The FINANCIAL — Oracle announced Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X3-2, the second hardware generation of the company's flagship engineered system for running business applications.
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is hardware and software engineered together to provide extreme performance, reliability and scalability for Java, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Applications, Re-hosted CICS/IMS TP and other business applications, while delivering lower TCO, reduced risk, higher user productivity and one-stop support.
Incorporating the fastest and most modern CPUs, flash memory and network fabric technologies, the new Oracle Exalogic X3-2 builds on the recent release of Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software 2.0 to provide customers with extreme performance for the most highly mission-critical, large scale private cloud deployments at the infrastructure-as-a-service layer.
Oracle Exalogic X3-2 supports up to a 60x increase in application deployment density through the combination of hardware-assisted Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), server virtualization and increased physical RAM.
By fully leveraging the latest Intel Core Xeon processors, Oracle Exalogic X3-2 delivers 3.5x better application performance than the original Oracle Exalogic X2-2 and incorporates 33 percent more CPU cores per configuration, increasing from 360 to 480 in an Oracle Exalogic Full Rack.
Oracle Exalogic X3-2 supports up to 95% reduction in application deployment time by providing full support for server, network and storage virtualization, along with IaaS management, which allows rapid deployment of applications using ready-to-deploy templates.
Full support for Oracle Exalogic's new Trusted Partitions licensing model allows for flexible licensing of Oracle software. In addition, there is no price increase for Oracle Exalogic X3-2, so customers can get more hardware performance for the same cost.
Oracle Exalogic X3-2 incorporates Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software 2.0, and comes with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c management system right inside the box, for “single pane of glass” management, from application to disk.
The new Oracle Exalogic X3-2 systems are fully compatible with Oracle Exalogic X2-2 systems. Existing Oracle Exalogic X2-2 systems can also be upgraded with Oracle Exalogic X3-2 compute nodes.
Customers in 43 countries across 22 industries have already adopted Oracle Exalogic.
Oracle Exalogic allows customers and partners to reduce cost and complexity, eliminate business risk and protect and maximize return on their existing and future Oracle software investments.
Oracle Exalogic is the logical choice for running Oracle Applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle's Siebel CRM, Oracle's PeopleSoft, Oracle's JD Edwards, Oracle ATG Web Commerce and Oracle's industry specific business applications. As Oracle said, these applications have been optimized, tested, benchmarked and certified on Oracle Exalogic for extreme performance.
Oracle Exalogic accelerates the functionality of the standards-based Oracle Fusion Middleware product portfolio, including the market-leading Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Coherence, Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Tuxedo products.
Over 300 ISVs are certified on Oracle Exalogic through the Oracle Exastack Program, which enables ISVs and other qualifying members of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) to optimize their applications to run even faster and more reliably on Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud.
ISVs are seeing dramatic out-of-the-box performance improvement for virtually every standard Oracle Linux or Oracle Solaris application.
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