Asia Pacific's Leading ISVs Take To Oracle Real Application Clusters

11:02:55 AM | 5/19/2006

Recently, Oracle had announced that more than 200 solutions from leading Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) globally and in Asia Pacific have been validated for Oracle® Real Application Clusters. Using this unique technology, ISVs can deliver business solutions that will meet stringent requirements needed to operate mission-critical business applications.
 
Approximately 200 ISV solutions globally have been validated for Oracle Real Application Clusters and over 7,000 customers worldwide run their businesses on Oracle Real Application Clusters. These ISVs spanning a range of industries - consumer packaged goods, energy, financial services, government and public sector, health care, life sciences, and retail, among others - have turned to Oracle Real Application Clusters to deliver solutions that meet the specific requirements for a broad set of markets.
 
“Oracle Real Application Clusters has significantly lowered the complexity and cost by providing centralized management for deploying and maintaining clusters,” said Mr Wang Jianhu, General Manager, System Services Department, Shanghai Baosight Software Co. Ltd. “The ease-of-management clearly helps us save maintenance costs while helping us meet our customers' high availability requirements.”
 
Asia Pacific ISVs benefiting from Oracle's leading clustering technology include Beijing Longshine Information System Co. Ltd, Digital China Limited, Taiji Computer Corporation Ltd, Neusoft Co. Ltd, Shanghai Baosight Software Co. Ltd. in China; Y3 Technologies Pte. Ltd. and Retail System Co., Ltd. in Taiwan
 
“Asia Pacific ISVs are seeking solutions that provide customers with the highest availability and performance at lowest cost,” said Bronwyn Hastings, Vice President, Alliances and Channels, Oracle Asia Pacific. “Oracle Real Application Clusters enables these ISVs to transparently run their applications on clusters of low cost servers to deliver business solutions that are fault tolerant, high performance, and that can easily expand to meet the needs of the business.”
 
A cornerstone of Oracle Grid Computing, Oracle Real Application Clusters runs custom and packaged applications across a cluster of low-cost, industry standard servers, enabling high availability and easy scalability. Oracle’s clustering technology delivers the following benefits:
 
·   A fault-tolerant, scalable infrastructure for database applications on Linux, UNIX and Windows platforms; and
·   The ability for organizations to manage multiple workloads in a cluster and incrementally add hardware servers as required, allowing their applications to adapt easily to growing business demands without disruption.
 
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