Seeking Optimization Through Oracle Exastack Differentiation
In summer 2011 Oracle proudly launched the Oracle Exastack program, which enables partners to build and deliver faster, more reliable applications rapidly though its engineered systems. This program included the launch of the Oracle Exastack Ready program, which is designed to help partners achieve Oracle Exadata Ready and/or Oracle Exalogic Ready status.
Seeing the positive feedback it received regarding the Oracle Exastack Ready program, Oracle followed up with a program focused on tuning and the optimization of ISV applications on Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic. The Oracle Exastack Optimized program helps partners increase sales opportunities, attract new customers and obtain maximum visibility and competitive differentiation. It also was deployed as a way to offer partners more quantitative results and access to both Oracle performance experts and Exastack labs.
To date, the Oracle Exastack Optimized program has been an excellent resource for partners to leverage when getting ready to run and support Oracle-engineered systems, and was made specifically for ISVs that are looking to provide a better end-user experience to their customers, while aligning their strategy with Oracle’s go-to-market. Best of all, the process of getting Optimized is quite simple: ISVs first need to implement Oracle Exadata or Oracle Exalogic and achieve Ready status if they haven’t already done so. From there, Oracle works with the ISV’s technical resources to determine the right performance achievement to target. Finally, Oracle brings the ISV into the Oracle Exastack Lab to complete the performance and optimization testing.
You may be wondering what core benefits the Oracle Exastack Optimized program provides for partners, so for your convenience we have carefully listed them below:
- Access to Oracle performance experts and Oracle Exastack Optimized lab environments
- The ability to announce performance metrics and build credibility with customers
- Maximum visibility and competitive differentiation with Oracle field sales and customers
- Partner success stories and featured placement in the Oracle Partner Network (OPN) Solutions Catalog
- Branding through displaying the Oracle Exadata Optimized and Oracle Exalogic Optimized logos
- Upgrades to Platinum- or Diamond-level OPN membership
Customers will feel confident when choosing a partner with an Oracle Exastack Optimized application, knowing it has been fine-tuned to deliver optimum speed, scalability and reliability.
Visit Oracle Partner Network to view the additional benefits and tools associated with achieving this status. You can also learn more by clicking on the supporting resource links below. To find an Oracle Exastack partner, click here.
Oracle Exastack Partner Successes
Apply for Oracle Exastack Optimized
Apply for Oracle Exastack Ready
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Best Regards,
Lydia Smyers
@lydiasmyers
Group VP
Worldwide A&C and Communications
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I know this is an area Oracle has high hopes for, and has been talking about how the demand is huge for these Exa systems. And I know this is an advertisement post, not an editorial post, but I felt the need to comment anyway.
I think so far Oracle has way over-hyped their Exa-stuff. They are now suffering from having talked very highly of it, pushing their sales reps 5X harder than normal to sell it, discounted the software extremely on these systems to try and get some volume. Meanwhile the volumes are something they have to carefully describe in their earnings call, after talking about “huge pipelines” in prior quarters.
It just feels destined to be a low volume, boutique product, and the ecosystem support will be very hard to attract on a low volume product. That is just reality. In scanning through the links in the artilce it looks like you need to buy one of these platforms also, so it may be a way to try and get 100+ units sold, so their quarterly numbers of Exa-xxx units don’t sound so low.
Tough, tough slog, while Oracle is being attacked in every one of their business areas by more modern, lower cost, options. And if they think they can battle Intel in the silicon/chip race, they have a rude awakening coming down the pipe.
I still would like to see a survey of actual end users or resellers, about the popularity. Not the distributors, since they need to say whatever Oracle tells them. I think the emperor is almost naked on this one.
Bill,
The VAR Guy welcomes healthy debate from folks like you. The VAR Guy will be visiting Oracle soon. How about this: Our resident blogger comes back armed with specific reseller examples. And if they don’t exist, The VAR Guy will report that as well.
-TVG
Resellers or end users would be more interesting to hear from than a distributor, but I would be leery of the 2-3 that Oracle would feed you to talk with vs. a wider survey of 10+ Oracle resellers and their feedback on demand and interest for the Exa stuff.
Hearing from the reseller that Judson A’s brother-in-law in Ohio, or Lydia S’s cousin in New Hampshire, runs is less interesting – cough, cough.