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Cisco and Oracle-Partnership Overview

Cisco and Oracle-Partnership Overview
Text Box: "CEOs and government leaders worldwide clearly understand the productivity opportunities and the associated standard of living implications that Internet business solutions provide."John ChambersPresident and CEOCisco Systems, Inc."As market leaders, both Cisco and Oracle have been working closely together to meet the latest application and network performance challenges to help customers successfully realize business productivity improvements."Vijay TellaVice President, DevelopmentOracle

CISCO AND ORACLE-WORKING TOGETHER FOR MORE THAN 15 YEARS

Since 1979, Oracle has delivered market-leading enterprise software applications that automate business processes and accelerate workplace productivity. Today, Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company, enabling 98 of the Fortune 100 companies over the Internet.
Since 1984, Cisco Systems® has delivered market-leading network solutions that enable systems to communicate and accelerate workplace productivity. Today, Cisco® is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, with presence in 152 countries.
Since the early 1990s when demand for enterprise applications delivered through the Internet exploded, these two technology leaders have been working to satisfy this demand and continuously help customers realize productivity benefits.
Today, Cisco and Oracle are meeting present-day productivity challenges of faster performance to more geographically dispersed and mobile, enterprise application customers by optimizing interactions between applications and the Internet-centric network.

CISCO NETWORKS AND ORACLE FUSION MIDDLEWARE AND APPLICATIONS

Foundation for Growth

For years, enterprises around the globe have increased productivity by successfully deploying Cisco solutions as their network foundation and Oracle solutions as their business process automation foundation. Such Internet-based deployments have included the following:

Cisco Solutions

Oracle Solutions

Intelligent Switching Infrastructure-Cisco Catalyst® Series Switches to move information within a local-area network
Integrated Services Routers-Securely move data, voice, and video between local-area networks
Databases and Middleware-Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware for grid computing and hot-pluggable architectures
Applications-Oracle E-Business Suite, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, PeopleSoft Enterprise, and Siebel CRM

Working with market leaders Cisco and Oracle, enterprises have seen significant productivity gains from these Internet-based deployments, and built a foundation upon which they can grow their business.

Performance and Productivity

Cisco Application Networking Services (ANS) products and Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle applications products work together to address increasing performance expectations of users accessing enterprise applications across the Internet. Such Cisco solutions include the following market-leading products:

Cisco Solutions

Associated Cisco Products

Content Switching and Server Load Balancing-Enables more scalable and available applications with fewer server and network resources
Application Acceleration-Improves application performance across the WAN to that of LAN speeds
• Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) Module
• Cisco Content Switching Module (CSM)
• Cisco Content Services Switches (CSS)
• Cisco Global Site Selector (GSS)
• Cisco Application and Content Networking System (ACNS)
• Cisco Application Velocity System (AVS)
• Cisco Wide-Area Application Services (WAAS)

Using these products, Cisco and Oracle customers are seeing significant performance increases to application users that are leading to increased business productivity.

Look to the Leaders

For more than 20 years, Cisco and Oracle have been helping global enterprises deploy Internet-based networks and automate business processes. Today, as enterprise application users demand higher performance and productivity, Cisco and Oracle are working together to meet these demands as well as future requirements.
For more information about the Cisco ANS and Oracle partnership, refer to:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/contnetw/networking_solutions_products_genericcontent0900aecd804555f4.html

• Or email content_networking_pm@cisco.com