The document outlines Oracle's vision for engineered systems and their benefits over standard platforms. It introduces several pre-configured and optimized engineered systems including Exadata, Exalogic, Oracle Database Appliance, and Big Data Appliance. These systems are designed to provide extreme performance, high availability, and lower costs through hardware and software integration and optimization. The systems can be deployed faster with less risk and maintenance than standard platforms.

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2. Engineered Systems: Oracle's Vision for the Future
Ralf Dossmann
Director Engineered Systems, Public Sector Technology
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The development, release, and timing of any features
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4. Engineered Systems: End of an Era
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5. Current Standard
High Touch, High Cost, Low Return
• In-house platforms:
– Design, Develop
– Test, Document
– Procure, Deploy
– Operate, Maintain
• Inhibits growth
• Misdirects innovation
• Wastes time and resources
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6. Oracle Engineered Systems
Hardware and Software Engineered to Work Together
“We will accelerate the Engineered Systems trend…new engineered systems will
optimally combine Oracle software, Oracle silicon and Oracle hardware to deliver
extreme performance, fault-tolerant reliability and improved ease of use.”
- Larry Ellison, Q1 FY12 Earnings Call, September 20, 2011
Oracle Engineered Systems Value Proposition
• Engineered
• Fastest time to market
• Tested
• Certified • Highest performance
• Deployed Together
• Easiest to manage
• Upgraded
• Lowest TCO
• Managed
• Supported • Maximum innovation: Focus
of Oracle R&D
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7. Oracle Engineered Systems
Meet the Family…
Exadata Exalogic Oracle Exalytics Big Data SPARC
Database Elastic Cloud Database In-Memory Appliance SuperCluster
Machine Appliance Machine T4-4
Oracle Engineered Systems share the following characteristics:
• Expedited time to value • Reduced change management risk
• Easier to manage and upgrade • One-stop support
• Lower cost of ownership • Extreme performance
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8. How Customers Leverage Oracle Engineered Systems
“PHH Corporation lays a foundation for shared
services with Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and
Oracle Exadata Database Machine.”
“Sogeti USA LLC Improves Performance and
Productivity of Critical Business Systems”
“TIMWE Ensures Competitive Edge with
Real-Time Analysis of Marketing Campaigns”
“Merck achieves fivefold performance for
Critical Product Research Platform”
“SquareTwo Financial expects to reduce
operating costs by 60% and bring new
products to market more quickly.””
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9. Exadata Database Machine
A complete system for the database and storage tier
Database Grid
Intel-based database servers
Oracle Linux or Solaris 11
Oracle Database 11g
10 Gig Ethernet (to data center)
Storage Grid
Intel-based storage servers
Up to 336 terabytes raw disk
5.3 terabytes Flash storage
Exadata Storage Server Software
InfiniBand Network
Internal connectivity ( 40 Gb/sec )
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10. Superior Product Capabilities: Exadata
Hardware + Software Optimized to Work Together
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11. Oracle Exalogic X2-2
A complete system for the application tier
Compute Nodes (Servers)
• Up to: 30 x86 compute nodes
X2-2 Full Rack
• Up to: 360 Xeon cores (2.93 GHz) Configuration
• Up to: 2.8 TB DRAM, 960 GB SSD
InfiniBand I/O Fabric and 10GbE
• 40 Gb/sec links
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity to datacenter
Integrated Storage
• Shared storage for applications
• Clustered for HA
• 40 TB SAS disk
• 4 TB read cache,72 GB write cache EL X2-2
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12. Exalogic vs. Alternatives
Building a system that can compare with Exalogic is hard
Applications
and Middleware
Integrated OS Layer OS, Kernel, Patch Level?
Different
Tuned Compute and
CPU, RAM, Flash, Blade, Rack?
Virtualization Layer Every
Optimized
I/O Layer Ethernet, InfiniBand, FC?
Time
Identical Storage
NAS, SAN, SSD, HDD?
