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More surprising was to hear the software giant announce a piece of hardware, the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. As its name suggests, it is Oracle's attempt to steal the cloud computing spotlight. It comprises a mix of Oracle software and high-performance hardware and is aimed at enterprises that want to build their own "private cloud" using their own hardware. Sounds suspiciously like mainframe computer.
Each 1U "node" in an Exalogic rack consists of two Xeon chips. Each Xeon chip is a 6-core processor running at 2.93 GHz. Each node has redundant InfiniBand connections. Each node also contains two solid-state disks (SSD) for the operating system and for local swap space. A full rack would contain 360 CPU Cores, 2.8 TB (TeraBytes, 1 TB = 1024 GB ) of RAM, 6 TB of SSD, and 60 TB of SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) disk.
Placing the term "Elastic" in the name of this offering is stretching the accepted definition of the term as it relates to cloud computing ... You can scale your applications up and down within this solution, but in the end, you are limited to the number of cores, amount or RAM, and size of the storage you purchased ... EMC and HP are both making solutions that fit this description ... use case ends, those resources are then returned to the common pool to be redeployed, just as they would be in a larger cloud infrastructure
'The cloud is not in a box — you don't have to add more boxes to get scalability,' Benioff said
Placing the term "Elastic" in the name of this offering is stretching the accepted definition of the term as it relates to cloud computing ... You can scale your applications up and down within this solution, but in the end, you are limited to the number of cores, amount or RAM, and size of the storage you purchased ... EMC and HP are both making solutions that fit this description ... use case ends, those resources are then returned to the common pool to be redeployed, just as they would be in a larger cloud infrastructure
More surprising was to hear the software giant announce a piece of hardware, the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. As its name suggests, it is Oracle's attempt to steal the cloud computing spotlight. It comprises a mix of Oracle software and high-performance hardware and is aimed at enterprises that want to build their own "private cloud" using their own hardware. Sounds suspiciously like mainframe computer.
