Grid computing utilizes virtualization and clustering techniques to consolidate workloads, enabling pay-as-you-go scaling and automated management. This reduces capital and operating expenses while improving quality of service, user productivity, and staff efficiency. Oracle provides a complete grid stack across all tiers from database to storage to middleware to management.

2. Grid Economics for the Data Center George Demarest Senior Director, Technology Product Marketing Grid Economics Forum

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5. Grid Computing Virtualizes and Pools IT Resources

6. Virtualization and Clustering Key techniques for capacity rightsizing and efficient management

13. Oracle Real Application Clusters Beats SMP Premium, Pay as you Grow Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Large SMP RAC Cluster High Upfront Cost Low Cost Building Blocks Greener and More Powerful + + Lowest TCO Diminishing Returns High Ongoing Maintenance Costs

14. Case Study: Mercado Libre eBay of Latin America Mercado Libre Number RAC Nodes vs Workload

19. “ One of the large Oracle RAC systems we have is a 16-node system with six storage nodes behind it….the uncompressed data within it is about a full petabyte worth of data. It's 200 terabytes compressed.” David Apgar Business Continuity Planning High Availability Engineer Yahoo

21. Grid Concepts in Middleware Develop and Deploy to Application Grid JRockit WebLogic Server Tuxedo Coherence Custom App Packaged App SOA Svc C/C++/ COBOL Legacy Virtualization Virtualization Enterprise Manager APPLICATION GRID

25. “ We manage thousands of databases and application servers with Enterprise Manager, and we have been able to reduce the time for provisioning software from 4 hours down to 1 hour, as well as reduce patch application time from 1 hour down to 1 minute per database. Enterprise Manager Grid Control allows us to automate this process, which translates into huge savings in time and money.” Andreas Stephan Senior DBA Consultant Bayer Business Service

27. Linux and Virtualization Lowest Cost Platform Oracle Enterprise Linux Dedicated engineering team Free Oracle Management pack for Linux Oracle VM Oracle Validated Configurations for Linux and Oracle VM Faster Deployment Free to download, use and distribute Real-world testing and validation 24X7 support, 145 countries, 27 languages Unbreakable Linux Support Oracle VM templates

30. Case Study: University of Massachussetts Virtualization and Linux 5 campuses 75,000 students and faculty Before After Silo’d infrastructure “ Shared infrastructure” (grid) 10% - 15% server utilization 70+% server utilization 500 legacy servers 175 Linux servers “ Increasingly high risk due to management complexity” “ Significantly reduced risk from ease-of-management and integrated failover” Dedicated App/Web tier 100% virtualized App/Web tier 30 - 60% reduction in TCO: lower CapEx, energy costs, HR cost avoidance