Oracle
Database 10g designed to power enterprise grids
Posted: 14 September 2003
New management, storage and cluster automation provides
immediate efficiencies and clear roadmap to enterprise grid computing
Oracle Corporation the world’s largest enterprise software
company, launched Oracle Database 10g, new software designed to
help customers and partners achieve the highest levels of efficiency
from their Information Technology (IT) investments, including hardware,
software and, most importantly, labor.
Oracle Database 10g relieves IT professionals from time-consuming,
repetitive administrative work enabling them to focus more on solving
business problems. Oracle also announced Oracle Application Server
10g and Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g . Together, they comprise
Oracle Grid Computing, the first integrated grid infrastructure
software introduced to the market.
“While IT systems have become more strategic and integral
to the core business, they also have become more complex, and more
difficult and costly to manage,” said Carl Olofson, program
director for information and data management software research at
IDC. “Oracle Database 10g represents a great stride forward,
introducing new self-managing features that help automate statistics
collection, instance tuning, memory tuning, and more. Helping customers
automate daily, routine administrative tasks greatly reduces the
management burden, and that can translate into substantial cost
savings and more effective database administration.”
Traditional IT infrastructures leave organizations with “islands”
of computing resources and software that are difficult to integrate
and manage. Systems were designed to handle peak loads that might
occur once per quarter or per year. As a result, IT infrastructures
often became very inefficient. Oracle Grid Computing addresses this
business challenge by helping customers reduce the time, labor and
cost of IT operations by pooling industry standard servers and storage
into an adaptable infrastructure that can meet changing business
demands.
Oracle Grid Computing builds on 10 years of grid technology development
in academia and extends it to enterprise customers. Oracle grids
run real packaged applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite,
and other ISV applications from vendors such as PeopleSoft and SAP.
Because enterprise grid computing requires simplified storage management,
transparent server clustering, and highly automated software, Oracle
Grid Computing takes customers and partners a giant step toward
making utility computing a reality.
Automatic Management and Database Control
Enterprise grid computing will help customers quickly and inexpensively
build large-scale computing capacity from inexpensive, standardized
components such as clusters of server blades and rack-mounted storage.
New levels of management automation are required to make this feasible.
To meet these new requirements, Oracle Database 10g introduces advanced
self-management capabilities and a new Web-based console called
Database Control.
Based on Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g, Database Control provides
a graphical diagnostic window into the database as it operates.
Administrators can proactively monitor the database and quickly
receive alerts and advice to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
Database Control can even identify poorly written application code,
suggest better code and automatically tune the database to provide
optimal performance.
In addition, the self-management capabilities of Oracle Database
10g eliminate complex, repetitive tasks such as performance diagnostics,
application tuning and memory management. The new software includes
a self-diagnostic engine that automatically identifies any performance
or operational problems and recommends corrective action. These
capabilities provide immediate relief for IT staff as well as long
term benefits for building enterprise grids.
Database Clustering Made Easy
At the heart of Oracle Grid Computing is its breakthrough database
clustering technology, Oracle Real Application Clusters. With more
than 550 customers in 44 countries in production, Oracle Real Application
Clusters is the culmination of over 10 years of software development,
and remains the only clustered database software that can run packaged
applications unchanged as additional servers and storage are added
to the cluster.
With the new Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g, deploying and
managing database clusters as an enterprise grid is made far easier
with the introduction of integrated clusterware. Integrated clusterware
is a set of common clustering services built into Oracle Database
10g to simplify the creation and operation of database clusters.
In the past, running Oracle Real Application Clusters on different
platforms – UNIX, Linux, Windows – required detailed
and technical knowledge of cluster operations for each platform.
Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g now includes all the clustering
software needed to easily install, configure and run clusters predictably
and efficiently on all supported platforms.
Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g also introduces new cluster
workload management software designed to shift computing capacity
throughout the clustered database as business needs change. This
new software will help customers run larger clusters of low-cost
servers, such as server blades, to create enterprise grids.
Integrated Storage Management Eliminates Constant Storage Tuning
Oracle Database 10g also introduces Automatic Storage Management
(ASM), new software designed to greatly simplify storage configuration
and management for the database. ASM hides the underlying complexity
of how the database deals with data files and storage subsystems.
It also automatically distributes the storage workload to get the
best possible system performance. ASM eliminates the need to constantly
monitor storage systems for “hot spots” or performance
bottlenecks that often slow down data processing.
ASM also eliminates the need for costly third-party volume management
and file system software by completely automating database file
and data storage. With ASM, customers can dramatically reduce data
center complexity and system management costs. Oracle has worked
with several industry storage leaders such as EMC, Hitachi, HP,
Network Appliance and Xiotech to enable ASM to work seamlessly with
their network attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN)
offerings (see related press release).
“Grid computing represents a significant new technology direction
for the IT industry and Oracle will play a major role in how information
and applications are delivered in this environment,” said
Husam Dajani Vice President , Oracle Middle East. “Oracle
Database 10g is a major milestone in realizing this grid vision
while providing many immediate benefits to Oracle customers such
as improved performance and lower management costs.”
About Oracle Database 10g
Oracle Database 10g is designed to be effectively deployed on everything
from small servers to the biggest SMP servers and from clusters
to enterprise grids. It features automated tuning and management
capabilities that make it easy and cost effective to operate. Its
unique ability to natively manage all your data from traditional
business information to OLAP, to XML documents, to spatial/location
information make it the ideal choice to power Online Transaction
Processing, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, and Content
Management applications.
About Oracle
Oracle is the world’s largest enterprise software company.
For more information see http://www.oracle.com/me.
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