CHAPTER 1Oracle and Tightly Integrated Hardware and Software Platforms

In 2008, Oracle introduced its first “Database Machine” with Exadata storage and promoted the new Machine as a breakthrough product. Only a year later, Oracle rolled out a set of major enhancements to the original offering in the form of the Sun Oracle Database Machine. In 2010, new node configurations for the Oracle Exadata Database Machine were announced. Extraordinary levels of customer interest and demand led Larry Ellison, Oracle Chief Executive Officer, to call Exadata “the most exciting product [from Oracle] in many, many years.” Today, the Oracle Exadata Database Machine is available for deployment as a platform dedicated to single data warehousing and online transaction ...

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