Информационное Руководство для Cisco Cisco Tidal Enterprise Adapter for Oracle Database
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“Even if Cisco had not had a great workload automation solution in its portfolio, we would have initiated an
assessment of the latest technologies in the marketplace,” says Sudheer Keshav, Cisco ITAS engineer. “It is
important to reevaluate existing platforms that have been around for a long time, to make sure that you are not
staying with something just because it is entrenched and familiar. You get used to a platform and build up an
infrastructure around it, and you can get locked into that tool whether or not it is the best system anymore. We
have the same needs as our customers—to make sure we are using the best solutions to support our business
needs today and into the future.”
Solution
Many enterprises have not standardized on workload automation solutions, leaving different teams in data centers
of a large enterprise to select their own workload automation tools. Until recently, Cisco used two different batch
and real-time job schedulers in data centers around the world. Cisco’s scheduling products were:
Existing Job Scheduler 1
A decentralized batch and real-time job scheduler that each client application team managed, with additional
support from the Cisco central IT group. This scheduler was heavily used to manage a wide variety of jobs across
the enterprise.
Existing Job Scheduler 2
A centralized batch and real-time job scheduling managed only by a Cisco central IT group dedicated to the
solution. This scheduler was dedicated to SAP Business Objects and SAP-related workflows.
These two job schedulers are very different from each other in their approach to scheduling and administration of
the overall scheduling system. Because of the different usage models, the two migrations to Cisco TES had to be
handled quite differently. Fully migrating Job Scheduler 1 workloads to the Cisco TES solution is expected in
2014.The migration from Job Scheduler 2 is already complete.
The company could standardize on Cisco TES in large part due to the broad coverage the solution provides. The
adapters in Cisco TES range from diverse technologies such as Oracle to SAP BusinessObjects, Web Services,
SAP, Microsoft SQL Server, and new data center technologies such as Hadoop and Sqoop.
An extensible framework of adapters, which enables workflows to cover a wide array of data center technologies
involved in end-to-end business processes, is shown in Figure 1.
“We want to give our clients the ability to handle complex job creation
and create workflows without a degree in advanced scheduling. The
emphasis today is on tools that allow large numbers of people to ramp
up and be productive quickly.”
and create workflows without a degree in advanced scheduling. The
emphasis today is on tools that allow large numbers of people to ramp
up and be productive quickly.”
— Ian Reddy, IT Senior Manager