REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., June 12,
2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The new Oracle Exadata Database
Machine X8, available today, features breakthrough hardware and
software enhancements, as well as unique machine learning
capabilities. Delivering extreme performance and availability,
Oracle Exadata is the foundation for Oracle Autonomous Database,
the world's first self-driving database, and Oracle Cloud
Applications. In fiscal year 2018, Exadata set all-time product
sales records with continued adoption across multiple workloads
such as OLTP, Analytics, and IoT, and multiple verticals, including
finance, retail, electronics, and telecommunications.
"For the past 10 years, Exadata has been running the most
critical workloads for thousands of customers around the world.
Exadata now powers Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Cloud
Applications," said Juan Loaiza,
executive vice president, Mission-Critical Database Technologies,
Oracle. "Today, we are improving the performance and capacity of
the platform, and adding a broad range of capabilities based on
artificial intelligence and machine learning to further increase
Exadata's advantages."
With Exadata X8, Oracle introduces unique machine-learning
capabilities, including Automatic Indexing, which continuously
learns and tunes the database as usage patterns change. Based on
technology from Oracle Autonomous Database, the entire process is
automatic and improves database performance while eliminating
manual tuning. Exadata X8 also includes new automated
performance monitoring, which combines artificial intelligence,
years of real-world performance triaging experience, and best
practices to automatically detect performance issues and determine
the root cause without human intervention.
"Across the entire IT infrastructure landscape, when you look at
the last 10 years, Oracle Exadata stands out as a key means for
Oracle Database users to make the leap from on-premises data
centers to the public cloud," said Carl
Olofson, Research Vice President, Data Management Software,
IDC. "As the foundation for Oracle Autonomous Database, the new
Exadata X8 brings a high degree of machine learning to both cloud
and on-premises Oracle Database deployments while requiring minimal
user effort to set up. Oracle Exadata and Oracle Recovery Appliance
are helping enterprises lower costs, simplify operations, increase
security and boost performance for their Oracle Database
environments."
Exadata X8 Platform Innovations and Improved Cost
Effectiveness
Exadata X8 state-of-the-art hardware
enhancements include the latest Intel Xeon processors and PCIe NVME
flash technology to drive performance improvements -- a 60
percent increase in I/O throughput for all-Flash storage and a 25
percent increase in IOPS per storage server compared to Exadata X7.
Each Exadata X8 storage server now features 60 percent more cores
to offload Oracle Database processing and 40 percent higher
capacity disk drives to support massive data growth and database
consolidation strategies. These improvements come with no
price increase, further improving the cost effectiveness of the
Exadata platform.
Additionally, a new, much lower cost extended storage server is
available for storing infrequently accessed, older, or regulatory
data. At Hadoop/object storage prices, all customer data now
receives the benefits of the Exadata scale-out architecture and
Oracle Database storage, including application transparency,
consistency of operational models, hybrid columnar compression
(HCC) and the same security model with encryption across all
tiers.
Exadata: 10th Anniversary
Exadata X8
represents more than 10 years of continuous innovations and deep
engineering, and today runs many of the world's mission-critical
applications, including four out of five of the biggest banks,
telecoms, and retailers. Seventy seven percent of the Fortune
Global 100 run Exadata. Exadata is the foundation for Oracle
Autonomous Database, which uses machine learning to provide a
self-driving, self-securing, and self-repairing database service
that delivers a much more reliable and secure system that makes
organizations and developers more productive.
Oracle provides choice and deployment flexibility, enabling
customers to use Exadata anywhere—in Oracle Cloud, as the core of
Oracle's unique Exadata Cloud at Customer service, and
on-premises.
Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance X8
Oracle
today also announced the availability of the Oracle Zero Data Loss
Recovery Appliance X8, which provides up to 10X faster data
recovery of Oracle Database than conventional data deduplication
appliances while uniquely providing sub-second recoverability of
all transactions. The Oracle Recovery Appliance X8 now features 30
percent larger capacity—nearly a petabyte in a single rack—for the
same price.
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Exadata
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About Oracle
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complete suite of integrated applications for Sales,
Service, Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Supply Chain and
Manufacturing, plus Highly Automated and Secure Generation 2
Infrastructure featuring the Oracle Autonomous Database. For
more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us
at oracle.com.
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