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The Next Grid Thing: Oracle Pioneers Application Grid Computing
Long a pioneer in grid computing technologies such as Oracle Database Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle is now introducing "application grid" computing, bringing a new level of scalability, efficiency, and quality of service to the application layer.
An application grid is a layer of infrastructure underneath applications that pools and provisions the resource components on which those applications run.
Because it's rare that all applications hit peak demand at the same time, an application grid dynamically shifts resources in favor of the applications with the highest demand at any given time—dramatically improving service levels with a smaller set of underlying physical resources.
"Traditionally, an application is resourced with its own individual stack, which is both wasteful and limiting,” explains Ruma Sanyal, director of product marketing. “It’s wasteful in that each application must be provisioned with capacity for its worst case.”
"By introducing an in-memory data grid, a single application can draw on the fast memory of multiple machines, providing virtually unlimited computing power.”
Industry-Leading Technology
To make application grid computing possible, Oracle brings together key industry-leading technologies: Oracle WebLogic Server for the Java domain, Oracle Tuxedo for the C/C++/COBOL domain, Oracle Coherence in-memory data grid, Oracle JRockit Java runtime solutions, and Oracle Enterprise Manager with WebLogic Operations Control for automated management. Learn more in the Oracle Information InDepth interview with Ruma Sanya.
Scalability, Efficiency, Quality of Service
As with Oracle's other grid computing products, the application grid solution maximizes the value and power of existing computing resources. It also provides scalability by enabling you to add capacity incrementally and on demand as business and computing demands grow. No need to tear down and start over.
At the same time, the application grid boosts quality of service—even as it lowers costs.
"The grid monitors application performance dynamically, in real time, and will automatically provision the additional computing resources," says Sanyal. “Just as important, the management layer provides predictive alerts, historical data, and root cause analysis for all aspects of the application.”
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