Engineering as a Service
- by jgelhaus
Oracle Exadata Database Machine is known for great compute performance,
and over the past few years, it has also become known as a great
platform for any type of Oracle Database workload, from data warehousing
to online transaction processing (OLTP). But now organizations are
turning to Oracle Exadata for business efficiencies and private cloud
solutions—for consolidation and database as a service (DBaaS).
University of Minnesota
For an inside look at how DBaaS is working in the real world, it’s worth checking into the University of Minnesota’s database hotel. With more than 50,000 students, the University of Minnesota in
Minneapolis is one of the largest universities in the United States. The
university’s centralized IT group not only has to support all those
students but also must provide support and services to more than 40
departments and colleges within the university.
They have two Exadata Database Machine X2-2 half-rack systems from Oracle, with
four database nodes each and roughly 30 terabytes of usable disk space
for each of the Oracle Exadata systems. The university is using Oracle
Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) for high availability and the
Data Guard feature of Oracle Database, Enterprise Edition, for disaster
recovery capabilities. The deployment has been live in production since
May 2011.
Overhead Door
When it comes to overhead, revolving, sliding, or other specialty
residential and commercial doors, Overhead Door is the worldwide leader.
But when they needed to open doors with their customers through a
better, faster, and more agile IT infrastructure, Overhead Door turned to
Oracle and Oracle Exadata.
Oracle Exadata Database Machine plays an important part in Overhead
Door’s IT and business strategy. The organization has two Exadata
Database Machine X2-2s deployed, one in production and one in
development and testing
Read the full Oracle Magazine article Engineering as a Service
