After contemplating eWeek's top stories over holiday dessert, I came up with this short list of top stories for 2008.
Mobile Tel is looking for faster performance on 65 billion records of data. Their initial query performance is 10X to 72X faster than their current systems. Chicago Mercantile Exchange had a query that was taking four minutes. They tested it and ran in 10 seconds. They weren't even aware that the query got completed. That's the type of extreme performance businesses are seeing with Oracle Exadata Storage Server and HP Oracle Database Machine.
ISVs and businesses continue to adopt Oracle Database 11g realizing the benefits of recent upgrades.
eWeek published a story entitled, Top Database Stories of 2008. Their list says it's some of the top stories for the database space in 2008, (in no particular order).
While database announcements are 'big' news, somehow I think the real top stories are more about how a database technology helps businesses by saving them money/time/resources, but that's just my $0.02.
Do you agree with eWeek's top database stories of 08?
Oracle in the Cloud Webinar Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific
Attend this live webinar to learn how Oracle and Amazon Web Services enable businesses to quickly integrate cloud computing into their current IT strategy. Get complete details on deploying Oracle software in the cloud and backing up Oracle Database in the cloud.
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I caught up with Ray Roccaforte at the annual conference of the user group on Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, and Analytics (BIWA). Of course, Oracle Exadata was a big topic of discussion at the conference, so I (Jeff) wouldn't let Ray go until he gave the Oracle Database Insider his quick take on the technology and its use for people in the BIWA SIG user group:
Today's information architecture is much more dynamic than it was just a few years ago. Data volumes are exploding generating larger and larger databases, and businesses need faster access to more information. Getting to the right data instantly requires fresh approach.
Join Oracle and learn how Oracle Exadata and Oracle Database 11g provide a comprehensive and revolutionary new platform for addressing today's data warehousing and business intelligence requirements, which can lead to an increase in data warehouse query performance by a factor of 10X or more.
Want to learn more about the HP Oracle Database Machine, HP Oracle Exadata Storage Servers and Oracle Database 11g for data warehousing applications?
Then get along to The Data Warehousing Institute's (TDWI) Europe 2008 event on November 17-18th in Amsterdam. This is a great opportunity to meet Oracle's data warehousing experts, and learn how you can improve the performance of your data warehouse by at least a factor of 10x.
It identifies a major problem faced by businesses: limited performance due to disk throughput bottlenecks as data growth explodes.
The article then goes on to talk about how the HP Oracle Database Machine and its key component, the HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server, is a way to overcome this bottleneck.
Is your data growth doubling, tripling? Have you considered what limits the performance (if any) in your system? is it disk throughput? something else?
Several user groups have the opportunity this November to listen to Oracle Database and Oracle Exadata experts, such as Tom Kyte , Bob Stackowiak, and Charlie Garry at upcoming local user group meetings.
Industry analyst firm IDC recently released a couple of independent reviews focusing on recent Oracle Exadata announcement. You can read the reports by clicking on the links below.
