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Introduction Oracle has introduced the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud system, but what is it and what can you do with it? This blog item is a small excerpt of the full article that can be found here . The management summary The Exalogic is:  "the first system specifically designed to provide enterprises with a foundation for secure, mission-critical private cloud capable of virtually unlimited scale, unbeatable performance, and previously unimagined management simplicity". In other words the first private cloud supermachine and datacenter of the 21rst century. It can run all kinds of applications of Linux and Solaris and is optimized for Enterprise Java , Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle's Fusion Applications . Overview The next figure shows the hard- and software stack. Hardware The InfiniBand  I/O forms the hart of the horizontal scaling capabilities of the system. Fast connection to Exadata Database Machines . There is a small, medium or full rack config...