Oracle Database
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  - Real Application Clusters
    - Overview

Oracle Real Application Clusters

Lower the Cost of Computing
Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC), with Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition, enables a single database to run across a cluster of servers, providing unbeatable fault tolerance, performance, and scalability with no application changes necessary. Analysts are taking note of Oracle RAC's growing importance as large numbers of customers across all industries consolidate their transaction processing and data warehousing applications.

Winter Corp: Increasing the Manageability of the Oracle Grid

	BENEFITS
	24/7 availability—Provide continuous uptime for database applications On-demand scalability—Expand capacity by simply adding servers to your cluster Flexibility—Virtualize single instance databases with Oracle RAC One Node Lower costs—Consolidate servers and reduce cost of downtime World-record performance—Runs faster than the fastest mainframe Grid computing—Oracle RAC is the foundation for grid computing