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Radical processing performance, significantly faster deployments, simpler maintenance, instant visuals for in-depth analysis, and big data that's finally manageable. Oracle's engineered systems bring modern speed and simplicity to every layer of the technology stack and every aspect of your business at the lowest cost.

Engineered systems—Built to get the job done faster, better, or more efficiently than it has ever been done before. It's the hallmark of a modern infrastructure and the ultimate embodiment of Oracle's drive to transform business and simplify IT.

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It's All in There - Which Means Lowest Cost

With an inclusive "in-a-box" strategy, Oracle's engineered systems combine best-of-breed hardware and software components with game-changing technical innovations which means the best performance at the lowest cost.

Engineered to Solve Problems

Every Oracle engineered system is designed to cut IT complexity and build a platform for the digital economy. They reduce risk, lower costs, and maintain the highest IT availability in traditional data centers and the cloud. Oracle's engineered systems deploy faster, integrate seamlessly with existing IT environments, and provide the kind of customer experience that helps your users do what they need to do faster, better, and more efficiently.

The Oracle Applications business lines—including Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Hyperion, and Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, PeopleSoft, and Siebel—have announced Oracle In-Memory Applications for Oracle’s engineered systems.

The number of success stories for Oracle Exadata Database Machine grows daily. The specifics vary, but eventually they all reach the same conclusion: high expectations for extreme performance are met—and often exceeded—when customers put Oracle Exadata to work.

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The Data Center Revolution

Oracle launched a revolution when it unveiled Oracle Exadata as a complete and fully integrated database system in 2008. Since that introduction, Oracle has continued to upgrade Oracle Exadata to anticipate and meet the needs of customers around the world.

Designed to run Oracle Database and engineered for extreme performance Exadata is still the lower cost solution because there is less equipment to purchase, fewer software licenses required to use it, and lower support costs to maintain it.

A fast CPU is a good place to start building extreme performance, but Oracle Exadata needed more. Oracle’s Exadata Storage Servers combine smart storage software and industry-standard hardware to significantly increase data bandwidth between the database server and storage. Use Exadata Storage Servers with other innovative Oracle technologies—including Exadata Smart Scan, Exadata Smart Flash Cache, and Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression—and you begin to realize what extreme performance can mean for your business.

3D Product Demo: Look inside Oracle Exadata.

Customers Appreciate Results

What do customers get with Oracle Exadata at work in their business?

Business applications should help users do business better. Whether you want to respond to customers faster, consolidate reports sooner, or get the right product to market before the competition, you need extreme performance and less complexity.

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Extreme Performance Waits for No One

Ask your users. They'll tell you they need business applications that help them take advantage of market opportunities and make better decisions faster. They want the latest applications at their fingertips, and they want them available 24/7.

They'll also tell you they don't want to wait—for new applications to be deployed or for old ones to be upgraded. They especially don't want to wait for fixes to IT issues that can affect their work and your bottom line.

The result? Oracle calls it extreme performance: business applications are deployed faster, users can get to work with their applications sooner, and those applications run faster—significantly faster. With Oracle Exalogic, this extreme performance means you can

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Designed, Optimized, and Certified for Extreme Performance

Oracle Exalogic supports a broad range of application workloads, enabling extreme performance for Java, Oracle, and hundreds of third-party and legacy applications. All have been tuned, benchmarked, and certified to run at speeds that impress.

Oracle products are built on industry open standards to lower costs and protect your IT investment. That's standard.

Oracle SuperCluster delivers unprecedented price/performance. It meets the demands of today's diverse data centers by helping you consolidate Oracle Database, Oracle Applications, and third-party applications and providing the ideal platform for deploying database and private cloud services.

