The Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is an Engineered System consisting of software, firmware, and hardware designed to meet the highest standards of reliability, serviceability and performance. It dramatically improves the performance of virtually any standard Linux, Solaris and Java application with no code changes required and it reduces application implementation costs. Exalogic is at the forefront of the industry-wide shift away from costly and inferior one-off platforms toward private clouds and Engineered Systems. For enterprises that want to get more for their IT investment than merely keeping the lights on, Exalogic is the only choice.