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Oracle Exadata Optimized

Oracle Exadata Optimized applications run faster and more reliably – providing increased performance to their end users.

Customers can be confident when choosing an OPN member’s Oracle Exadata Optimized application, knowing it has been tuned on an Oracle Exadata Database Machine with a goal of delivering the optimum speed, scalability and reliability.

Oracle Exadata Optimized provides OPN members with:

Access to Oracle Exastack Experts

• Engage Oracle technical resources and access dedicated lab environments to test and tune software applications on an Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Credibility

• Achieving Oracle Exadata Optimized shows that an OPN member’s application has met the OPN member’s proof of value goals for performance and scalability on an Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Competitive differentiation

• Enables customers to readily identify OPN member's applications that have been tested and tuned for optimum performance on an Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
• Provides OPN members the opportunity to display the Oracle Exadata Optimized logo in their respective collateral and web sites to show that they have tested and tuned their application for optimum performance on an Oracle Exadata Database Machine. 

Learn more about Oracle Exadata Database Machine Optimized benefits and criteria

STEP 1: Join OPN
STEP 2: Join Oracle Exadata Knowledge Zone
STEP 3: Review Eligibility Criteria
STEP 4: Apply Now (PRM Administrator)

Download Oracle Exadata Optimized Logo: Oracle Exadata Optimized

Note: Must be a valid Oracle Exadata Optimized partner to access logo

• Logo Usage Guidelines
• Review Press Release Guidelines
• Oracle Exadata Optimized/Oracle Exalogic Optimized/Oracle SPARC SuperCluster Optimized – press release template (DOC)

Oracle Exastack Optimized Labs

• Oracle Exastack Optimized Labs provide qualifying OPN members with direct access to Oracle technical resources and Oracle Exastack Lab environments for tuning and optimization of their application on Oracle Exadata Database Machine and/or Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. 

Oracle Exadata Ready

OPN members that have achieved Oracle Exadata Ready may display the Oracle Exadata Ready logo to show that they have tested their applications, and their applications run on an Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

STEP 1: Join Oracle Exadata Knowledge Zone
STEP 2: Review Eligibility Criteria
STEP 3: Apply Now (PRM Administrator)

Download Oracle Exadata Ready Logo: Oracle Exadata Ready

Note: Must be a valid Oracle Exadata Ready partner to access logo

• Logo Usage Guidelines
• Oracle Exadata Ready/Oracle Exalogic Ready/Oracle SPARC SuperCluster Ready – press release template (DOC)
• Oracle Exadata Ready/Oracle Exalogic Ready/Oracle SPARC SuperCluster Ready Datasheet Template

News & Information

• New! NEW!  What’s new with Exadata X3?!
• New! Oracle Platinum Services Now Available
  Learn how Oracle Platinum Services, the highest level of support in the industry, can provide your Oracle Premier Support customers with remote fault monitoring including faster response times and patch deployment services – at no additional cost. Visit the Oracle Platinum Services web page for more information.
• HCC Demonstration Video
• Demonstration Video of RMAN backup to a ZFS Backup Appliance with Snapshots and Clones
• New! Certified Specialist Exams Now Available in Korean and Simplified Chinese!
• Oracle Exadata Case Study: Merck & Co Achieves 5x Performance Boost
• New! Oracle Exadata Customer Video Now Available! In this new customer video, Jonathan Levine, COO from LinkShare, an online affiliate marketing network, discusses the benefits of migrating from a shared nothing architecture (IBM) to Oracle Exadata and how Oracle Exadata has enabled the company to:
  • Improve database availability
  • Improve performance by 8x – 30x while using only 12% of the power of previous system
  • Generate reports using OBIEE in 4 seconds or less
  • Offer real-time data analysis to its clients
  This video can be viewed here.
  
  More Oracle Exadata Database Machine Customer Videos:
  
  • Commonwealth Bank Consolidates OLTP Applications on Oracle Exadata
  • Bioware video – only for use in events
• Oracle Exadata V2 Customer Tells All – Information Week - BNP Paribas cuts database size and maintenance time by more than half.  Also see the Oracle Database Insider coverage of this story
• Learn about managing an Exadata Machine with Enterprise Manager
• Go to the Oracle Exadata Database Machine home page on oracle.com.
• Extreme Performance for Data Warehouses Podcast
• Current Partner Enablement Update
• Current Global PartnerNetwork Newsletter
• Subscribe to a variety of Oracle Newsletters - see what’s available
• More Partner News

Local Information

• EMEA Alliances and Solutions Corner
• Search here by keyword for upcoming Boot Camps and Partner classes within your country. For more advanced searches, choose detailed search criteria here in the upper right hand box!

Education

• New! Engineered Systems: Data Center Connectivity training
• Exadata 11gR2 Sales Specialist
• Exadata 11gR2 PreSales Specialist
• Enablement 2.0: Jumpstart your implementation skills via the Enablement 2.0 Boot Camps. These modular training programs are developed exclusively for partners and include key Oracle solutions such as Oracle Data Warehousing, Oracle Database Security Options, Oracle Business Intelligence, Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), Oracle's Acquired Weblogic/AquaLogic and many others.
• Competency Center: Leverage this unparalleled enablement resource to train your staff on how to develop, sell, and implement Oracle solutions. Within the Competency Center you will find:
  • Oracle Data Warehousing Guided Learning Paths: Role-specific training for Sun Oracle Exadata and Database Machine.
• Oracle University: Leverage the premier provider of training for Oracle technologies and products. We offer thousands of courses for learners around the world!
• Search here by keyword for upcoming Boot Camps and Partner classes within your country. For more advanced searches, choose detailed search criteria here in the upper right hand box!

Events

• Oracle PartnerNetwork Events Calendar
• Oracle Global Events Calendar

Tools and Resources

• Tools
  • ISV Technology Starter Pack: Designed to help ISVs who are considering leveraging Oracle technology and possibly migrating their application. An easy five-step approach to getting started with Oracle.
  • Visit the Exadata forum to ask questions and share knowledge with the Oracle Exadata community.
  • Oracle Demonstration Services for Partners:  Oracle Demonstration Services provides demonstration environments to qualified members of the Oracle PartnerNetwork.  These demonstration environments allow partners to leverage the competitive advantages of Oracle’s technology and applications products.  Oracle Demonstration Services currently offers demonstration environments for the broad range of Oracle Technology products, as well as for Oracle E-Business Suite and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne products.
    
    

    - For details and enrollment process, click here

• Resources
  • New! Oracle Exadata Customer Video Now Available! In this new customer video, Jonathan Levine, COO from LinkShare, an online affiliate marketing network, discusses the benefits of migrating from a shared nothing architecture (IBM) to Oracle Exadata and how Oracle Exadata has enabled the company to:
    • Improve database availability
    • Improve performance by 8x – 30x while using only 12% of the power of previous system
    • Generate reports using OBIEE in 4 seconds or less
    • Offer real-time data analysis to its clients
    This video can be downloaded from database.us.oracle.com and featured in customer presentations and events.
    
    More Oracle Exadata Database Machine Customer Videos:
    
    • Commonwealth Bank Consolidates OLTP Applications on Oracle Exadata
    • Bioware video – only for use in events
  • Development Benefits
  • Support Benefits
  • Learn about data warehousing with the Sun Oracle Database Machine.
  • Sun Oracle Database Machine data sheet
  • Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server data sheet.
  • Sun Oracle Database Machine technical white paper.
  • Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server FAQ.
  • Learn about Smart Flash Cache.
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Distribution Rights

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Prior to executing a distribution agreement, Oracle strongly encourages its partners to confirm their understanding of Oracle's business ethics practices by taking the Anti-Corruption Training below and passing a short skill assessment.

