Oracle introduces Exadata Version 2 to the Indian Market

Oracle has introduced Oracle Exadata Version 2, the world’s fastest and only online transaction processing machine in the Indian market. In India, where data volumes continue to grow exponentially, the new machine is targeted at enterprises in the manufacturing, government, telecom, financial and public sectors to efficiently process terabytes of data and pushes that data through storage networks to achieve the performance necessary for demanding database applications.

Exadata enables enterprises to make critical business decisions, creating a more coherent data environment and making it available 24x7, besides eliminating the complexity of deploying database systems and delivering the highest levels of performance available. The addition of Exadata Smart Flash Cache based on Sun FlashFire technology delivers extreme performance and scalability for online transaction processing (OLTP). Oracle Exadata Smart Flash Cache addresses the random disk I/O bottleneck by transparently moving “hot data” to Sun FlashFire cards.

“Some of the world’s largest databases reside in India. Coupled with the breadth and depth of the SI and ISV community and their familiarity of Oracle Database here, it is no wonder that we have already seen successful Oracle Exadata Database Machine implementations undertaken by the top Indian SIs in the overseas markets,” said Chris Chelliah, Senior Director & Chief Architect, Appliance and Strategic Solutions, Oracle Corporation, Asia Pacific Division. “By tapping their existing Oracle skill sets to build implementation services for industries such as financial services, communications, healthcare and the public sector, our partners can achieve a better return and lower risk at the same time by adopting this solution.” 

The componentised, massively parallel architecture of the machine allows it to be expanded incrementally by adding storage servers, database servers and network switches to its fault-tolerant grid architecture. Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Servers provide a high-bandwidth, massively parallel solution delivering up to 50 GB per second of raw I/O bandwidth and up to 1,000,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS).