Oracle–the complete solution

The complete oracle solution is a complete reality, and a strategic direction that is very appealing for the JDE centric organisations.  Firstly, what do you need to run JDE?

• Hardware
• Storage
• Virtualisation
• Operating system
• Database
• Web Servers
• Application
• Management

How can oracle help with all of these requirements, it’s now fairly easy.

Hardware, as you know is going to be x86 or sprac, there are no limits to the performance and scalability that oracle can offer you in this area.  Exadata and Exalogic will give you the ability to crush ANY processing requirements that you might have.  Throw generic x86 processing at the problem, simple and cheap and able to run oracle standard edition.  If you can afford enterprise edition database, then other engineered solutions, like an ODA, might suite your requirements.

Storage.  Many of the engineered solutions have storage built into them, whether it’s ODA or exalogic or exadata.  Bigdata is going to solve all of your big data problems.  Oracle also have a range of SAN based technology to sort your larger storage requirements – the pillar axiom 600 could help you here.

Virtualisation is simple and Oracle Virtual Machine can create a highly available resilient solution for your enterprise.  You can be fully supported and take advantage of machine templates from Oracle, so save time and money and force you down the path of best practice.

Operating Systems – look no further than Oracle Enterprise Linux.  If you need a supported linux OS for your oracle requirements (or any requirements), look no further.

Database – one word – Oracle.  More words, scalable, performance, reliability.  It’s no longer  a difficult or expensive database.  Conceptually people think that it’s oracle and it’s difficult and expensive, we have clients that do not touch their x85 based oracle database for a year and it just runs…  Enterprise Manager allows you to manage the database through a simple and graphical method.

Web Servers – WebLogic is the best web server available, it’s that simple.  Template are easy.  It’s fast and stable.

Application – JDEdwards

Management – This is like the icing on the cake.  Everything I’ve mentioned can be managed with a single management solution.  Raise cases, alert you if something is wrong.  Manage your entire stack with a single management solution.  The technology is simple, you just need to manage it!