Oracle intros Exadata Database Machine

REDWOOD SHORES, USA: Oracle Solaris 11 Express is available on Oracle Exadata Database Machines X2-2 and X2-8, Oracle today announced.

With this release, customers can take advantage of the mission-critical reliability, scalability, and security of Oracle Solaris to run their online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing and consolidated workloads on the x86-based Oracle Exadata systems, said a press release.

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"Customers have eagerly awaited Oracle Exadata running Oracle Solaris," said Tim Shetler, vice president of Product Management, Oracle.

He further added that customers running Oracle Solaris environments can take advantage of Oracle Exadata in conjunction with their deep expertise and knowledge of Oracle Solaris systems to deliver extreme data warehousing and OLTP application performance.

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According to the release, the combination of Oracle Exadata running Oracle Solaris offers customers:

* Continuous uptime with Oracle Solaris Predictive Self-Healing to diagnose, isolate, and help to recover from hardware and application faults;

* The ability to safely analyze, tune, and troubleshoot applications on production systems with little or no performance impact with Oracle Solaris DTrace;

* Up to 10x faster system updating and rebooting to help reduce planned downtime;

* Extremely fast transaction response times and high throughput with Oracle Exadata Smart Flash Cache for caching frequently accessed 'hot' data; and,

* Dramatically improved performance and concurrency of queries by processing queries at the storage layer using Oracle Exadata Smart Scan to return only relevant rows and columns to the database server.