Oracle Delivers New Release of Oracle WebLogic Application Grid
Significant Enhancements to Oracle® Coherence Introduced to Further Enable Application Grids
Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco, CA – September 22, 2008
News Facts
A new version of one of Oracle’s application grid products was unveiled today at Oracle® OpenWorld: Oracle WebLogic Application Grid.
Oracle WebLogic Application Grid is part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware product family and a keystone offering in Oracle’s application grid strategy, an architecture for application infrastructure that enables greater resource efficiency, dynamic scale-out, and predictable quality of service for enterprise applications.
The suite includes a new version of Oracle Coherence 3.4, the industry’s leading distributed in-memory data grid solution, which has improved performance and manageability along with additional language support.
The suite is the latest in a series of product offerings that combine technology from Oracle Fusion Middleware and BEA Systems. These offerings illustrate the rapid progress that Oracle is making in combining market-leading technologies from the two companies into unified product offerings.
Oracle WebLogic Application Grid is the #1 extreme scale-out application grid solution and is based on a set of industry-leading technologies including Oracle Coherence, the #1 in-memory data grid; Oracle JRockit Mission Control with the best performance insight and JVM; and Oracle Enterprise Manager, the most comprehensive management tool.
Through improved reliability, availability, scalability, and performance, the enhancements to the Oracle WebLogic Application Grid create unique and significant business value by providing IT with the ability to support a growing and highly volatile demand for computing power.
Oracle WebLogic Suite, which includes Oracle WebLogic Server, also includes Coherence 3.4 and benefits from this version’s improved performance and manageability.
Oracle WebLogic Application Grid also includes Oracle JRockit Real-Time, which can deliver extreme transaction processing performance to Java applications with its unique deterministic garbage collection, has zero coding impact to an application when replacing another Java VM, and includes advanced management tools for in-production monitoring and application performance tuning with no performance penalties.
Oracle WebLogic Application Grid also includes Oracle WebLogic Operations Control, which automates the adaptive management of applications to help enable the highest possible availability and performance with the most efficient use of data center resource; it does this by enabling operations teams to define policies based on application SLAs that govern the dynamic allocation of hardware and software resources.
Today’s announcement supports Oracle’s strategy of delivering complete, integrated and end-to-end product suites on an open, standards-based middleware and database architecture. Oracle’s approach helps customers to simplify computing environments, lower cost and risk, and provides greater choice and flexibility.
Extending Industry Leadership
Enhancements made to Oracle WebLogic Application Grid reinforce Oracle’s industry leadership in application grid products. Updates to the suite include new Coherence 3.4 capabilities:
C++ Support: Oracle Coherence C++ client – i.e., applications running on top of Oracle Tuxedo -- the #1 distributed transaction processing platform for C/C++ applications -- are now able to access data and services on an enterprise-wide data grid as first-class citizens and leverage the proven benefits of Coherence.
Performance can be enhanced by dramatically reducing the amount of memory required to perform queries that return very large data sets. This means that the entire data set pertaining to the query does not need to be loaded into the grid all at once. The result is that the query can be executed much faster, driving significant performance improvements.
Significant performance improvements can be achieved by ensuring that data coming in and out of the data grid does not need to be transformed back and forth.
Oracle WebLogic Application Grid -- Supporting Quote
“This release demonstrates our commitment to delivering the industry's most comprehensive foundation for developing, deploying, and integrating enterprise applications,” said Thomas Kurian, senior vice president, Oracle Fusion Middleware. “The enhancements to Oracle WebLogic Application Grid and WebLogic Suite, powered by the latest version of Coherence, enable us to continue to set the industry standard for performance, manageability and scalability. By quickly integrating proven BEA technology, specifically anchored around WebLogic and Tuxedo, with established industry-leading products, Oracle is driving its application grid strategy forward and delivering immediate benefits to customers, partners, and developers.”
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