• Access Oracle's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Training (Education Program tab)

News & Information

• New! Oracle Platinum Services Now Available
  Learn how Oracle Platinum Services, the highest level of support in the industry, can provide your Oracle Premier Support customers with remote fault monitoring including faster response times and patch deployment services – at no additional cost. Visit the Oracle Platinum Services web page for more information.
• HCC Demonstration Video
• Demonstration Video of RMAN backup to a ZFS Backup Appliance with Snapshots and Clones
• New! Oracle Exadata Database Machine 3-D Demos - The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is the only database machine that provides extreme performance for both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP) applications, making it the ideal platform for consolidating onto grids or private clouds. It is a complete package of servers, storage, networking, and software that is massively scalable, secure, and redundant. With Oracle Exadata Database Machine, customers can reduce IT costs through consolidation, manage more data on multiple compression tiers, improve performance of all applications, and make better business decisions in real time.
  
  3D tours now available:
  • 3-D Demo: Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2
  • 3-D Demo: Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-8
• Oracle Exadata Customer Video Now Available! In this new customer video, Jonathan Levine, COO from LinkShare, an online affiliate marketing network, discusses the benefits of migrating from a shared nothing architecture (IBM) to Oracle Exadata and how Oracle Exadata has enabled the company to:
  • Improve database availability
  • Improve performance by 8x – 30x while using only 12% of the power of previous system
  • Generate reports using OBIEE in 4 seconds or less
  • Offer real-time data analysis to its clients
  This video can be downloaded from database.us.oracle.com and featured in customer presentations and events.
  
  More Oracle Exadata Database Machine Customer Videos:
  
  • Commonwealth Bank Consolidates OLTP Applications on Oracle Exadata
  • Bioware video – only for use in events
• Partner Ordering Policies & Procedures Training for License and First Year Support
  • Replay of the November 2010 Training Partner Ordering Policies and Procedures for License and First Year Support – November 2010 This training is designed for legacy Sun Partners who have joined OPN as well as current OPN Partners reselling new Sun Products. The training focuses on ordering policies and procedures for License and First Year Support. This is an update to our brown bag trainings held in October and includes previously covered material as well as updates and answers to questions we received.
  • Oracle PartnerNetwork Partner Ordering Policies
  • Replay of Webcast on Partner Ordering Policies
• Oracle Exadata V2 Customer Tells All – Information Week - BNP Paribas cuts database size and maintenance time by more than half.  Also see the Oracle Database Insider coverage of this story
• Go to the Oracle Exadata Database Machine home page on oracle.com.
• Extreme Performance for Data Warehouses Podcast
• Current Partner Enablement Update
• Current Global PartnerNetwork Newsletter
• Subscribe to a variety of Oracle Newsletters - see what’s available
• More Partner News

Local Information

• EMEA Alliances and Solutions Corner
• Search here by keyword for upcoming Boot Camps and Partner classes within your country. For more advanced searches, choose detailed search criteria here in the upper right hand box!

Education

• New! Engineered Systems: Data Center Connectivity training
• Exadata 11gR2 Sales Specialist
• Exadata 11gR2 PreSales Specialist
• Featured Sun Oracle Database Machine Training for Partners
• Enablement 2.0: Jumpstart your implementation skills via the Enablement 2.0 Boot Camps. These modular training programs are developed exclusively for partners and include key Oracle solutions such as Oracle Data Warehousing, Oracle Database Security Options, Oracle Business Intelligence, Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), Oracle's Acquired Weblogic/AquaLogic and many others.
• Competency Center: Leverage this unparalleled enablement resource to train your staff on how to develop, sell, and implement Oracle solutions. Within the Competency Center you will find:
  • Oracle Data Warehousing Guided Learning Paths: Role-specific training for Sun Oracle Exadata and Database Machine.
• Oracle University: Leverage the premier provider of training for Oracle technologies and products. We offer thousands of courses for learners around the world!
• Search here by keyword for upcoming Boot Camps and Partner classes within your country. For more advanced searches, choose detailed search criteria here in the upper right hand box!
• Oracle PartnerNetwork Education Benefits Overview

