Oracle
Application Server 10g for enterprise grid computing
Posted: 14 September 2003
Oracle Corporation the world’s largest enterprise software
company, today announced Oracle Application Server 10g, the first
middleware offering that simplifies the management of applications
running in a grid computing environment.
The latest edition of Oracle’s middleware product also offers
enhanced integration and Web services capabilities.
Oracle Application Server 10g will enable customers to more easily
respond to changing business requirements, such as integrating applications
and Web services or increasing computing resources within an enterprise
grid to process payroll at month’s end.
Enterprise grid computing can dramatically reduce the time, labor
and cost of IT management by pooling industry-standard servers,
storage and software.
As a result, companies can use the power of their entire system,
or computing grid, for several projects, rather than continuing
to purchase more capacity for separate projects. As part of Oracle’s
integrated grid software infrastructure (see separate announcements
today unveiling Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Enterprise Manager
10g), Oracle Application Server 10g allows organizations to run
existing applications and Web sites on enterprise grids unchanged.
Manage Applications More Easily on Enterprise Grids
It can be expensive and difficult to add or balance existing computing
capacity and to provision and test middleware, which is server software
that runs Internet applications, Web services and Web sites. The
new workload management features in Oracle Application Server 10g
are policy-based, allowing IT administrators to easily optimize
computing capacity by shifting resources — such as hardware,
storage and software configurations — as needed.
Using Oracle Application Server 10g, administrators can adjust
computing capacity based on threshold metrics, such as server utilization
rates or end-user response times, or in response to scheduled events,
such as payroll processing at the end of the month or closing the
books at the end of a quarter. Companies can reduce system management
costs and end users can benefit from improved system performance.
Oracle Application Server 10g also provides new high availability
capabilities that improve the reliability of applications running
on clusters and enterprise grids. New features include the enhanced
Fast Start Fault Recovery Architecture and Failure Notification
(FaN) that simplify communication between the database and application
server nodes to provide a coordinated failover response when hardware
or other system outages occur.
Customers Can Use IT Assets More Effectively
Traditional IT infrastructures leave organizations with “islands”
of computing resources and software applications that are difficult
to integrate. For example, a company may want to integrate the data
in their human resources and payroll systems and deliver it to employees
via a portal, but the applications and data reside on different
servers and may not be designed to work together.
Oracle Application Server 10g provides advanced integration capabilities
that allow companies to use one product to address application-to-application,
business-to-business and Web services integration. As a result,
organizations can create one company-wide data model that acts as
a single hub of information and reduces the cost of future integration
projects. New integration features in Oracle Application
Server 10g include:
- Easy-to-use declarative tools and pre-built adapters for most
applications and data that eliminates the need for custom setup
and programming;
- Support for business-to-business integration so companies can
securely manage transactions with trading partners and suppliers;
Policy-based management that streamlines trading partner administration
by maintaining agreements, profiles and collaboration details;
- New model-based, event-driven management tools that allow organizations
to more efficiently manage and monitor important business processes;
and,
- Support for a wide range of standards-based integration protocols—such
as EDI, RosettaNet (high-tech manufacturing) and HL/7 (healthcare)
—so organizations no longer need expensive, proprietary
point-to-point integration products that require a separate solution
for each integration project.
Because these integration capabilities are built into Oracle Application
Server 10g, customers and system integrators can also leverage the
product’s clustering, high availability and enterprise grid
computing features in new integration deployments. Solution integrators
can lower the cost of delivering solutions and improve the quality
of service by improving the integration of their customers’
systems.
Use Web Services with Oracle Grid Computing for Business Flexibility
For maximum flexibility in developing and deploying applications,
customers and partners can leverage both the grid computing support
and enhanced Web services functionality in Oracle Application Server
10g. Grid computing streamlines the addition and balancing of computing
capacity, while Web services make it easier to reuse and integrate
applications.
Oracle’s new middleware software provides a straightforward
approach to developing and managing Web services and composite applications,
which are applications that combine functionality from new and legacy
applications. Full support for the latest WS-I Web services standards
and interoperability with .Net Web services enable organizations
to deploy and manage secure, enterprise-class Web services. As a
result, companies can deliver new services to customers, employees
and trading partners quickly.
“Oracle has always strived to keep its customers on the
cutting edge. In 2000, we were the first vendor to deliver an integrated
application platform suite, combining middleware capabilities such
as J2EE, portal, wireless, caching, Web services and business intelligence,”
said Husam Dajani Vice president, , Oracle Middle East. “As
a result, our customers and partners were able to save money and
streamline business processes. By making it easy to take advantage
of grid computing, Oracle Application Server 10g takes middleware
to the next level and enables customers to lower costs and increase
IT responsiveness.”
Availability
Oracle Application Server 10g is scheduled to be available by the
end of this year.
About Oracle Application Server 10g
Oracle Application Server 10g is an integrated, standards-based
software platform that allows organizations of all sizes to be more
responsive to changing business requirements. Oracle Application
Server 10g features full support for J2EE and grid computing, built-in
enterprise portal software, high-speed caching, business intelligence,
rapid application development, application and business integration,
wireless capabilities, Web services and more, all in one package.
Because Oracle Application Server 10g is optimized for enterprise
grid computing, it enables customers to realize better availability
of their IT systems and lower hardware and administration costs.
About Oracle
Oracle is the world’s largest enterprise software company.
For more information see http://www.oracle.com/me.
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