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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / SEPTEMBER 15, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 37
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PLATFORM SEES FUTURE WITH ORACLE
Grid computing software provider Platform Computing Inc, announced planned
support for Oracle Database 10g. Platform's technology helps organizations
integrate and optimize their distributed IT assets, enabling higher
utilization, improved service levels and reduced costs. The joint solution of
Platform software and Oracle Database 10g will enable customers to simplify
their scheduling environment and efficiently manage Grids across a
virtualized, heterogeneous environment.
"The majority of businesses require processing complex business flows,
including both database and operating system batch jobs. Oracle and Platform
Computing can greatly simplify manageability of these complex job flows by
providing a centralized management tool," said Ian Baird, chief business
architect at Platform. "With this solution, we can integrate all Oracle and
non-Oracle scheduling requirements, which will help our customers meet
critical service needs and dynamically realign IT resources to respond to
changing business needs."
A typical characteristic of a Grid environment is the existence of
distributed
resources (such as computers, databases and storage) that need to be
coordinated for computational processing. Each of these different resources
has different resource managers that are used to mediate user access to the
resource, implement policies and efficiently provision the resource.
To provide this capability in environments that host multiple databases and
multiple compute engines for non-database computations, Platform will create
an integrated solution that combines the scheduling capability in Platform
JobScheduler, Grid-enabled enterprise batch process automation software. This
solution will virtualize the Grid environment by transparently communicating
with the underlying resource managers on behalf of the user.
The planned integration will enable companies to simplify their scheduling
environment. Users can design and monitor the scheduling and execution of
Oracle Database jobs and batch application jobs using Platform JobScheduler.
Multiple types of jobs, including Oracle Database jobs or normal command-line
executables, can be scheduled using the same scheduling solution. Jobs across
the enterprise can be stored in a central repository and a single graphical
interface can be used for scheduling and managing these jobs. Database jobs
can be incorporated into complex business flows, which can be used to trigger
other jobs or job flows.
"Partners such as Platform Computing that integrate their technology and
test
for performance, interoperability and scalability, have proven very beneficial
in mapping out our technology to meet customer demands," said Benny Souder,
vice president of Distributed Database Development at Oracle. "We believe this
feature-rich new version of our Oracle Database, along with Platform's
Grid-enabled scheduler, delivers on the promise to provide an accelerated path
to enterprise Grid computing for our mutual customers."
The Oracle Database 10g Partner Beta Program was designed to give Oracle
customers and partners an early look at some of the new key systems management
and Grid related features of Oracle Database 10g. The beta program gives
partners a head start on developing solutions for customers that deliver
improved manageability, margins and reduced administration costs.
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