Events

• Partner Ordering Policies & Procedures Training for License and First Year Support
  • Replay of the November 2010 Training Partner Ordering Policies and Procedures for License and First Year Support – November 2010 This training is designed for legacy Sun Partners who have joined OPN as well as current OPN Partners reselling new Sun Products. The training focuses on ordering policies and procedures for License and First Year Support. This is an update to our brown bag trainings held in October and includes previously covered material as well as updates and answers to questions we received.
  • Oracle PartnerNetwork Partner Ordering Policies
  • Replay of Webcast on Partner Ordering Policies
• Oracle PartnerNetwork Events Calendar
• Oracle Global Events Calendar

Tools and Resources

• Tools
  • New! Oracle Exadata Database Machine 3-D Demos - The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is the only database machine that provides extreme performance for both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP) applications, making it the ideal platform for consolidating onto grids or private clouds. It is a complete package of servers, storage, networking, and software that is massively scalable, secure, and redundant. With Oracle Exadata Database Machine, customers can reduce IT costs through consolidation, manage more data on multiple compression tiers, improve performance of all applications, and make better business decisions in real time.
    
    3D tours now available:
    • 3-D Demo: Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2
    • 3-D Demo: Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-8
  • ISV Technology Starter Pack: Designed to help ISVs who are considering leveraging Oracle technology and possibly migrating their application. An easy five-step approach to getting started with Oracle.
  • Visit the Exadata forum to ask questions and share knowledge with the Oracle Exadata community.
  • Oracle Demonstration Services for Partners:  Oracle Demonstration Services provides demonstration environments to qualified members of the Oracle PartnerNetwork.  These demonstration environments allow partners to leverage the competitive advantages of Oracle’s technology and applications products.  Oracle Demonstration Services currently offers demonstration environments for the broad range of Oracle Technology products, as well as for Oracle E-Business Suite and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne products.
    
    

    - For details and enrollment process, click here

• Resources
  • IBM PureSystems Competitive Quick Take
  • New! Oracle Exadata Customer Video Now Available! In this new customer video, Jonathan Levine, COO from LinkShare, an online affiliate marketing network, discusses the benefits of migrating from a shared nothing architecture (IBM) to Oracle Exadata and how Oracle Exadata has enabled the company to:
    • Improve database availability
    • Improve performance by 8x – 30x while using only 12% of the power of previous system
    • Generate reports using OBIEE in 4 seconds or less
    • Offer real-time data analysis to its clients
    This video can be downloaded from database.us.oracle.com and featured in customer presentations and events.
    
    More Oracle Exadata Database Machine Customer Videos:
    
    • Commonwealth Bank Consolidates OLTP Applications on Oracle Exadata
    • Bioware video – only for use in events
  • Sales Benefits
  • Marketing Benefits
  • Learn about data warehousing with the Sun Oracle Database Machine.
  • Sun Oracle Database Machine data sheet.
  • Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server data sheet.
  • Sun Oracle Database Machine technical white paper.
  • Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server FAQ.
  Back to Top

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News & Information

• New! Oracle Platinum Services Now Available
  Learn how Oracle Platinum Services, the highest level of support in the industry, can provide your Oracle Premier Support customers with remote fault monitoring including faster response times and patch deployment services – at no additional cost. Visit the Oracle Platinum Services web page for more information.
• HCC Demonstration Video
• Demonstration Video of RMAN backup to a ZFS Backup Appliance with Snapshots and Clones
• New! Certified Specialist Exams Now Available in Korean and Simplified Chinese!
• New! Performance Stories from Oracle Exadata Migrations – Tanel Poder's shares his UKOUG 2010 slides about Exadata migration performance "This is real life stuff, not repeating the marketing material"
• New! Oracle Exadata Customer Video Now Available! In this new customer video, Jonathan Levine, COO from LinkShare, an online affiliate marketing network, discusses the benefits of migrating from a shared nothing architecture (IBM) to Oracle Exadata and how Oracle Exadata has enabled the company to:
  • Improve database availability
  • Improve performance by 8x – 30x while using only 12% of the power of previous system
  • Generate reports using OBIEE in 4 seconds or less
  • Offer real-time data analysis to its clients
  This video can be downloaded from database.us.oracle.com and featured in customer presentations and events.
  