Layer
1 Engineered System 160+ separate parts
Unpack to production in hours Months from start to production
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13. Exalogic - Scale on Demand
Start small and grow
• Designed for zero-
downtime upgrades
8 Compute 16 Compute 30 Compute
Nodes Nodes Nodes
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14. Superior Product Capabilities: Exalogic
Example: Exabus
Standard Hardware I/O Exabus
Application Application Application Application
Application Buffer Application Buffer
Copy TCP IP Transport
Kernel
20% Buffer Copies Zero Buffer Copy
40% Transport Processing Direct Memory Access
40 % Kernel Context Switches Kernel Bypass
4X Throughput, 6X Lower Latency
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15. Active GridLink for Oracle RAC
960 Gigabits/second
(Maximum: 24x InfiniBand QDR)
Exalogic Exadata
• Exclusive: direct InfiniBand integration!
• Extreme performance, reliability, security
• Simple to deploy and manage
Up to
3X
OLTP Performance
Active GridLink for RAC
• Resource-aware load balancing
• Instantaneous connection failover
• Transaction affinity to RAC nodes
• SQLnet optimized for InfiniBand SDP
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16. Benefit #1: Fast Time-To-Market
Exalogic Setup in Ten Hours
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17. Benefit #2: Better Performance (Fusion Middleware)
Unmatched Throughput, Responsiveness and Efficiency
520ms 240,000
1.1ms
7X 9X 10X 17,340 tps
3X
5,640 tps
0.16ms 58ms 24,000
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18. Benefit #2: Better Performance (Oracle Applications)
on Exadata and Exalogic
E-Business Suite E-Business Suite PeopleSoft Siebel UCM
Self Service and HR
Order to Cash Self Service HRMS, FIN Customer Hub
and Procurement
3x better Response Time 3x better Response Time 8x better Response Time
8x better Response Time
2x better Scalability 5x better Scalability 4x better Scalability
2x better Scalability
200 ms
11.94 s
2.23 s 8X 1.18 s
8X
3X
0.74 s 0.39 s
1.42 s 25 ms
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19. Benefit #2: Better Performance (Oracle Applications)
on Exadata and Exalogic
JD Edwards Utilities Communications ATG Web Commerce
Order Management Meter Data Management Billing Revenue Management Commerce Reference Store
3x better Response Time 2x better Response Time 2x better Response Time 3x better Response Time
2x better Scalability 7x better Scalability 2x better Scalability 3x better Scalability
10
4000
20 million
0.51 s
3X 2027
3.1
0.17 s
2.75 million
Standard hardware Exalogic and Exadata 19

20. Case Study: E-Business Suite on Exalogic / Exadata
Impressive Performance
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21. Case Study: E-Business Suite on Exalogic / Exadata
Impressive Business Results
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22. Benefit #3: Reduced TCO
Exalogic and Exadata
Maintain Deploy
Remote Management Enterprise Provisioning of Firmware,
Manager
- Telemetry OS, Middleware,
Phone Home Grid Database and
Control
- Proactive Support Applications
My Oracle Support Integration Clone and Scale-out
OpsCenter
For FMW and Databases
Manage Test
End-to-End Diagnostics Functional Testing
- Service Levels Monitor Load Testing
- Root Cause
Application-to-Disk Test Management
Configuration Mgmt Exalogic and Exadata Monitoring Integration
- Change Tracking
- System, Middleware, Database, Applications,
Database Diagnostics
Patch Automation Compute Nodes, Switch, Storage Database Back-up and Recovery
- Firmware, OS
Energy Utilization and Impact
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23. Typical Platform TCO Breakdown
Standardization and Consolidation
• Server, storage, network,
application administration
• Facilities management
• 3rd party consulting and services
• In-house R&D
• Test/QA
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24. Patches
Single File Patches
• Single file download containing all Exalogic patches
– Entire platform from firmware to OS across entire system
– Middleware and application stack patches validated for Exalogic
• All patches (PSU, one-offs) validated against entire
system and certified by Oracle to work end-to-end
– Apply and go
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25. Summary: Engineered System Benefits
• Faster Time-To-Market, Lower Risk
– Set up in days, not months
• Unmatched Performance
– At least 2x improvement in response times
– At least 2x increase in throughput
• Reduced TCO
– At least 50% lower TCO
• Superior Product Capabilities (“Special Sauce”)
– Exabus, database-aware storage, columnar compression
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26. Q&A
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