2. Delivering Efficiency and Expansion from the Ground Up: The Application Grid Matt Wright Director, Product Management, Oracle Fusion Middleware

4. And the Winner is………..

5. Grid 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation

7. “You Are Here” 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation

8. Problems In Today’s IT The legacy of dedicated stacks 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation OS JVM App Svr Custom App OS JVM App Svr Packaged App OS JVM App Svr SOA Svc OS TPM C/C++/ COBOL OS TPM Legacy Inefficiency Difficult Scale-Out Limited Performance

9. Alternative #1: More Boxes Just adding hardware won’t always help OS JVM App Svr Custom App OS JVM App Svr Packaged App OS JVM App Svr SOA Svc OS TPM C/C++/ COBOL OS TPM Legacy 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation

10. Alternative #2: Just Fix with SOA or BPM You can’t just paper over fundamentals 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation Custom App Packaged App SOA Svc C/C++/ COBOL Legacy SOA/BPM OS JVM App Svr OS JVM App Svr OS JVM App Svr OS TPM OS TPM

11. Alternative #3: Improve Applications Costly, complex, time-consuming OS JVM App Svr Custom App OS JVM App Svr Packaged App OS JVM App Svr SOA Svc OS TPM C/C++/ COBOL OS TPM Legacy 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation New! New! New! New! New!

12. A New Approach: Application Grid 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation Efficiency Flexible Scaling High Quality of Service Application Grid Custom App Packaged App SOA Svc C/C++/ COBOL Legacy

13. The Impact of SOA Even greater need for dynamic adjustment 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation App 1 Application Grid SOA Svc SOA Svc SOA Svc SOA Svc SOA Svc App 3 App 2

14. Inside the Application Grid Pooling, sharing, dynamic adjustment 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation App 1 Application Grid SOA Svc SOA Svc SOA Svc SOA Svc SOA Svc App 3 App 2

17. Application Grid Benefits 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation Flexible Scaling High Quality of Service Efficiency Application Application

18. Business Impact 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation Efficiency = Grow Despite Constraints Flexible Scale Out = Adjust Course with Agility High Quality of Service = Rise Above the Competition

20. And the Winner is………..

21. Innovation at the Foundation 9/10/2008 ©2008 Oracle Corporation New Needs New Abilities New needs and abilities are often most powerfully addressed in lower layers 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation New Ideas API API API Layer 1 e.g. JVM Layer 2 e.g. App Server Layer 3 e.g. SOA Layer 4 e.g. BPM Deterministic Garbage Collection AJAX Acceleration In-memory Data Grid

22. Application Grid Fundamentals Core capabilities 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation 2. Control Allocation 3. View Behavior 4. Automate 1. Share Resources Management App App App SOA Svc SOA Svc

23. Application Grid Technologies Foundation-level middleware 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation Java C/C++/COBOL Application Server Transaction Processing Monitor In-Memory Data Grid Management Java Virtual Machine

24. Fusion Middleware Application Grid Comprehensive, hot-pluggable, pre-integrated 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation WebLogic Server Tuxedo Coherence Enterprise Manager WebLogic Operations Control JRockit Mission Control Tuxedo System Application Monitor JRockit Provisioning Configuration Management

25. Building on the Fundamentals Standardized hardware, rock-solid nodes, automation 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation Node Performance Node Reliability Node Configurability Node Predictability Tuxedo Tuxedo Tuxedo JRockit WLS JRockit WLS JRockit WLS JRockit Coherence JRockit Coherence JRockit Coherence WLOC

26. Decoupled Resourcing Add standardized, streamlined, commodity hardware 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation Lower Cost, Less Complexity, Easier Diagnostics

29. Node Configurability Modular application server means efficiency 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation Different application server instances in the grid have different modules enabled Application Grid App Svr App Svr Mem Grid JVM Application Server 1 Application Server 2

31. And the Winner is………..

34. Key to Application Grid: Management Need the right levels and right automation 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation Application Grid App Svr App Svr App Mem Grid JVM Database Enterprise Management Grid Management OS HW

35. Cross-Stack Management Instrumentation at each level; intelligent synthesis 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation Is this application near any critical SLA threshold? Do I need to adjust parameters on this machine? Do I need to adjust the memory grid? Can I better optimize grid across all applications? Management App Svr Mem Grid JVM Applica

36. WebLogic Operations Control Intelligent synthesis 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation WebLogic Operations Control Policies SLA Needs Manual Input Resource Adjust Svc Start/ Stop Metrics Automation App Svr Mem Grid JVM Applica

37. WebLogic Operations Control Intelligent synthesis 06/06/09 ©2008 Oracle Corporation WebLogic Operations Control Policies SLA Needs Manual Input Resource Adjust Svc Start/ Stop Metrics Automation Differentiator #3: Cross-Stack Grid Management App Svr Mem Grid JVM Applica