how healthways delivered almost infinite scalability for their "grid everywhere“...
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More and more companies like Healthways are looking to front-end their entire database infrastructure with Oracle Coherence in order to achieve the scalability, availability and throughput their organizations require. In doing so, however, the need to gain insight into Coherence cluster behavior, and access data contained within the caches becomes even more critical. Learn how Healthways has been able to deliver almost infinite scalability for their Embrace Platform using SL’s RTView Oracle Coherence Monitor.TRANSCRIPT
L H H lth D li dLearn How Healthways DeliveredAlmost Infinite Scalability for Their
"Grid Everywhere“ Environment Based onGrid Everywhere Environment Based on SL's RTView for Oracle Coherence
October 2010
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How Healthways Delivered AlmostHow Healthways Delivered Almost Infinite Scalability for Their "Grid
Everywhere" Environment Based onEverywhere Environment Based on SL's RTView for Oracle Coherence
October 2010
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Kevin ForbesChief Enterprise Architect
Oracle Fusion Middleware Evangelist
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Healthways and the Embrace Platform
• Extreme transaction processingp g
• ~30-40 million people in the US are eligible to use the Embrace platform daily
• 70-80% of Americans covered by healthcare
• ~25 billion messages per dayg p y
• every one runs through the rules engine
• tens of thousands of business rules per message• tens of thousands of business rules per message
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Challenges
• Exponential growth in volumes of health-related datap g
• Constantly changing data
• Need to centralize information from all 13 call centers withoutNeed to centralize information from all 13 call centers without additional risk
• Too many monitoring tools, yet no visibility into the gridy g , y y g
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Project Objectives
• Reduce costs
• Deliver “infinite scalability”
• Improve availability and throughputImprove availability and throughput
• Simplify complexity
• O ti i ffi i• Optimize efficiency
• Provide an integrated platform
• High availability - “Grid everywhere!”
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The Solution
• Architecture – both SOA and EDA
• 11G R2 databases
• Oracle Coherence
• caching large volumes of master data
• parallel compute cluster
• grow into XTP
• 7 – 4-processor nodes running Coherence
• 140 nodes in the cluster
• RTView Oracle Coherence Monitor
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• 1 day to configure and deploy
Overview of the Embrace Architecture
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Overview of the Embrace Architecture
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Overview of the Embrace Architecture
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Why Coherence Needs Monitoring
• “Grid everywhere” = almost complete reliance on Oracle y pCoherence grid
• Coherence = single source of truth
• Coherence = “black box” in production
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Why RTView for Oracle Coherence
• Product maturityy
• Ability to scale in an “Infinite Scalability” environment
• SL Team’s expertise in grid monitoring and in particularSL Team s expertise in grid monitoring and, in particular, with Oracle Coherence
• Responsiveness of the SL Teamp
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Achieved Results
• Almost infinite scalabilityy
• Better data quality and operational efficiency
• Offload 70% of data readsOffload 70% of data reads
• Set stage for XTP
• Fit ith t i t t• Fit with event processing strategy
• Lower complexity and cost of system
• potential savings of ~$25MM over 3 years
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RTView for RTView for Oracle Coherence
Tom LubinskiFounder and CEOSL Corporation
October 20, 2010
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About SL Corporation
Recognized leader in Application Performance Management
Located near San Francisco CA; subsidiary in Tokyo JapanLocated near San Francisco, CA; subsidiary in Tokyo, Japan
Flagship product: RTView for APM
Oracle Coherence Monitor (OCM) and Cache Viewer (OCV) based on
RTView platformRTView platform
Oracle Platinum Partner
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What is RTView for Oracle Coherence?
A Real-time Monitoring and Management Application for g pp
Oracle Coherence In-Memory Data Grids
Addresses growing problem of how to maintain reliabilityhow to maintain reliability,
scalability and performance of applications built around
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ppOracle Coherence
How RTView for Oracle Coherence Works
The RTView platform -The RTView platform real-time data collection, analysis and presentation
of monitoring metrics from Coherence and applications dependent on itapplications dependent on it
The Oracle Coherence Monitor (OCM) -Coherence specific views alerts andCoherence-specific views, alerts and
management functions in a modular, easy-to-deploy and scalable package
The Oracle Coherence Viewer (OCV) –inspect and manipulate data contained in a
Coherence cluster
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Coherence cluster
RTView for Oracle CoherenceUnified Real-time Display of
data from all Application tiersdata from all Application tiers
Update for ORCL
In depth Monitoring of
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In-depth Monitoring of Coherence Infrastructure
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RTView Platform – Customization Using the Builder
The RTView BuilderThe RTView Builder provides rapid display and GUI development.
All OCM and OCV displays may be customized or
extended using the Builder.
Users may developUsers may develop custom views and controls for their
application MBeans
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application MBeans
Example RTView Custom Displays• Many types of presentation used to navigate through multiple tiers of data
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How RTView for Oracle Coherence is Unique
• Uniquely engineered to handle large, complex environments
• Most advanced data archival and analytics capabilities
• Seamless Desktop, AJAX, Flash deployment optionsp, , p y p
• Sophisticated Builder, or Rapid Development Environment for custom views, alerts, data models
• Multi-dimensional views – collect, correlate data from all tiers
• Feature-rich, yet modular and easy to deployFeature rich, yet modular and easy to deploy
• Available as platform, or as out-of-the-box solutions for messaging, BPM, and distributed caching systems
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How RTView Helps Customers
Respond faster and deploy quickly, with low TCO
Include all necessary data in an
APM solution
Automate alerts and corrective actions
where possiblep
Drive decision making and analysis from historical data
Handle large scale and distributed
applications
Deliver on all data visualization and troubleshootingfrom historical data applications
efficientlytroubleshooting
requirements
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F i f tiFor more information,or to request a demonstration or an evaluation of RTView
for Oracle Coherence please visit www sl comfor Oracle Coherence, please visit www.sl.com-or -
call (415) 927-8400( )
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