Oracle unveils Exadata 2 [video]

Summary: At Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison previews the company's Exadata Version 2 computer. He says the new database computer is designed for online transaction processing and data warehousing.

By Larry Dignan for Between the Lines | October 14, 2009 -- 17:23 GMT (10:23 PDT)

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At Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison previews the company's Exadata Version 2 computer. He says the new database computer is designed for online transaction processing and data warehousing. He adds that Exadata 2 can do faster processing at a much lower cost than can its biggest competitor, IBM.

Netezza President and CEO Jim Baum fired back after Ellison called out his company. Baum said in a statement:

Absent from Oracle today was any vision for a future rooted in advanced data analytics. The future of data warehousing isn’t about system vendor consolidation. Organizations want to do more than ‘keep up’ with growing amounts of data. The future is about moving from the data center to the desktop - delivering previously impossibly analytics on massive amounts of data to everyone that needs it. Companies want to learn something. Predict. Adapt as fast possible, without super computers and without great expense or a single massive check to a systems vendor.

Topics: Oracle, Banking, CXO, Data Centers, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Storage

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[i]"The future is about moving from the data center to the desktop - delivering previously impossibly analytics on massive amounts of data to everyone that needs it. Companies want to learn something. Predict. Adapt as fast possible, without super computers and without great expense or a single massive check to a systems vendor."[/i]

I disagree. More and more enterprise customers are looking to "Cloud Computing", or basically centralized compute resources, and reducing the need for edge computing. Make the client as thin as possible and build a massive compute engine in the datacenter. A recent demo I heard about had a Sun presenter ask the audience members to take out their laptops and start MS-Word while he did the same on a Sun Ray thin client connected via the internet to a server over a thousand miles away. Word was up and running faster on the thin client than on any laptop in the room, and by a significant margin. With the price of electricity going up the way it is, a 4 watt thin client to replace my 100+ watt desktop PC is starting to look pretty good...

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15 October, 2009 19:23

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