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Oracle Engineered Systems: why, how, where is the

value

Giuseppe Russo Chief Technologist, Oracle Systems

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The world before Henry Ford

• Every car was custom built.

• In the best case, it came in 3 bits:

• Chassis

• Engine/Drivetrain

• Bodywork: Doors, seats, windscreen..

• Every car was different

• No standardisation of

• Pedal locations

• Gear shift controls

• Steering

• Wheel widths and sizes

Source: wikipedia

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The world after Henry Ford

• “You can have any color as long as it is black”

• Reduced procurement cost.

• STANDARDISATION

• Pedals, steering wheel,

• gearstick

• Wheels and tyres.

• Most importantly: Standardisation reduced running costs.

• Lower cost of components (mass produced)

• Lower cost of repair (standard components)

• But, yes, you can still build/buy a custom car if that’s what you really want.

Source: wikipedia

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How the Vendors worked together

Designed for Lowest Common

Denominator H/W

Maximise Software Features

Didn’t leverage any unique H/W features

Identical deployment on any H/W Vendor

Competed with the other S/W vendors

Designed to run any Software

Maximise Hardware Features

Didn’t leverage any unique S/W features

Identical architectures for any S/W

Vendor

Competed with the other H/W vendors

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• Open and standards-based

• Optimized, integrated and extensible

• Better performance, reliability, security

• Shorter deployment times

• Easier to manage and upgrade

• Lower cost of ownership

• Reduced change management risk

• Integrated support

The Sun acquisition changed the game Oracle has a Complete, Open, Integrated Systems

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Deploying IT in the traditional way Typical Customer TCO (from Gartner/Credit Suisse)

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How can IT departments reduce costs?

• Standardize on a particular hardware

and software stack

• reduces the myriad configurations

possible for

– hardware, operating system, software

version, patches

• reducing the complexity of support

and maintenance for the IT staff

Credit: Nutdanai Apikhomboonwaroot

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Available choices to IT departments

• Core Components – Servers, storage, networking, operating systems and

virtualization, databases and middleware, and

enterprise management tools

– best for customers that have a unique IT requirement

and a high level of expertise in system design

• Validated Configurations – Self-service configurations with basic functionality

testing and deployment guidance

– useful for expert IT departments and system

integrators that need to do customization of systems

Credit: Idea GO

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Available choices to IT departments

• Optimized Configurations – Pre-defined configurations including hardware and software optimized and tested

to work together with documented deployment best practices

– for companies that want to implement a system with greater flexibility of

configuration and software/hardware combinations to adjust the system to fit

within their existing IT environment

• Engineered Systems – Purpose-built hardware and software sold and supported as a single system

– include a full range of specialized services to simplify deployment, maintenance,

and support

– best for companies that want the highest system performance, rapid deployment,

reliability, and security, with the lowest total cost of ownership

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Trade-off between cost and standardization

Best-of-Breed System Elements

Optimized Solutions

Engineered Systems

Standardization

Cost S

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Validated Configuration

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Moving towards Engineered Systems

• Dedicated silos

are inefficient

• Sized for peak

load

• Difficult to Scale

• Expensive to

Manage

• Unique to

support

Oracle’s 20 years of evolution

• Lower computing

costs (Sparc/x86)

• Pay as you grow

• Re-distribute

resources as

needed

• Highly available

• Incrementally

scalable

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Oracle Engineered Systems

• Complete, integrated

software and hardware

• Extreme performance

• Reduced risk

• Installation

• Maintenance

• Upgrades

• Lowest TCO

Datacenter Transformation Through Innovation

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Donald Feinberg

VP Distinguished Analyst, Gartner

“We recently came out with a strategic planning assumption that said,

that by 2014 roughly, more than 50% of the data warehouse

infrastructures in the world will contain an ‘appliance’ (vertically

integrated compute system).

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Engineering Out Complexity The Unique Oracle Advantage

Management

Tools EMC/NetApp

Management

Tools Brocade

Management

Tools HP

Management

Tools VMware

Management

Tools Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Management

Tools Oracle

Custom Integrated

Applications

Middleware / Database

OS / Virtualization

Server

Storage Network

Storage

Oracle's Engineered Stack

Management Tools

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Support

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One Engineering Team Best Performance. Best Value. Cloud Built-In.

Oracle Engineered Systems

Compute & Storage Building Blocks

Software

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10x the Performance. 10x the Value.

Oracle Engineered Systems

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Engineered Systems & Appliances

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Purpose Built General Purpose

Exalogic Exadata SPARC

SuperCluster Big Data

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