Oracle Announces New Oracle Exastack Program for ISV Partners
- by pfolgado
Oracle Exastack Program Enables ISV Partners to Leverage a Scalable,
Integrated Infrastructure to Deliver Their Applications Tuned and
Optimized for High-Performance
News Facts
Enabling Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and other members of
Oracle Partner Network (OPN) to rapidly build and deliver faster, more
reliable applications to end customers, Oracle today introduced Oracle
Exastack Ready, available now, and Oracle Exastack Optimized, available
in fall 2011 through OPN.
The Oracle Exastack Program
focuses on helping ISVs run their solutions on Oracle Exadata Database
Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud -- integrated systems in which
the software and hardware are engineered to work together. These
products provide partners with a lower cost and high performance
infrastructure for database and application workloads across on-premise
and cloud based environments. Leveraging the new Oracle Exastack Program
in which applications can qualify as Oracle Exastack Ready or Oracle
Exastack Optimized, partners can use available OPN resources to optimize
their applications to run faster and more reliably -- providing
increased performance to their end users.
By deploying their applications on Oracle Exadata Database Machine
and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, ISVs can reduce the cost, time and
support complexities typically associated with building and maintaining a
disparate application infrastructure -- enabling them to focus more on
their core competencies, accelerating innovation and delivering superior
value to customers.
After qualifying their applications as Oracle Exastack Ready,
partners can note to customers that their applications run on and
support Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic
Cloud component products including Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Oracle
Database and Oracle WebLogic Server. Customers can be confident when
choosing a partner's Oracle Exastack Optimized application, knowing it
has been tuned by the OPN member on Oracle Exadata Database Machine or
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud with a goal of delivering optimum speed,
scalability and reliability.
Partners participating in the Oracle Exastack Program can also
leverage their Oracle Exastack Ready and Oracle Exastack Optimized
applications to advance to Platinum or Diamond level in OPN.
Oracle Exastack Programs Provide ISVs a Reliable, High-Performance Application Infrastructure
With the Oracle Exastack Program ISVs have several options to
qualify and tune their applications with Oracle Exastack, including:
Oracle Exastack Ready: Oracle Exastack Ready provides
qualifying partners with specific branding and promotional benefits
based on their adoption of Oracle products. If a partner application
supports the latest major release of one of these products, the partner
may use the corresponding logo with their product marketing materials:
Oracle Solaris Ready, Oracle Linux Ready, Oracle Database Ready, and
Oracle WebLogic Ready. Oracle Exastack Ready is available to OPN members
at the Gold level or above. Additionally, OPN members participating in
the program can leverage their Oracle Exastack Ready applications toward
advancement to the Platinum or Diamond levels in the OPN Specialized
program and toward achieving Oracle Exastack Optimized status.
Oracle Exastack Optimized: When available, for OPN members at
the Gold level or above, Oracle Exastack Optimized will provide direct
access to Oracle technical resources and dedicated Oracle Exastack lab
environments so OPN members can test and tune their applications to
deliver optimal performance and scalability on Oracle Exadata Database
Machine or Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. Oracle Exastack Optimized will
provide OPN members with specific branding and promotional benefits
including the use of the Oracle Exastack Optimized logo. OPN members
participating in the program will also be able to leverage their Oracle
Exastack Optimized applications toward advancement to Platinum or
Diamond level in the OPN Specialized program.
Oracle Exastack Labs and ISV Enablement: Dedicated Oracle
Exastack lab environments and related technical enablement resources
(including Guided Learning Paths and Boot Camps) will be available
through OPN for OPN members to further their knowledge of Oracle
Exastack offerings, and qualify their applications for Oracle Exastack
Optimized or Oracle Exastack Ready. Oracle Exastack labs will be
available to qualifying OPN members at the Gold level or above.
Partners are eligible to participate in the Oracle Exastack Ready
program immediately, which will help them meet the requirements to
attain Oracle Exastack Optimized status in the future. Guidelines for
Oracle Exastack Optimized, as well as Oracle Exastack Labs will be
available in fall 2011.
Supporting Quotes
"In order to effectively differentiate their software applications
in the marketplace, ISVs need to rapidly deliver new capabilities and
performance improvements," said Judson Althoff, Oracle senior vice
president of Worldwide Alliances and Channels and Embedded Sales. "With
Oracle Exastack, ISVs have the ability to optimize and deploy their
applications with a complete, integrated and cloud-ready infrastructure
that will help them accelerate innovation, unlock new features and
functionality, and deliver superior value to customers."
"We view performance as absolutely critical and a key
differentiator," said Tom Stock, SVP of Product Management,
GoldenSource. "As a leading provider of enterprise data management
solutions for securities and investment management firms, with Oracle
Exadata Database Machine, we see an opportunity to notably improve data
processing performance -- providing high quality 'golden copy' data in a
reduced timeframe. Achieving Oracle Exastack Optimized status will be a
stamp of approval that our solution will provide the performance and
scalability that our customers demand."
"As a leading provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for
telecommunications, media and entertainment service providers, our
customers continually demand more readily accessible, enriched and
pre-analyzed information to minimize their financial risks and maximize
their margins," said Alon Aginsky, President and CEO of cVidya Networks.
"Oracle Exastack enables our solutions to deliver the power,
infrastructure, and innovation required to transform our customers'
business operations and stay ahead of the game."
Supporting Resources
Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN)
Oracle Exastack
Oracle Exastack Datasheet
Judson Althoff blog
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