Research on the efficiency of Oracle-index standard data Center

Last week, Oracle released a http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/8503.html "> Research Report on the effectiveness of data centers", and for most users, Oracle remains a data software provider , so the report looks really odd. But after the acquisition of Sun, Oracle has indeed undergone a huge shift.

First, let's take a closer look at the contents of this research report. Oracle in this report presented the so-called Oracle Next-generation Datacenter Index (Oracle Next Generation Data Center index), which was set to 0-10 points and 10 points for the most mature datacenter strategy. Oracle says the index is used to measure data center flexibility, 17812.html "> Sustainability and Support." Data from more than 900 institutions showed that the average data center index was 5.28.

What is the point of these indices? The report and the 7-page manual do not explain how Oracle calculates these indices.

Virtualization and consolidation should be the main two considerations here, but it's not known how a company's virtualization and consolidation projects affect the index. System Management and server utilization are also one of the considerations.

The study will give us an idea of Oracle's own data centers, which have doubled the number of Oracle employees in the 2006-2010 four-year period, while their data centers have been reduced from 40 to the current 2. Consolidation has cost the company 1 billion of billions of dollars, but the report does not indicate how much the Oracle Data Center index is.

Oracle also mentions their "self-service development cloud (self-service Development Cloud)"

-More than 3,500 developers use more than 2,600 physical servers and more than 6,000 virtual servers;

-The number of physical servers decreased by 75%;

-The average server usage is 80%, at a peak load of more than 90%.

Oracle's focus on data centers is no longer a rarity for us, and they are also starting to buy server hardware products, sell more storage hardware products, network devices, and integrated database servers (Exadata). Now we need Oracle to provide a more specific explanation of what is called a data center index, otherwise all this will be useless work.