
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 New Updates and Upgrades for Exalogic
Elastic Cloud Software, Storage, Network
and OS software, drivers and firmware
 My Oracle Support proactive
support portal
for certified configurations on Exalogic
 Faster and better service during outages:
5 Minute Fault Notification
15 Minute Restoration or
Escalation to Development
 "Phone home" automated
service requests (ASR)
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30 Minute Joint Debugging
with Development
Oracle Exalogic:
Sweet Spots
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Exalogic Supports All Use Cases
Traditional Silos
Static
Consolidation
Fairly Static
Private Cloud
Very Dynamic
Physical
Application/Server Consolidation
Private Cloud Capabilities
• Applicable for most customer
requirements
• Virtualization maturity of an
organization – Readiness from people,
• Multiple apps in a system with secure app
isolation (multi-tenancy)
• Consolidate multiple physical servers on a
single Exalogic system
• Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
- Multiple Accounts, Users and Apps,
concurrent administration
- Rapid provisioning of virtual machines,
networks and storage through Selfservice
• Path to Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
- Application Platform templates for
repeated use in Dev-Test-Prod lifecycle
process & technology perspective
• Consolidating large applications –
Applications having large processor and
memory requirement
• Risk Averse – Simplify the stack
• Choice of Linux or Solaris operating
system
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Subcapacity Licensing
• Apps with no need for complete node capacity
are able to reduce licensing and support costs
Deployment Simplification
• Use of OVM custom templates for production
deployment simplification and improved
consistency
Exalogic Sweet Spots
Deployment Types
Exalogic 4 Oracle MW
Best Performance and Lowest
TCO for Custom & ISV
Applications built on Oracle
Middleware or Java
Exalogic 4 APPS
Best Performance and Lowest
Risk for Oracle and ISV
Applications with Exalogic &
Exadata
Exalogic 4 CLOUD
Best Performance and Lowest
TCO on the strategic
Virtualization Platform for
Application and Middleware
Consolidation
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Target
Segment
Unique Capabilities
Customers with
custom developed
/ ISV applications
built on Oracle
MW
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Customers with
Oracle packaged
application(s)
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Highest Performance & Availability
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Application Specific Functionality – Oracle Applications In-Memory
modules
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Time to Market – VM template, Assemblies
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Peace of Mind / Lowered Risk with Platinum Support and Pro-active
Patching based on Collective Customer Experience
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The Strategic virtualized platform for Oracle middleware and applications
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Native performance & high throughput – the most efficient platform for
consolidation
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Single vendor, single throat to choke
Customers with
Oracle packaged
applications and/or
large Oracle MW
base
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Highest Performance & Availability
Lower TCO
Peace of Mind / Lowered Risk with Platinum Support and Pro-active
Patching based on Collective Customer Experience
PARTNER SOLUTIONS
CERTIFIED ON EXALOGIC
New Performance Record Set
for EVERY APPLICATION Tested
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Oracle Exalogic:
Customer Examples
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Top 4 reasons why customers are buying
Performance
• Performance pain today or potential scalability troubles in future
• Upside of running systems faster
Lower Risk
• Apps and Middleware Integrated, Tested, Tuned, Benchmarked, Supported by Oracle
• Peace of mind running Oracle on Oracle – One throat to choke
Hard Cost Savings
• On middleware licenses and reduced footprint – lowest total costs of acquisition
Soft Cost Savings
• Reduced staffing and management costs by adopting an Engineered System – lowest total
cost of ownership
• Project Performance – ability to delvier project more quickly at lower cost
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Exalogic for Oracle MW
Custom Developed - Internet Banking Portal
Customer Problems
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One of the largest private banks in
Taiwan with 147 domestic branches and
67 outlets abroad
$64B total assets and $1.8B revenue
Growth strategy:
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Bolstering strategic product capabilities
Developing key overseas markets
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Expand of their “channel service
platform’ to support growth
Platform relies heavily on the Internet
Banking Portal of which performance
and availability needs to be increased
Time to Market, Risk, and Cost ruled out
the application rewrite option.
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Existing Custom development Internet
Banking Portal
Coherence EE
1/8 rack EL (enough to support current
load and extensible to support growth)
to replace current platform (2 x Sun
T5240 servers)
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Coherence
Solution
•
Coh
Cluster
Coherence
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No application code changes
No delay to Time to Market
Increases output per core which
significantly lowers cost of scaling
Future proof infra to support growth
WebLogic
Portal
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Internet Banking Portal (WL Portal)
benchmark on Exalogic vs. equiv. env.
