Infotech Lead America: Oracle announced the launch of Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software 2.0.
With this launch, Oracle will be looking at strengthening its presence in Cloud. 40 percent of Oracle Exalogic’s growth comes from customers who have selected Exalogic over competing solutions from IBM, including mainframes.
Customers in 43 countries across 22 industries have already adopted Oracle Exalogic.
Oracle claims that Exalogic is the fastest growing Oracle engineered system with 3x Y/Y sales bookings based on the last two quarters of FY 2012.
The Oracle Exalogic engineered system offers up to 10x performance gains for Oracle Applications, Java-based applications and other business applications.
Oracle said the cloud solution also provides up to 6x faster application provisioning to help customers quickly respond to changing market needs.
Oracle Exalogic provides customers and partners with an engineered system that accelerates the performance and can protect and maximize return on their existing and future Oracle software investments.
“Since the general availability of Oracle Exalogic in January 2011, customers are experiencing tremendous improvements in application performance and vast reductions in the complexity of their application infrastructures, while improving their time-to-market of revenue generating services,” said Hasan Rizvi, senior vice president, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java Products, Oracle.
Netshoes, a retailer of sporting goods in Latin America, is achieving over 100 percent growth per year. The company has deployed Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud solutions.
“Running our Oracle ATG Commerce application on our previous JBoss infrastructure we had 30-40 different machines with 120 instances. We were able to migrate to Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud in less than 3 weeks, without any downtime and have already seen impressive results,” said Márcio Kumruian, CEO, Netshoes.
Netshoes said with Oracle Exalogic, the company has consolidated to 1 server with only 16 instances, providing both cost savings and increased business efficiency. The Oracle ATG Commerce application performs 6x greater than before and is fully synchronized with Oracle WebLogic Server.
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