Oracle Exalogic
Criticism
Mark Benioff, founder of Salesforce.com, presumes that any appliance principally lacks scalability for the end-user compared with the infrastructure, supplied as service, and notes that the Exalogic approach is actually a rollback to the obsolete mainframe concept.[1] Also, commentators have expressed concerns about the appropriateness of placing the word "elastic" in the name,[2] because, despite the ability to load balance, there are obvious computing limits of the box, and those limits cannot be transcended like they should be in a true elastic environment; the same criticism applies to all solutions designed for private cloud computing, in particular, it applies to EMC and Hewlett-Packard products.[2] However, any computing environment is a collection of servers, and since many Exalogic machines can be combined, it is not limited to the single box capacity, which may be considered as merely a building block.
- ^ Clarke, Gavin (2010-12-07). "Salesforce's Benioff: 'Ellison flunks vision test'. Oracle dreams of a mainframe past". The Register. Retrieved 2011-05-31. "The cloud is not in a box — you don’t have to add more boxes to get scalability, " Benioff said
- ^ a b Williams, Alex (2010-09-30). "Why the Oracle Exalogic Cloud is Not Elastic". ReadWriteWeb. Retrieved 2011-05-31.«Placing the term "Elastic" in the name of this offering is stretching the accepted definition of the term as it relates to cloud computing … You can scale your applications up and down within this solution, but in the end, you are limited to the number of cores, amount or RAM, and size of the storage you purchased…» … «EMC and HP are both making solutions that fit this description … use case ends, those resources are then returned to the common pool to be redeployed, just as they would be in a larger cloud infrastructure»