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Oracle Introduces The HP Oracle Database Machine: Delivering 10x Faster Performance Than Current Oracle Data Warehouses

Thursday 25. September 2008 - Oracle Transforms Data Warehouse Deployments with Oracle(R) Exadata Storage Servers, the First-Ever Smart Storage Designed for Oracle Data Warehouses

News Facts
— In a keynote address to nearly 43,000 OpenWorld attendees, Oracle
Chief Executive Officer, Larry Ellison unveiled the HP Oracle
Database Machine, a system designed for extreme performance data
warehouses.
— The HP Oracle Database Machine consists of a grid of Oracle Database
Servers and a grid of new HP Oracle(R) Exadata Storage Servers
packaged in a single rack ordered as a complete system from Oracle.
— The latest offering resulting from Oracle’s and HP’s long-time
engineering relationship, HP Oracle Exadata Storage Servers break
the performance bottleneck between database servers and conventional
storage by shipping less data through larger pipes.
— No changes are required to existing queries or business intelligence
applications to deliver extreme performance for large Oracle data
warehouses.


HP Oracle Exadata Product Family:
— The product family consists of two components.
o HP Oracle Database Machine is pre-configured for performance,
pre-tuned, and certified for Oracle Business Intelligence
Enterprise Edition tools and Oracle Real Application Clusters.
Complete configurations can be ordered from Oracle, with
hardware support by HP. The HP Oracle Database Machine is a
high-performance system configured for data warehousing that
includes a grid of eight database servers featuring: 64 Intel
processor cores, and Oracle Enterprise Linux; and a grid of 14
HP Oracle Exadata Storage Servers that include up to 168
terabytes of raw storage and 14 GB/sec data bandwidth to the
database servers.

o HP Oracle Exadata Storage Servers are key performance enablers
for the database machine and can be ordered separately if
customers have an existing data warehouse and merely require
the storage enhancements. Customers can build data warehousing
solutions using HP Oracle Exadata Storage Servers, which
feature industry-standard components including two Intel
processors, up to 12 TB of raw storage and InfiniBand
connectivity delivering 1 GB/sec of data bandwidth per storage
server.

o The 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.

o HP Oracle Exadata Storage Servers deliver 10x or more
performance improvements in data-intensive query processing,
have unlimited I/O scalability, are easier to optimize for data
warehousing, and provide mission-critical availability and
reliability.


Availability & Delivery
— The HP Oracle Database Machine and HP Oracle Exadata Storage Servers
are available today.
— Complete configurations can be ordered from Oracle.
— Oracle is responsible for sales and system support.
— HP is responsible for hardware delivery and hardware service.


Supporting Quote(s)
— “For the first time, customers can get smart performance storage
designed for Oracle data warehouses, that is ten times faster,” said
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.


Supporting Resources
— Oracle.com/exadata