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Just a little over a year ago Oracle manufactured the first official Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X2-2 box. There is a lot of hype around Exalogic and in this post I will try to separate that hype from reality and answer the questions about Oracle Exalogic.

1. What exactly is Oracle Exalogic?
2. Is Oracle Exalogic a true appliance?
3. How is Exalogic different from any other x86 server hardware sold by HP, Dell, IBM and others?
4. Exalogic is a lot of hardware – can it be virtualized?
5. Exalogic is called “Elastic Cloud” by Oracle. What makes it cloud enabled?
6. Is Oracle really first to market with the hardware and software engineered system?
7. How many customers are using Exalogic today in production?
8. How can Oracle claim 2-3X improvement in performance with Exalogic over traditional hardware?
9. Is it true that Oracle Exalogic is “Open and Standards Based”, while IBM’s 795 server is proprietary?
10. What kind of a solution would you recommend to customers who want to adopt cloud technology today?
11. Summary – comparison of IBM System z, Power7 System and Oracle Exalogic

Read full article here: Oracle Exalogic – the emperor has no clothes!.

Posted on March 9, 2012 at 12:41 pm in Oracle   |  RSS feed |   Respond   |   Trackback URL