Integrated, Optimized, Extreme Performance

Oracle SuperCluster delivers a single solution to handle all types of enterprise workloads. It's an unmatched combination of the highest levels of performance, availability, and operating efficiency, and includes

Extreme Performance in a Single Rack

Oracle SuperCluster combines hardware and software that's preintegrated at the highest levels and then optimized and tuned as a complete system. The best-of-breed components and leading-edge technology that give Oracle SuperCluster extreme performance include

Oracle SuperCluster is designed to help your business get faster results.

3-D Product Demo: Oracle SuperCluster T5-8—Engineered for performance and efficiency.

Think about it. You move the rack into place and connect the power, network, and storage cables. Then you power on the system. The hardware and software environment is installed and configured automatically, and within minutes, the system is ready for you to deploy VMs—using Oracle VM Templates or from scratch. And it’s roughly ½ the price of Cisco UCS for the hardware alone – and when you consider the free Linux and virtualization software with Oracle, our price drops even more.

One Platform for All Your Applications

Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is an engineered system that lets enterprises rapidly deploy and easily manage virtual resources in their production data centers and development environments. It accelerates your time-to-service with fast, repeatable deployment of a full-stack virtual infrastructure for virtually any x86 application and workload.

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What's in It for You?

Oracle Private Cloud Appliance gives enterprises a wide range of business benefits, including

The benefits of Oracle's engineered systems aren't limited to large enterprises. With Oracle Database Appliance, midsize businesses—as well as department-level organizations—can dramatically reduce the time, risk, and costs usually associated with deploying a high-availability database or solution-in-a-box.

And it’s more affordable because Oracle is combining the lowest list prices in the industry with the highest degree of availability and automation. And Oracle Database Appliance includes Free Linux, virtualization & storage software.

Use the World's #1 Database Today

Oracle Database Appliance delivers a complete package—software, server, storage, and networking—that's engineered for easy deployment, so you can get to work in a few hours instead of a few days. It offers high availability, making it ideal for a range of OLTP, data warehousing, and application workloads.

Organizations around the globe are taking advantage of this Oracle engineered system that makes deploying the world's #1 database easy—at a cost that makes it practical.

"Leveraging the world's most popular database on industry-leading hardware in one plug-and-go appliance significantly reduces risk and complexity for my customers."

—Wade Nicolas, President, Enkitec

Capacity-on-Demand Software Licensing Model

When what you need is a high-availability database that's easy to use, fast to deploy, and cost-efficient to buy, Oracle Database Appliance offers a solution that lets you buy what you need now, and then scale seamlessly as your business grows.

The capacity-on-demand software licensing model used by Oracle lets you decide how much product you need. You license—and pay for—from 2 to 48 cores. If your needs change later, you simply license and "turn on" as many additional cores as you need. There's no hardware to buy, and no need to shut down the system for an upgrade.

It's all there. A best-in-class enterprise BI platform, in-memory analytics software, and industry-changing hardware—all engineered to work together to provide extremely fast solutions for BI, modeling, forecasting, and planning. Put it to work right out of the box—you'll be amazed at how much faster your existing analytics processes can run.

Business Analytics in the Extreme

Your best analysts can work smarter (and faster) because your IT group has deployed the extreme performance of Oracle Exalytics. Your sales and marketing teams can identify new customers and new revenue opportunities, and you can lower your operational costs and reduce your overall risk with this preconfigured, pretested, preoptimized engineered system from Oracle.

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The Richest Experience for Business Intelligence

Oracle Exalytics includes Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite, the industry-leading enterprise BI solution for reporting, ad hoc queries and analysis, online analytical processing (OLAP), dashboards, scorecards, and predictive analytics.

Taking Away the Limits

3-D Product Demo: Look inside Oracle Exalytics X3-4.

3-D Product Demo: Look inside Oracle Exalytics T5-8.

You've invested in collecting big data because you know it holds valuable information about your customers and your competition. By combining insight gleaned from big data with the traditional transactional data already available in your business, you can capitalize on previously hidden relationships and get a real competitive advantage. Speaking of investment The Big Data Appliance is the most cost effective being 30% quicker to deploy and 21% cheaper to buy than DIY Hadoop clusters.

