Oracle Aims ‘Exastack’ Program at ISVs

Vaticinator is hoping to convert independent software vendors to certify and run their products on its high-end Exadata and Exalogic appliances through a program called Exastack, the ship's company proclaimed Tuesday.

Stimulating data center operations to so much extremely engineered, specialized systems would go against the current trend toward construction systems with farms of commodity servers. But Oracle maintains that the Exadata database machine and Exalogic application server bequeath actually help oneself ISVs lower total work costs.

"Exastack is really the political program of the rising for ISVs," said Judson Althoff, senior vice prexy of worldwide alliances, channels and enclosed sales, during a webcast Tuesday.

The Exastack programme has two levels, Ready and Optimized. In the archetypical, partners leave be fit to apply some branding exhibit that their applications support Exalogic, Exadata and the software system stack the machines run, which includes Oracle's database, WebLogic Application Waiter, and the Linux and Solaris OSes.

Exastack Optimized partners will derive accession to discipline resources and specialized labs Oracle has arrange around the world, allowing them to particularly fine-line their applications for Exadata and Exalogic.

Before partners visit a lab, Prophet volition work with them to build up a "proof-of-time value exercise," the company said during the webcast. They will so spend a week or two at the lab with Prophesier architects and engineers to test real-worldly concern performance against those previously agreed-upon metrics.

The Ready plan is available immediately, with the Optimized track launching later this year, Oracle said.

More or less ISVs are already working to get ahead optimized on Exastack and Oracle plans to announce more news about the program at the OpenWorld league later this year, according to Althoff.

There are now 1,000 Exadata systems installed roughly the world and Prophesier plans to triple that number this year, Prophet atomic number 27-president Set Hurd said during the company's fourth-quarter pay call last calendar week.

While Oracle has not given specific numbers on Exalogic sales, the initial "rage-up" for that intersection has been even punter than Exadata, according to Hurd.

Likewise Tuesday, Althoff discussed changes Oracle is making to its channel program for the fiscal year that began June 1.

He alluded to some operational "challenges" Oracle and its partners experienced every bit the company introjected Sun Microsystems, which it finished acquiring in January 2020, and entered the hardware business.

"We see we came from a difficult position in fiscal 2020," Althoff said. "We are very committed to being top-grade in class."

Order automation has already seen major advance and former changes are on the way, including an integrated shopping pushcart for both software and hardware purchases, Althoff said.

Prophesier is also pealing out a new business enterprise incentive program for channel partners in the current fiscal year, Althoff said.

Chris Kanaracus covers enterprise software system and gross technology breakage news for The IDG Word Serving. Chris's e-mail address is Chris_Kanaracus@idg.com