Asciano embraces Oracle Grid computing
- 13 May, 2009 11:50
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Transport infrastructure group Asciano has standardised its financial and human resources management systems on Oracle grid computing infrastructure.
The price of the deal, which supports 8000 employees across Australia, was not disclosed. “The Oracle Grid, which sits on a Linux operating system and comprises two Real Application Cluster nodes, has enabled our PeopleSoft applications and Oracle database to run up to four times faster,” said Paul Rashleigh, Asciano systems architect.
“The incremental scale-out capability of Oracle Real Application Clusters, combined with lower cost commodity hardware gives us a big comfort factor. If our organization makes acquisitions in the future, we can expand the infrastructure cost-effectively, with a minimum of fuss, and at a fraction of the price than the previous mid-range servers.”
“With Oracle’s clustering capabilities, we can now do planned and unplanned maintenance on each of our clustered servers without having to take the systems they support down and potentially losing a great deal of staff productivity time, not to mention business disruption. Our support staff are also relieved of no longer having to do this sort of maintenance at 2 a.m.”
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Attain IT
Will RAC work for my organisation?
As Oracle technology experts, Attain IT helps organisations to determine if RAC based solutions are a fit. We have significant technical services capabilities in this space and large scale RAC implementations on our CV (including the first large scale implementation in Australia) so we feel qualified to comment.
This is indeed excellent technology when used in appropriate circumstances, however the biggest problem we find is application certification. In this case, of course Oracle, who purchased Peoplesoft in 2005, will certify the application on RAC, however many application vendors whose applications run on Oracle are dragging the chain on certifying RAC. This is slowly improving, but for a technology which has been around for so many years now, this is frustrating for many customers looking to take advantage of the many benefits RAC offers.
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