The Challenge of Big Data

Everyone agrees on the benefits of big data—and the challenges. With big data growing at such unprecedented rates, how can businesses work fast enough to turn big data into the insight that can help them effectively compete in today's rapidly changing marketplace?

The Big Picture for Big Data

Oracle Big Data Appliance is part of a total platform that includes Oracle Exadata, Oracle Exalytics, and Oracle Big Data Connectors (software for easily integrating Oracle Database and Hadoop). Oracle Big Data Appliance comes with a full set of software to work with big data, including

3-D Product Demo: Look inside Oracle Big Data Appliance.

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Today’s Database Data Protection Problems

Only 47% of respondents to an ESG survey report being ‘very confident’ in their ability to recover their organizations’ databases¹. Clearly, today’s solutions for protecting business data are not meeting the enterprise’s needs. They can lose hours to days of business-critical data, fail to ensure consistent database-level recoverability, place a heavy load on production servers during backup, require time-consuming administration, and cannot scale to meet the needs of ever-expanding databases. They treat databases as a set of disjointed files to copy, not as transactional systems with specific integrity, recovery, and performance requirements. Most often, the end result is missed SLAs for backup, and recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO and RPO).

Reinventing Database Protection

Oracle reinvented data protection with the Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (Recovery Appliance), an Engineered System tightly integrated with Oracle Database that virtually eliminates data loss exposure and lengthy backup windows, while combining simplified database recovery with cloud-scale capacity to protect thousands of databases. It is also a key component in Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture as a best practice for delivering database protection.

Eliminates Data Loss

The Recovery Appliance’s unique integration with Oracle Database enables continuous transport of redo data to the appliance, providing real-time protection for the most recent transactions from all the 100s-1000s of databases across the enterprise, dramatically reducing data loss exposure to sub-seconds instead of hours or days typical of conventional backup appliances.

Enables Restore to Any Point-in-Time

The Recovery Appliance efficiently stores database changes to create Virtual Full Database copies at any desired point in time. Restoring from a Recovery Appliance eliminates the slow, dated process of restoring a full backup and then sequentially restoring and applying all relevant incremental backups.

Reduces Production Impact and Eliminates Backup Windows

After an initial full backup, algorithms integrated into Oracle Database send only changed data to the Recovery Appliance - minimizing production database impact, I/O traffic, and network load while alleviating backup window constraints and automating operations.

With this automated, policy-based framework, organizations or cloud service providers can easily implement Data Protection as a Service across the enterprise.

Video: How Oracle’s Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance addresses today’s enterprise data protection challenges.

Provides End-to-End Data Protection Visibility

Data protection administration tasks are typically scattered across multiple fragmented management islands that correspond to IT roles—database, backup, and storage administrators. The Recovery Appliance provides fully automated, unified data protection management—a complete, end-to-end view into the data protection lifecycle using Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control—from the time the backup is created by RMAN on the Oracle Database, through the time it is stored on disk, on tape, and/or replicated to another Recovery Appliance in a remote data center. The Recovery Appliance also provides real-time recovery status on all protected databases. DBAs know at a glance whether they can meet the recovery window for any database.

Hardware and software, engineered to work together from applications to disk—all from a single vendor. Only from Oracle.

Oracle designs complete systems, engineered to work together and integrated to reduce IT complexity. Oracle engineered systems offer

Oracle's support services experts are focused on delivering rapid time to value and reduced risk. And when it comes to keeping your Oracle engineered systems running at peak performance, Oracle is uniquely qualified to provide the most complete, integrated, and proactive support experience available.

Why Oracle?

There are many hardware and software vendors in today's market, but only Oracle provides complete, integrated engineered systems that offer lower costs, less risk, and more support than any other vendor.

Extreme performance. Only from Oracle engineered systems.