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Cisco Collaboration With Oracle Helps Scale and Accelerate Oracle Applications
Cisco Technology Helps Enhance Oracle Deployments for Higher Performance and Productivity
| Source: Cisco Systems, Inc.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - November 12, 2007) - Oracle OpenWorld -- Cisco® (NASDAQ : CSCO ) today announced that it has been collaborating with Oracle in the
development and validation of Reliable Datagram Sockets, an acceleration
protocol to further scale Oracle® Real Application Clusters (RAC) 11g,
using InfiniBand. Cisco has also worked closely with Oracle in testing and
validating designs for integrating Cisco application delivery and storage
networking technologies with the Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle
Applications 11i product families. These collaborative efforts support
Data Center 3.0, Cisco's strategy to help its customers develop next
generation data centers that optimize application performance, service
levels, efficiency and collaboration.
Oracle Real Application Clusters supports the deployment of a single
database across a cluster of servers to provide fault tolerance, high
performance, and scalability. Implemented as an OpenFabrics upper-layer
protocol, the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol improves the
scalability of Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g deployments using
industry-standard servers, increases performance, and provides for modular
growth and flexibility, while helping to reduce both capital and operating
costs. Combining Cisco InfiniBand server fabric switches with the RDS
interconnect protocol helps successfully accelerate and scale Oracle Real
Application Clusters 11g to 16 industry-standard servers and beyond. This
solution also minimizes risk for Oracle customers by providing
technologies that are optimized to work together. RDS is packaged with the
industry standard OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) Linux drivers
for InfiniBand.
"For more than 20 years, Oracle and Cisco have been helping global
enterprise customers automate business processes and deploy Internet-based
networks," said Judson Althoff, vice president, Worldwide Platform and
Distribution Alliances at Oracle. "As one of our Global Platform Partners,
Cisco brings valuable networking expertise to our collaborative efforts in
several strategic technology areas and joint solutions to support our
customers' current needs and future requirements."
Cisco Data Center Solutions for Oracle Deployments
As enterprise application users demand higher performance and productivity,
Cisco and Oracle have collaborated to meet these demands in several
specific data center technology areas. Cisco Wide Area Application
Services (WAAS) products for WAN optimization, the Cisco Application
Control Engine (ACE) for application load-balancing, and the Cisco MDS 9000
series of storage networking products have all been recently tested and
validated for deployment across multiple Oracle product families. For
example, Cisco ACE and WAAS products working together have been documented
to increase performance for Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle
Applications 11i when accessed by remote users across a wide area network.
Additionally, Cisco ACE products have enabled more scalability and
availability for Oracle applications, while reducing server and network
resource requirements. Design guides for these joint solutions have been
developed to support easier deployment and minimize risk. For more
information please visit www.cisco.com/go/oracle.
Oracle and Cisco WebEx
In addition, Oracle and Cisco WebEx recently announced that they will offer
Oracle's Siebel CRM On Demand Service, an award-winning customer
relationship management (CRM) application service, through the WebEx
Connect application ecosystem. Cisco WebEx's on-demand collaboration
expertise, combined with Oracle's enterprise-class Siebel CRM On Demand
Service, creates a collaborative customer experience designed to accelerate
sales cycles at businesses of any size. A WebEx Connect user can quickly
build a sales mashup with WebEx Sales Center, Siebel CRM On Demand, a
social networking site, and an e-mail and calendaring client. These
business mashups improve productivity by integrating with WebEx Connect's
unified collaboration and communications capabilities to provide contextual
collaboration within a business process.
Cisco at Oracle OpenWorld
Attendees at Oracle OpenWorld are invited to attend two Cisco presentations
to learn how Cisco data center solutions for Oracle Applications optimize
network performance to enhance application availability and security, while
helping to reduce costs. The presentations are "Oracle Real Application
Clusters (RAC) 11g with Cisco Server Fabric Switches Using InfiniBand
Technology" on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 12:15pm-1:15pm, at Moscone West 3024 L3,
and "Data Center Network Architecture for Available, Fast, Secure, and
Manageable Oracle Applications Deployments" on Thursday, Nov. 15,
8:30am-9:30am, at Marriott Golden Gate C2. Cisco is also participating on
panel sessions throughout the conference. Attendees are also invited to
attend the Cisco TelePresence kiosk at the Inside Innovation Interaction
Zone and the WebEx kiosk at the CRM On Demand Pavilion.
Data Center 3.0
The Cisco vision for Data Center 3.0 entails the real-time, dynamic
orchestration of infrastructure services from shared pools of virtualized
server, storage and network resources, while optimizing application service
levels, efficiency and collaboration. Cisco and its partners are helping
organizations to design and build virtualized, self-defending and efficient
data center infrastructure for delivering superior application performance
and user experience.
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