If you had forgotten that Oracle was in the hardware business, it’s easy to understand why, as Oracle has not exactly promoted the business very well. Oracle’s hardware is descended from Sun ...

The platform can provide both transaction processing and data warehousing, but fine-tuning is required to gain the most benefits Oracle’s claims about its Exadata database machine’s performance ...

Oracle Corporation continues its cycle of redefining OLTP database performance with its purpose-built Exadata platforms. Last week the company continued the tradition, introducing its twelfth Exadata ...

One of the tech industry’s longest-tenured paradigms—enterprise applications running on fairly generic hardware—is cracking under an ever-increasing volume of Big Data explorations and opportunities, ...

Absorbing a collection of new processing, memory, storage, and networking technologies in a fast fashion on a complex system is no easy task for any system maker or end user creating their own ...

The Oracle Solaris 11 Express operating system is now available on the x86-based Oracle Exadata Database Machines X2-2 and X2-8. The combination of Oracle Solaris 11 Express running on Oracle Exadata ...

Oracle last week introduced the Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-8. The new configuration extends the Oracle Exadata Database Machine product family with a high-capacity system for large OLTP, data ...

A database machine and storage server from Oracle. Using the Oracle Database, Oracle Exadata was initially designed with HP hardware for data warehousing. Incorporating the Sun Oracle Database Machine ...

Oracle on Monday gave attendees of the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco a deeper look at its new 12c database and Exadata X3 machine, which were initially announced Sunday by CEO Larry Ellison .