Oracle Exadata notches up 1,000th global installation

Oracle says that customers have implemented Oracle Exadata in 67 countries across 23 industries, to look after demanding database applications. Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president of database server technologies at Oracle, explains that the pre-engineered, pre-tested Oracle Exadata systems are mostly providing extreme performance for OLTP (online transaction processing) applications through the use of Smart Flash Cache. Others, he says, are providing for extreme data warehousing performance by offloading intensive query processing to scalable intelligent storage servers, using Oracle Exadata Smart Scan. Meanwhile, the systems are also generating 10x to 15x storage savings by reducing the size of tables or databases using Oracle Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression. And across the piece, users talk of substantial cost savings as a result of consolidating workloads and servers onto a single Oracle Exadata Machine, as well as simplified database administration and performance tuning. Mendelsohn also says Exadata is the only engineered system that supports enterprise OLTP business applications, such as Oracle E-Business Suite, as well as Oracle's Siebel CRM and PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications. "Customers are turning to Oracle Exadata for a multitude of reasons: extreme performance, consolidation, cost savings, enhanced scalability and single vendor support," states Mendelsohn. "Beyond the numbers, Oracle Exadata plays a vital role in helping customers transform their businesses, through improved decision-making via real-time intelligence, speeding new products and services to market, and identifying new revenue opportunities through complex analysis," he adds.