Oracle Exadata Database Machine X8 Builds in ML Advances, and Supercharges Performance

The Oracle Exadata Database Machine X8, available, features hardware and software enhancements, as well as ML capabilities.

Delivering performance and availability, Exadata is the foundation for Oracle Autonomous Database, a self-driving database, and Oracle Cloud Applications. In FY18, Exadata set product sales records with continued adoption across multiple workloads such as OLTP, analytics, and IoT, and multiple verticals, including finance, retail, electronics, and telecommunications.

“For the past ten years, Exadata has been running the most critical workloads for thousands of customers around the world. Exadata now powers Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Cloud Applications,” said Juan Loaiza, EVP, mission-critical database technologies, Oracle International Corporation. “Today, we are improving the performance and capacity of the platform, and adding a broad range of capabilities based on artificial intelligence and machine learning to further increase Exadata’s advantages.”

With Exadata X8, the company introduces ML capabilities, including automatic indexing, which continuously learns and tunes the database as usage patterns change. Based on technology from firm’s Autonomous Database, the entire process is automatic and improves database performance while eliminating manual tuning. Exadata X8 also includes automated performance monitoring, which combines AI, years of real-world performance triaging experience, and best practices to automatically detect performance issues and determine the root cause without human intervention.

“Across the entire IT infrastructure landscape, when you look at the last ten years, Oracle Exadata stands out as a key means for Oracle Database users to make the leap from on-premises data centers to the public cloud,” said Carl Olofson, research VP, data management software, IDC. “As the foundation for Oracle Autonomous Database, the new Exadata X8 brings a high degree of machine learning to both cloud and on-premises Oracle Database deployments while requiring minimal user effort to set up. Oracle Exadata and Oracle Recovery Appliance are helping enterprises lower costs, simplify operations, increase security and boost performance for their Oracle Database environments.“

Exadata X8 platform innovations and improved cost effectiveness

Exadata X8 enhancements include the latest Xeon processors and PCIe NVME flash technology to drive performance improvements – a 60% increase in I/O throughput for all-flash storage and a 25% increase in IO/s per storage server compared to Exadata X7. Each Exadata X8 storage server features 60% more cores to offload Oracle Database processing and 40% higher capacity disk drives to support data growth and database consolidation strategies. These improvements come with no price increase, improving the cost effectiveness of the Exadata platform.

Additionally, a new, lower cost extended storage server is available for storing infrequently accessed, older, or regulatory data. At Hadoop/object storage prices, customer data receives the benefits of the Exadata scale-out architecture and Oracle Database storage, including application transparency, consistency of operational models, hybrid columnar compression (HCC) and the same security model with encryption across all tiers.

Exadata: 10th anniversary
Exadata X8 represents more than ten years of innovations and engineering, and runs many of the world’s mission-critical applications, including 4 out of 5 of the biggest banks, telecoms, and retailers. 77% of the Fortune Global 100 run Exadata. It is the foundation for Autonomous Database, which uses ML to provide a self-driving, self-securing, and self-repairing database service that delivers a more reliable and secure system that makes organizations and developers more productive.

The company provides choice and deployment flexibility, enabling customers to use Exadata anywhere-in Oracle Cloud, as the core of the firm’s Exadata Cloud at customer service, and on-premises.

Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance X8

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The company also announced the availability of the Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance X8, which provides up to 10X faster data recovery of Oracle database than conventional data deduplication appliances while providing sub-second recoverability of all transactions. It features 30% larger capacity – nearly a petabyte in a single rack-for the same price.

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