7x lower response time
6x higher thoughput
Coh*Web cust longer GC pauses by half
Start-up time reduced by 9x (full cache)
WebLogic
Portal
•
Staging
Server
WebLogi
c Cluster
Apache
HTTPD
Benefits
Production Servers
Apache
HTTPD
Results
Solution Architecture
Apache
HTTPD /
WebLogic Portal /
Coherence
Customer Profile
Exalogic OVM Hypervisor
CN01
CN02
CN03
Exalogic 1/8 Rack
CN04
Exalogic for Oracle MW
Custom Developed - Fast Data for M2M application
Customer Profile
Customer Problems
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One of the leading high-tech
manufacturers in Japan.
Their 3 main business domains are
Printer, Copier, and Digital camera.
No.1 or 2 global market share.
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Need to expand remote maintenance
system with increasing sales of MFP
High operational cost due to the
unconsolidated infrastructures
Need to manage HW EOL
Clacking DR site
Results
Benefits
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High Performance infrastructure
Implementation of a system that is able to
handle high transaction volume when the
number of devices is two million units.
Performance target is 1700TPS
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Solution Architecture
New architecture is able to support
increasing number of MFP units.
Reduce cost by system consolidation
DR Site
Improve service quality.
DR Solution Architecture
Solution
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Multi-Function Printer remote distributed
Management System
2 x 1/8 Rack Exalogic
OEP
Coherence
WLS
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Exalogic for Oracle MW
ISV Application – Payments: FUNDtech GPP (JEE & Tuxedo version)
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ISV application (GPP: Global PayPlus)
for UK-based Tier 1 global bank.
2 versions (JEE & Tuxedo)
Software and SaaS Provider in the
Transaction Banking and the Corporate
Treasury Industries.
•
Competition, routes to market, products,
regulation, and volumes are driving
Banks to chose between outsourcing
payment processing or start making
money on payments
Looking to boost payment business by
increasing capacity and cost efficiency
Results
Benefits
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JEE: Achieved 9.35 M/ hour mass
payments (baseline 6 M/hour)
JEE: Achieved 5.7 M/ hour single
payments (baseline 4 M/hour)
Tuxedo: 14.5 M transactions in 56 min
(baseline 240 min)
6.25x faster than IBM equivalent
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Integrated solution resulted in a highly
streamlined installation enabling
reduced time & cost to market
Increases the transaction output per
core which significantly reduces both
the TCA and TCO
Linear scalability
Solution Architecture
APPLICATI
ON
Customer Problems
INFRASTRUC
TURE
SOFTWARE
Customer Profile
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Benchmark environments:
JEE: ¼ rack EL + ¼ rack ED
Tuxedo: 1/8 rack EL + 1/8 rack ED
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ENGINEERED
SYSTEMS
Solution
GPP-SP Mass
Payments
Oracle
Database
• RAC
• Advanced
Security Option
• Advanced
Compression
Option
Exadata
Databas
e
Machine
ExaLogic
Machine
GPP-SP High
Value
Payments
Oracle
Middleware
 WebLogic
 Tuxedo
 Oracle Linux
5.5
Exalogic for Oracle Applications
Horizontal - Financials (FIN) Applications
Customer Profile
Customer Problems
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One of the largest Health Benefits
Provider in North America
Fortune 21 Company
Recognized leader in the health and
well-being industry
Nationwide network includes 720,301
physicians and 5,622 hospitals
Results
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System in place providing stability,
scalability, to tackle growth in business
Scaled to handle growth from 2K to 3K
concurrent users, from 2Mto 6M
members
3.3K concurrent users (Peak season)
Peak prescriptions per hour 17K
Solution
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5 Exalogic Systems, SUN M8000
Oracle EBS
SOA suite for integration
OLTP Workload
Supply chain management, global 24x7
operation
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IT complexity - consolidate 3
prescription fulfillment systems onto
single platform
Scalability by 5x in application
performance
High volume high traffic periods with
zero downtime
Benefits
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$10M savings in TCO – EL vs IBMp770
$5M reduced software licenses
Stability: Existing IBM550 experienced
outages
7x increase transactions executed
2x increase orders orchestrated with SOA
Suite
Solution Architecture
Exalogic for Oracle Applications
Vertical – Flexcube Core banking
Customer Profile
Customer Problems
• Ranks among the top five in the
Romanian banking-insurance sector
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• Retail and business banking services
•
• With over 1.7 million customers, 500
branches, 6000 employees nationwide
and $1.7B in annual gross revenues.
