Awesome, Oracle enters the Hardware arena!!!

Yeeeesss,!!! Larry Elison is releasing right now at OOW2008, which is the first attempt to enter the hardware market, in partnership with HP, offering which is the greatest improvement on Database technology, with improvements on performance that range from 10x minimum, Exadata establish a milestone for Oracle and the IT Industry.

This product, which he labels as a “Database Machine”, has been under development (secretly of course) for 3 years, and proposes adding inteligence to the storage and multipling the storage capacity.

Packed with Oracle software, up to 168Tb on disk storage, 64 CPU cores provided and assembled by Hewlett Packard; results are astonishing, with benchmarks showing improvements on performance by x28 and hardware space savings that may make a hot-sell product, maybe as hot as the iPod, all proportions.

After this great surprise, I think this OOW2008 has been a breakthrough, I franquly need to recover the breath…

For DBAs, Storage Managers and SysAdmins… there is another toy we must learn, and master.

Stay tunned, here at OOW2008, San Francisco.

Oracle New Releases at OOW2008

Charles Philips (President) and Chuck Rozwat (EVP Product Development) have released what seems the next evolution step for Collaboration Suite: Oracle Beehive, which promises to tackle the collaboration fragmentation problem, once and for all. What means for us DBAs? that me may administer in the future:
1) more infrastructure that today is serviced by Microsoft or Lotus products
2) more data growing into our storage infrastructure

Also announced the availavility of a new update for 11g, which is internally labeled as 11.1.0.7 for Linux, with this Oracle continues improvement of their flagship product.

Low at the tech stack, they showed improvements to Oracle VM and their commitment to Linux. Must say Oracle is pushing hard with their VM offer, even with ‘orthodox’ meassures like no-certification for non Oracle VM solutions; we honestly expect to see that strategy difuse over time.

Stay tunned

My first podcast

Starting today, I will be releasing bi-weekly podcasts.

Today is just an “introduction” test (download podcast).

Hope you hear and like them…