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Oracle Application Server 10g Solutions

As a member of the Oracle Partner Network (OPN), Foundry delivers solutions to accelerate, secure and scale Oracle Application Server (AS) 10g implementations. Both Oracle and Foundry jointly certified this solution for off-the-shelf deployment into enterprise application infrastructure. Oracle Application Server is an industry-leading software platform to deliver business-critical Web services and applications. High availability, performance, security and on-demand scalability are the critical requirements as organizations rely on Application Server 10g to drive business. The market-leading ServerIron switches feature customized support for Oracle Application Servers to maximize the benefits application switching to Oracle's enterprise and e-commerce customers. Foundry ServerIron switches, when deployed in front of the Oracle Application Servers, increase application uptime, maximize server farm utilization, and shield the servers and applications from malicious attacks.

Overview

NOTE: Foundry's ServerIron load balancing switches have been certified in Oracle's load balancing interoperability labs. Oracle experts executed a variety of tests against Foundry switches. Contact Foundry Networks for details about the testing, and to learn more about the benefits delivered by ServerIron switches when deployed in an Oracle application infrastructure.

Oracle Application Server is an industry-leading software platform to deliver business-critical Web services and applications. High availability, performance, security and on-demand scalability are the critical requirements as businesses rely on Application Servers to growing number of users. Foundry Networks' ServerIron Layer 4-7 application and load balancing switches are used as the leading choice of the most demanding customers around the world to increase availability, scalability and security of business-critical applications. The market-leading ServerIron switches feature customized support for Oracle Application Servers to maximize the benefits of load balancing and application switching to Oracle's Enterprise and E-Commerce customers.

Foundry ServerIron switches, when deployed in front of the Oracle Application Servers, increase application uptime, maximize server farm utilization, and shield the servers and applications from malicious attacks. The switches receive all client requests, and distribute them efficiently to the "best" server among the available pool. ServerIron switches consider server availability, load, response time, and other user-configured performance metrics when selecting a server for incoming client connections. By performing sophisticated and customizable "health checks" to the servers and the Oracle Application Servers, the ServerIron switches quickly identify downed resources in real time and re-direct client connections to other available servers. Server capacity can be increased or decreased on demand without impacting the applications and client connections. When demand grows, IT engineers can simply "slide" in new server resources and configure the ServerIron switch to use the new servers for client connections.

ServerIron switches are application aware and can inspect many types of application level content to perform intelligent switching of client requests to appropriate servers. Application switching eliminates the need to replicate content and application functions on all servers, and optimizes overall resource utilization, application performance and availability. ServerIron switches support switching based on broad content types including URL, HTTP headers, HTTP cookies, SSL session IDs, and XML tags.

Foundry's ServerIron solution provides immediate ROI, and also improves the ROI of Oracle applications and server infrastructure. They support significantly higher application traffic and number of users on existing server resources by maximizing utilization. With support for "Server Connection Offload" feature, the ServerIron switches reduce connection management overhead on the servers and dedicate their resources to application processing, which further improves overall performance and capacity of the server farms. On-demand and unlimited virtual server farm scalability eliminates the need for forklift upgrades, and dramatically improves the ROI on the server infrastructure. Downtime associated with security breaches and scheduled maintenance is eliminated, resulting in improved availability, which results in savings of tens of thousands to millions of dollars a year.

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Foundry's application switching solutions are available on a range of ServerIron products purpose-built with ASIC-based and network-centric architecture to deliver highest availability, performance and scalability when deployed in business-critical application infrastructures. The ServerIron family of products feature the high-intelligent TrafficWorks OS to deliver a full range of application switching solutions cusotmizable to the customer environment.

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