Last Tuesday we announced the second generation of Database Machine. This second generation of Oracle Exadata is now running on Sun hardware. The premise for Database Machine is still the same: deliver extreme performance systems on commodity hardware with ease...
Yesterday, in a live webcast Larry Ellison introduced the next generation Database Machine. Before we dive into technical details, have a look at the announcement and the information out on the web: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/033684 (click here) http://www.oracle.com/database/database-machine.html (click here) Most importantly,...
What are we announcing, well... you just have a look over here: http://www.oracle.com/features/larry-ellison-webcast.html Larry Ellison will be introducing a very cool new offering into the market. The webcast is tomorrow (Tuesday) September 15 at 1pm Pacific Time. Tune in, or...
Got a little busy there with all the comments on the Netezza posting, but now we're back into some of the outstanding topics. This post is the next one on discussing some of the ODTUG session questions (see this post)....
Oracle today released a press release, and we get to now show off some the customers that really understand the value of the HP Oracle Database Machine. Some of the interesting things customers are saying: “After carefully testing various options...
Today was the last day in Monterey. Bye bye aquarium and all the other wonderful things Monterey has to offer. I got lucky with owning one of the sessions in the last block of the conference. But if there is...
Well, lots of fun things as I got to experience in the BI/DW panel at ODTUG. There were some interesting questions from both the audience and Mark (Rittman that is…). The folks on the panel were Michael Armstrong-Smith, Mike Durran...
Should you be in the neighborhood, come visit Hamid and me at the HP Technology Expo in Las Vegas this week. We'll be sharing details on HP Oracle Database Machine with the folks out there in a set of workshops....
It is time to tune in to Kevin Closson's next deep dive into the Exadata secret sauce. He will be doing part III of his deep dive series via IOUG. Here are the details: IOUG EXADATA SIG Webinar on May...
Spent some time looking at various vendors and their offerings and tried to compare it with the HP Oracle Database Machine offering from a customer perspective... In other words, what would I be looking at if I was looking at...
Ok, before you all get excited and make up all sorts of cool stories, better to go to the source and figure out what is going on. First of all, the following is the only place where you hear the...
Are you interested in hearing real customers using HP Oracle Exadata Storage Servers? Intelligent Enterprise is hosting M-Tel who will tell us all about their business case for extreme performance. When: April 22nd - 9am Pacific Time Where: Sign in...
Oracle University is now offering a class on Oracle Exadata Storage. The class is a Live Virtual Class (LVC) allowing your resources and our resources to come together in class without traveling. After all, greener is better! The class outline,...
I had forgotten about this interview, just noticed it in the database insider news letter. You can subscribe to it here, just look for the Oracle Database Insider check box. One of the guys on the PM team (Hamid) is...
There is a lot said and discussed on the HP Oracle Database Machine offering from Oracle. But , at a high level, I think it is important to understand the two offerings Oracle introduced. These offerings allow various solutions for...
One of our goals as a product management team at Oracle is to educate and inform the world about all things data warehousing. We hope we can give you an insider's view of the data warehouse functionality and what the...
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