Oracle Database has long been the one enterprise asset that has the most demanding resource needs.  Oracle Database has also been the one IT solution that companies need the highest possible service level in terms of "up time".   Oracle Real Application Clusters have helped IT maintain the service level the business demands while spreading out the work load for overall greater performance.

Appko Cloud for Oracle RAC (and Database) has all the performance and reliability characteristics needed to embrace the cloud. 

RAC in virtualized environment has had great promise, with less than impressive results in the real world.  The reason is because of the large number of new technologies that need to all work together in concert to yield the bottom line results.

Appko Cloud provides answers to the most challenging issues running Oracle Database in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC):

• Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS) and Automatic Storage Manager (ASM) - Appko Cloud provides several options to run clustered file systems managed by ASM
• Shared Storage - at the heart of Oracle RAC is a shared area network capable of running OCFS.  Appko Cloud offers several options:
  • Fully virtualized logical private cloud with virtualized SAN server
  • Virtualized shared storage utilized by the RAC nodes
  • Direct access to physical SAN across Appko Cloud network up to 80Gb/s speeds
• Virtual Storage - iSCSI with redundancy and specialized networks are used in Appko Cloud with truly next generation data center capability.  From system migrations, to hot failover functionality, to fully redundant high availability; Appko Cloud provides all the enterprise capability you demand for your database.

Appko Cloud let you have, "your database cloud, your way".

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