The document outlines a general product direction for information purposes only and is not a commitment or obligation. The development and release of any features remains at Oracle's sole discretion. It describes Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud as an optimized deployment platform for middleware application workloads that provides consolidation and a private cloud. Key benefits include extreme performance, reliability, manageability and simplicity through the integration of compute, storage, networking and software components into an engineered system.