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Results
Benefits
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4x better response time over Sun TSeries
All response times < 2 sec vs 1-20 sec
for Sun T-Series
96% of the requests processed in < 1
second
Solution
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Primary: ½ rack EL + full rack ED
Symmetric DR site identically sized
EL linux version
Flexcube UBS 11.4 with WL 10.3.4
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Selected Flexcube UBS Core Banking
as their new Core banking solution
Identified banking card offering as a key
driver for market share growth
Highly scalable, reliable, and performing
hardware platform to support growth is a
key element for success.
Scaling banking card transactions
without degradation of service
Availability increased with Platinium
Support
Providing a higher end-user experience
Increasing market penetration
Solution Architecture
Primary site (today Orange DC)
Rack
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Rack
Core Switching Core Switching
Core Switching Core Switching
Catalyst 6513
1 Gbps
1GbpsE 1GbpsE
Catalyst 6513
1 Gbps
1GbpsE 1GbpsE
Cisco Catalyst 2960 Cisco Catalyst 2960
1 Gbps
1 Gbps
1GbpsE 1GbpsE
Brocade
TurboIron 24x
1GbpsE 1GbpsE
1GbpsE 1GbpsE
1GbpsE 1GbpsE
1GbpsE 1GbpsE
1GbpsE 1GbpsE
Brocade
TurboIron 24x
Brocade
TurboIron 24x
Brocade
TurboIron 24x
SFP+
SFP+
SFP+
SFP+
QSFP
QSFP
QSFP
QSFP
10 m
2x QSFTP-to-4LC
NM2-GW
NM2-GW
IP Switch
Dark Fiber
1 Gbps
16 x 1 GbpsE
SFP+
SFP+
QSFP
QSFP
QSFP
QSFP
10 m
NM2-GW
IP Switch
NM2-GW
8 x 1 GbpsE
Exalogic HR X2-2
Exalogic QR X2-2
FC Switch
Dark Fiber
1 Gbps
FC Switch
IB Switch Fabric
QSFP
IB Switch Fabric
QSFP
QSFP
IB Switch Fabric
QSFP
IB Switch Fabric
1 GbpsE
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SFP+
1 GbpsE
8x DB
Servers
1 GbpsE
14x
Storage
Cells
1 GbpsE
1 GbpsE
Exadata FR X2-2 HP
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HP Data Protector
HP Data Protector
0.5 m
SFP+
2 x QSFP-to-4LC
Rack
Rack
Rack
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Disaster Recovery Site
TBD
1 GbpsE
Storage (backup)
Data Domain DD670
4 x DB
Servers
0.5 m
1 GbpsE
1 GbpsE
Exadata HR X2-2 HP
HP MSL 6030 (Tape)
7x
Storage
Cells
Rack
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Exalogic for Cloud / Consolidation
Extreme Throughput with Consolidation
Customer Profile
Customer Problems
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Largest eCommerce company in Japan
Rapidly growing business - 10x growth
by 2020
800 processors of WebLogic
300 processors of Coherence
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Managing > 100 WebLogic domains
across 370 physical servers today complicated, expensive, inflexible
Unable to change quickly due to
business needs
With 10x growth, current model was
unsustainable
Results
Benefits
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Consolidated 370 physical servers into
two half racks of Exalogic
Simplified operation by using Enterprise
Manager. Easy to provision, Easy to
Analyze.
Oracle helped form special Exalogicspecific ops team
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Solution Architecture
Annual Savings - $160M/yr projected
Increased scalability - 280% better
throughput per core compared with
previous VM based IaaS Platform
More flexibility – Easy to convert from
development env to prod env during
heavy traffic period (a.k.a Super Sale)
Solution
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Two half racks of Exalogic, WebLogic,
Coherence, Enterprise Manager
Already purchased Exadata in FY12
Physical Exalogic deployment
Full Oracle support - A-Team, product
management, services, pre-sales, etc
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Conclusion
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Takeaway
 Oracle offers a complete solution for mission critical applications:
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Custom developed on Oracle Middleware
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Vertical and Horizontal Oracle Applications
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ISV Applications
 This solution provides the required:
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Efficiency
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Scalability
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High Availability
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Performance
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Large Data Management
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Risk Reduction
 To enable customers achieve their business objectives:
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Modernize to support growth, increase the rate of change, and mitigate risk
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Enable tighter SLA (better performance, higher availability, and more scalability) to meet
customer expectations
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Reduce TCO to increase business model sustainability and revive financial performance
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