Voltaire IB Chosen by Three Customers of Oracle Real Application Clusters

Voltaire Ltd. announced that its InfiniBand switches and software are helping customers in a broad array of industries worldwide to enhance the performance and scalability of Oracle Real Application Clusters. Voltaire’s InfiniBand products are also supported by the newly available Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters. Voltaire solutions bring accelerated network performance and scalability to Oracle Database clusters and enable distributed workloads over shared servers to lower overall computing costs.

Oracle Real Application Clusters enable database clustering with a shared cache architecture that overcomes the limitations of traditional shared-nothing approaches to provide highly scalable and available database solutions for business applications. By leveraging a Voltaire 20 or 40 Gb/s InfiniBand-based I/O fabric, network latency is reduced and throughput is accelerated enabling customers to increase transaction performance, scale their databases and do more with less.

China Mobile, Loyalty Partner Solutions and Turkcell are among the many businesses that have deployed Voltaire InfiniBand switches and software as the high performance interconnect for their Oracle Real Application Clusters environments.

“As the leading mobile services provider in China, China Mobile boasts the world’s largest mobile network and the world’s largest mobile subscriber base,” said Qiang Guo, IT manager, Henan Branch, China Mobile. “Oracle Real Application Clusters interconnected with Voltaire InfiniBand has enabled us to run our applications faster.”

“As a leading provider of customer management services and the creator of Germany’s most successful multi-partner loyalty program, we maintain very large databases and their scalability and reliability is critical to our success,” said Harald Stefan, database manager, Loyalty Partner Solutions. “Using Voltaire InfiniBand in our large Oracle environment has enabled us to improve database performance while using inexpensive industry standard hardware to lower our cost of computing.”

“Moving existing single instance database applications to a Real Application Clusters architecture may turn out to be a pain if the applications are poorly developed and the interconnect in use is ‘weak’. Voltaire 20 Gb/s Infiniband switches let us keep this pain at its minimum by handing us a high speed, low latency interconnect network in our recently-built, Linux-based Oracle 11g grid which has been architected for our critical VAS [value-added] services,” said Hüsnü Åžensoy, database architect, Turkcell, a telecommunication and technology company in Turkey and the second largest GSM operator in Europe in terms of subscriber numbers. “By ensuring any interconnect latency will be below a few milliseconds in our grid, Voltaire InfiniBand switches give us the chance to focus on other problem areas when it comes to application tuning.”

“The combination of Oracle Real Application Clusters and Voltaire InfiniBand enables customers to expand their databases across larger clusters improving performance and efficiency,” said Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing, Voltaire. “Our joint customers with Oracle are seeing their application performance increase significantly while simultaneously improving the bottom line.”

Voltaire is a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork.

Availability
Voltaire solutions for Oracle Real Application Clusters are available through select Voltaire OEM partners and resellers.