Oracle intros online transaction processing machine

NEW DELHI: Oracle, a provider in IT services, today introduced Oracle Exadata Version 2, fastest and only online transaction processing machine in the Indian market.

Exadata enables enterprises to make critical business decisions, creating a more coherent data environment and making it available 24x7, thus enabling IT managers to get what they need, when they need it, while being able to assess and analyze both performance and results, said a press release.

It eliminates the complexity of deploying database systems and delivers the highest levels of performance available.

With enhanced features, the new database machine goes beyond data warehousing applications. The addition of Exadata Smart Flash Cache based on Sun FlashFire technology delivers extreme performance and scalability for online transaction processing (OLTP). Oracle Exadata Smart Flash Cache addresses the random disk I/O bottleneck by transparently moving “hot data” to Sun FlashFire cards.

With this machine, customers can store more than ten-times the amount of data and search data more than ten-times faster without making any changes to applications.

The component, massively parallel architecture of the machine allows it to be expanded incrementally by adding storage servers, database servers, and network switches to its fault-tolerant grid architecture. Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Servers provide a high-bandwidth, massively parallel solution delivering up to 50 GB per second of raw I/O bandwidth and up to 1,000,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS).

“Some of the world’s largest databases reside in India. Coupled with the breadth and depth of the SI and ISV community and their familiarity of Oracle Database here, it is no wonder that we have already seen successful Oracle Exadata Database Machine implementations undertaken by the top Indian SIs in overseas markets,” said Chris Chelliah, senior director and chief architect, Appliance and Strategic Solutions, Oracle Corporation, Asia Pacific Division.

He added that by tapping their existing Oracle skillsets to build implementation services for industries such as financial services, communications, healthcare and the public sector, their partners could achieve a better return and lower risk at the same time by adopting this solution.

There are no other database appliances in the market capable of OLTP workloads. A custom built OLTP solution by IBM, for example, would cost 4 times more.

Customers can use Exadata V2 with much ease as all of the hardware and the software is preconfigured. Any of the components can fail, and the machine keeps running. There is no single point of failure in this box.

Customers across the globe have chosen Oracle Exadata to deliver extreme performance for their data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP) environments. Customers are seeing immediate and tremendous gains in performance, high availability and manageability for their mission critical databases with Exadata V2.

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