Oracle has released what it calls the world's first integrated middleware machine, the Exalogic Elastic Cloud, at OpenWorld 2010, in San Francisco, on Sunday.
According to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, the machine is an integrated hardware and software system engineered, tested, and tuned by Oracle to run Java and non-Java applications with extreme performance.
“Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is a complete system of servers, network, storage, VM, operating system and middleware, all engineered to work together,” added Ellison. “This delivers stunning results, including the fastest Java performance, elastic capacity on demand and a completely fault tolerant system.
“The machine provides a complete cloud application infrastructure, consolidating the widest possible range of Java and non-Java application types and workloads and meeting the most demanding service-level requirements,” he said.
He describes the machine as a “cloud in a box”, and says hardware and software work together to run all a user's applications. “The Exalogic includes 30 servers in the box, plus networking, plus storage. It includes virtual machines and all the middleware needed to develop and run a user's applications.”
There are 360 cores in the one box, with servers interconnected to each other and the storage device. Software includes virtual machines and two guest operating systems, Solaris and Linux.
He says the Exalogic Elastic Cloud builds on the success of the company's Exadata Database Machine. “It combines cutting-edge 64-bit x86 processors, an InfiniBand-based I/O fabric and solid-state storage with the market-leading Oracle WebLogic Server, other enterprise Java Oracle middleware products and a choice of Oracle Solaris or Oracle Linux operating system software.
“The software has been tuned to exploit the I/O fabric in the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud machine in order to deliver performance results 10 times better than a standard application server configuration.”
Ellison says it was engineered for large-scale, mission-critical deployments, and provides the foundation for enterprise-class multi-tenancy or cloud applications. It can support thousands of applications with differing security, reliability, and performance requirements - making it an ideal platform for enterprise-wide data centre consolidation.
The machine offers unmatched performance and reliability for Java applications, he says. “In Oracle's internal testing, one rack of Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud demonstrated 12 times improvement for Internet applications, to over one million HTTP requests per second, and 4.5 times improvement for Java messaging applications, to over 1.8 million messages per second.”
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