REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire - Jan 22, 2013) - Oracle (NASDAQ: [ ORCL ])

News Facts

• Oracle today announced new [ Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud ] Oracle VM Templates for several Oracle Applications, which encapsulate the best application deployment practices based on years of expertise with more than 70,000 Oracle Applications customers.
• Oracle Exalogic Oracle VM Templates are now available for the [ Oracle E-Business Suite ] 12.1.3, [ Oracle's JD Edwards ] EnterpriseOne 9.1, Oracle's PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.52 and [ Oracle's Siebel CRM ] 8.1.1.8 and 8.2.2. These are the first Oracle VM templates specifically built for Oracle Exalogic, adding to the [ Oracle VM Templates ] already available for dozens of Oracle products.
• Each [ Oracle Application ] has been tested, validated, benchmarked and optimized on Oracle Exalogic by the Oracle Applications engineering teams for extreme performance. Oracle Exalogic provides a secure, reliable, open standards-based platform for consolidating Oracle, Java and third-party business applications.
• Oracle Exalogic Oracle VM Templates for Oracle Applications can help companies:
  • Decrease application deployment time to [ minutes ], instead of weeks
  • Speed patching with pre-built templates for Oracle Application patchsets
  • Consolidate business applications on Oracle Exalogic, leading to higher hardware utilization
• Customers can also use Oracle Exalogic Oracle VM Templates for Oracle Applications to reduce the cost and complexity of Oracle Application deployments by:
  • Deploying Oracle Applications components at the click of a button
  • Consolidating business-critical applications onto a fully virtualized environment
  • Aligning application resources with business demand through self-service private cloud capabilities, providing up to 10x faster application deployment (1) using [ Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c ].
  • Creating golden images for faster deployments, as well as for archiving, cloning and re-distribution purposes
• Oracle VM Templates are virtual machine images based on Oracle's expertise and best practices that contain pre-built, pre-installed, pre-configured and ready-to-run software applications with no installation required. They can be downloaded from Oracle E-Delivery and deployed on Oracle Exalogic.
• Oracle Exalogic X3-2, the latest product generation, delivers 3.5x better application performance, 4.4x faster web application requests per second and a 4.6x improvement in messages per second compared to the previous generation, all for the same price.

Supporting Quotes

• "Oracle Exalogic has been engineered from the ground up to run business applications and middleware with less complexity and lower total cost of ownership," said Hasan Rizvi, executive vice president, Oracle. "Oracle Exalogic Oracle VM Templates for Oracle Applications take advantage of Oracle's integrated hardware and software stack to deliver the predictable, low-risk deployment process that our customers need for their multi-tier, business-critical applications, in either a conventional or cloud deployment model."
• "Oracle Exalogic and Oracle VM Templates for Oracle Applications enable PeopleSoft customers to easily consolidate multiple application pillars onto a shared, centrally managed Oracle Exalogic private cloud. The templates provide superfast software-based application scalability during peak usage times by allowing customers to create additional server instances within minutes and dramatically reduce the cost of patching by simply swapping server virtual machines with new ones delivered by Oracle. This in turn enables PeopleSoft customers to implement the latest application innovations while controlling costs, maximizing efficiency and achieving a rapid return on their IT investments," said Paco Aubrejuan, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle's PeopleSoft Applications.

Supporting Resources

• [ Oracle VM Templates availability information ]
• [ Online Launch Event: Introducing Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software 2.0 ]
• [ Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Demo ]
• [ Oracle Virtualization on Exalogic White Paper ]
• [ Quantifying the Value of Application-Driven Virtualization ]
• Connect with Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud on [ Blog ], [ Twitter ], [ Facebook ] and [ YouTube ]
• Follow Oracle Application via [ Blog ], [ Facebook ] and [ Twitter ]

About Oracle
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(1) Based on Crimson Consulting Group methodology from the report, "Private Cloud in Action: Early Adopters of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Report Agility and Productivity Benefits" September, 2012.