Oracle develops complete solutions
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Oracle is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business
software and hardware systems company, which develops solutions for
small and large enterprises to help run their operations. As a complete
systems provider, Oracle offers the maximum level of integration of
hardware and software components, delivering the best value in the
industry to our customers. Ahsen Javed is the Managing Director for
Pakistan and South Asia Growth Economies (West) at Oracle Corporation.
In his role, Javed is responsible for overseeing Pakistan as well as
Oracle's South Asia Growth Economies (SAGE) West region covering
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
Excerpts of the interview.
Q. Oracle has almost all the solutions ranging from business
applications, to technology infrastructure including hardware, network
and storage? How well-integrated are these solutions are and how do they
translate to customer related benefits?
Oracle's hardware and software products are designed and tested as an
integrated, end-to-end stack in order to provide users with a complete,
comprehensive solution, offering optimum functionality, top performance
and reduced complexity.
Only Oracle performs full stack testing of all components of the
Optimized Solution using real world workload stress tests with fault
injection, performance, scalability and interoperability testing to
minimize downtime and to protect data assets to keep it accessible for
business continuity and operations.
Oracle Optimized Solutions are up to 75% faster to deploy with low
total cost of ownership and have up to 4x faster transactional
throughput time to allow users to quickly access, process and analyze
data and information so that businesses can quickly respond to changing
market and customer demands.
Q. 'All in one box solutions' are gaining popularity among IT
executives due to easy management and minimum installation time. What
are your views on this?
Single box solutions have become essential for organizations now as
they look for provision of complete solutions covering all aspects from
a single IT vendor saving time to hire and communicate with different
vendors of different services.
As a single solution provider, Oracle reduces deployment and
interoperability risk.
Oracle has two of such solutions which are getting immensely popular
among the customers are Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle Exadata
Database Machine.
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is the world's first and only
integrated cloud machine - hardware and software engineered together to
provide a "cloud in a box". Exalogic is designed to revolutionize data
center consolidation, enabling enterprises to bring together tens,
hundreds, or even thousands of disparate, mission-critical,
performance-sensitive workloads with maximum reliability, availability,
and security. Oracle Exalogic's unique high-bandwidth, low-latency
interconnect fabric means that complex, distributed applications can run
with a responsiveness simply not achievable with typical servers used in
data centers today. By consolidating applications to Oracle Exalogic
Elastic Cloud, enterprises can accelerate the performance of Java
applications by as much as 14x, improve reliability and scalability
beyond even the most mission-critical requirements and reduce deployment
effort by up to 95% while reducing costs by as much as 60%.
Oracle Exadata Database Machine, the world's fastest, secure and
fault-tolerant Database Machine for both Data Warehousing and Online
Transaction Processing, is a complete grid, or private cloud which
delivers extreme performance and scalability enabling enterprises to
make critical business decisions. The only OLTP machine in the world
costs significantly less than competitors and is considerably faster
than similar products available in the market - enabling enterprises to
store more than ten-times the amount of data and search data more than
ten-times faster without making any changes to applications.
Q. Gartner predicted that by 2020 the digital data will be
around 35,000 exabytes which is 44 times more than the data in 2009.
What are your product offerings to address the ever-increasing data
storage needs of large organizations?
It is true that data is increasing with rapid rates and tackling the
challenge of huge data storage in coming years will be an uphill task.
Oracle storage strategy is to ensure that Oracle software runs faster
and more efficiently on Oracle storage. Integrated automatic
provisioning and management provides storage performance on demand, and
streamlines end-to-end data movement and protection.`
Oracle's complete storage product portfolio enables enterprise data
centers to address all of their most critical storage requirements. The
product portfolio includes:
* Oracle Exadata Storage, engineered for the Oracle Database,
provides extreme performance for OLTP, data warehousing and database
consolidation with industry leading optimizations including Query
offload, Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression, Exadata Smart Flash Cache,
IO Resource Manager, and InfiniBand interconnect.
* Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance, the premier product for Network
Attached Storage (NAS) File I/O, offers high-performance, efficient NAS
consolidation for Oracle software, test and development and data
protection.
* Pillar Axiom storage, the most recent addition to the Oracle
storage portfolio, will be the premier Oracle product for Storage Area
Network (SAN) Block I/O. It delivers enterprise SAN consolidation with
exceptional performance/capacity scaling, industry-leading efficiency
and best-in-class, end-to-end quality of service.
* Oracle StorageTek Tape, engineered for less-frequently accessed
archives and data protection, is highly scalable, reliable and available
for consolidating data for archive and data protection.
Q. What is Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database? How
does it benefit the organization in their data processing needs?
Optimized database systems are critical to the success of businesses
and government entities large and small. These systems must be highly
available and downtime must be minimized while cost-effectively
optimizing performance and employee productivity.
The union of Oracle and Sun has created one innovative company
responsible for all the hardware and software components of a highly
available, highly integrated, optimized database system. Oracle provides
the technology to keep the database system running despite hardware and
software errors, and provides a single source for ongoing services and
support.
Only Oracle performs full stack testing of all components of the
Optimized Solution using real world workload stress tests with fault
injection, performance, scalability and interoperability testing to
minimize downtime and to protect data assets to keep it accessible for
business continuity and operations.
Oracle Optimized Solution delivers up to 75% operational and
acquisition cost savings over the competition allowing customers to
maximize technology investments.
Oracle Optimized Solutions are up to 75% faster to deploy and have up
to 4x faster transactional throughput time to allow users to quickly
access, process and analyze data and information so that businesses can
quickly respond to changing market and customer demands.
Q. Many top organizations are moving towards cloud computing
to enable their stakeholders' access key real-time information from any
location. How is Oracle helping such organizations?
Cloud Computing is a rapid and extensive solution of business at
mainstream, medium and small sized corporations as it enables users to
connect with the required IT environment without investing a huge amount
of money on the deployment of infrastructure.
The popularity of ready on demand access to IT environment is vital
for entrepreneurs without procuring expensive equipment and deployment
of physical network.
Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud are
the ideal platforms for consolidating database applications onto private
clouds, and lowering hardware and administrative costs.
These are pre-configured and pre-optimized packages of hardware and
software engineered to work together and easy to scale in a private
cloud environment.
In addition to the technical benefits, customers adopt Oracle Exadata
Database Machine and Exalogic Elastic Cloud to mitigate deployment
risks.
The Oracle Exalogic's extreme performance, massive scale, and
hardware-based application isolation make it the ideal platform for
consolidating many existing applications on a single platform.
Applications can be migrated unchanged and then run with higher
performance and reliability at a cost that can be as much as 60 percent
lower than for traditional environments.
Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud
deliver superior performance, maximum availability and ironclad security
capabilities which are integrated and managed together with the complete
Oracle stack to accelerate and simplify complex IT deployments, and
enable the deployment of highly scalable cloud services.
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