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Oracle Unveils 'Database Machine,' Enters Hardware Market TMCnet Contributing Editor Oracle CEO Larry Ellison (News - Alert) on Wednesday unveiled the HP Oracle Database Machine. This new database machine, created from the longtime engineering collaboration between Oracle and Hewlett-Packard (News - Alert), marks the entry of the database vendor’s foray into hardware business.
HP Oracle Database Machine was unveiled at the Oracle (News - Alert) OpenWorld customer conference. It is designed to help companies fetch information stored on Oracle's database software more quickly while taking up less space in corporate data centers. The database machine is pre-configured for performance, pre- tuned, and certified for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition tools and Oracle Real Application Clusters. Oracle provides the required configurations while HP provides the hardware support.
The HP Oracle Database Machine consists of two components: a grid of eight Oracle Database Servers featuring 64 Intel (News - Alert) processor cores and Oracle Enterprise Linux, and a grid of 14 Oracle Exadata Storage Servers packaged in a single rack ordered as a complete system from Oracle.
Oracle Exadata Storage Servers are key performance enablers for the database machines. They break the performance bottleneck between database servers and conventional storage by shipping less data through larger pipes. Oracle Exadata Storage Servers include up to 168 terabytes of raw storage and 14 GB/sec data bandwidth to the database servers. Exadata Storage Servers can be ordered separately if customers have an existing data warehouse and merely require the storage enhancements.
“HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server uses a massively parallel architecture to dramatically speed up Oracle data warehouses by shifting the data-intensive part of query processing away from Oracle Database Servers and closer to the data,” said a media statement from Oracle.
The new storage servers have unlimited I/O scalability and are easier to optimize for data warehousing. They provide mission-critical availability and reliability.
“For the first time, customers can get smart performance storage designed for Oracle data warehouses, that is ten times faster,” Ellison said.
With the launch of the database machine, Oracle is trying to emerge as stiff competition to database hardware makers like Netezza, which sells data warehouse appliances. Recently, Netezza added a spatial extension to its data warehouse appliance, offering greater speed for the business intelligence analyses.
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Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Rajani's articles, please visit her columnist page. Edited by Mae Kowalke |