  More Oracle Exadata Database Machine Customer Videos:
  
  • Commonwealth Bank Consolidates OLTP Applications on Oracle Exadata
  • Bioware video – only for use in events
• Oracle Exadata V2 Customer Tells All – Information Week - BNP Paribas cuts database size and maintenance time by more than half.  Also see the Oracle Database Insider coverage of this story
• Go to the Oracle Exadata Database Machine home page on oracle.com.
• Extreme Performance for Data Warehouses Podcast
• Current Partner Enablement Update
• Current Global PartnerNetwork Newsletter
• Subscribe to a variety of Oracle Newsletters - see what’s available
• More Partner News

Local Information

• EMEA Alliances and Solutions Corner
• Search here by keyword for upcoming Boot Camps and Partner classes within your country. For more advanced searches, choose detailed search criteria here in the upper right hand box!

Education

• New! Engineered Systems: Data Center Connectivity training
• Exadata 11gR2 Sales Specialist
• Exadata 11gR2 PreSales Specialist
• Enablement 2.0: Jumpstart your implementation skills via the Enablement 2.0 Boot Camps. These modular training programs are developed exclusively for partners and include key Oracle solutions such as Oracle Data Warehousing, Oracle Database Security Options, Oracle Business Intelligence, Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), Oracle's Acquired Weblogic/AquaLogic and many others.
• Competency Center: Leverage this unparalleled enablement resource to train your staff on how to develop, sell, and implement Oracle solutions. Within the Competency Center you will find:
  • Oracle Data Warehousing Guided Learning Paths: Role-specific training for Sun Oracle Exadata and Database Machine.
• Oracle University: Leverage the premier provider of training for Oracle technologies and products. We offer thousands of courses for learners around the world!
• Search here by keyword for upcoming Boot Camps and Partner classes within your country. For more advanced searches, choose detailed search criteria here in the upper right hand box!
• Oracle PartnerNetwork Education Benefits Overview

Events

• Oracle PartnerNetwork Events Calendar
• Oracle Global Events Calendar

Tools and Resources

• Tools
  • ISV Technology Starter Pack: Designed to help ISVs who are considering leveraging Oracle technology and possibly migrating their application. An easy five-step approach to getting started with Oracle.
  • Visit the Exadata forum to ask questions and share knowledge with the Oracle Exadata community.
  • Oracle Demonstration Services for Partners:  Oracle Demonstration Services provides demonstration environments to qualified members of the Oracle PartnerNetwork.  These demonstration environments allow partners to leverage the competitive advantages of Oracle’s technology and applications products.  Oracle Demonstration Services currently offers demonstration environments for the broad range of Oracle Technology products, as well as for Oracle E-Business Suite and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne products.
    
    

    - For details and enrollment process, click here

• Resources
  • New! Oracle Exadata Customer Video Now Available! In this new customer video, Jonathan Levine, COO from LinkShare, an online affiliate marketing network, discusses the benefits of migrating from a shared nothing architecture (IBM) to Oracle Exadata and how Oracle Exadata has enabled the company to:
    • Improve database availability
    • Improve performance by 8x – 30x while using only 12% of the power of previous system
    • Generate reports using OBIEE in 4 seconds or less
    • Offer real-time data analysis to its clients
    This video can be downloaded from database.us.oracle.com and featured in customer presentations and events.
    
    More Oracle Exadata Database Machine Customer Videos:
    
    • Commonwealth Bank Consolidates OLTP Applications on Oracle Exadata
    • Bioware video – only for use in events
  • Enablement Benefits
  • Development Benefits
  • Learn about data warehousing with the Sun Oracle Database Machine.
  • Sun Oracle Database Machine data sheet.
  • Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server data sheet.
  • Sun Oracle Database Machine technical white paper.
  • Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server FAQ.
  • Learn about Smart Flash Cache.
  Back to Top

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