Adoption of Exadata - Gartner research note
- by Javier Puerta
Independent
research note by Gartner acknowledges Oracle Exadata
Database Machine has achieved
significant early adoption and
acceptance of its database appliance
value proposition.
Analyst Merv Adrian looks at some of
the main issues that IT
professionals have solved as they
assess or deploy the Oracle Exadata
solution, including:
OLTP
and DSS workload support
workload
consolidation
increasing
performance and scalability
demands
data
compression improvements
Gartner
reports clients using Oracle Exadata
experienced the following:
report
significant performance
improvements
substantial
amounts of cache memory which
greatly
improves processing speed
Oracle
Advanced Compression
providing 2-4X data compression
delivering significant reductions
in
storage requirements and driving
shorter times for backup
operations
Tables
compressed with Oracle Advanced
Compression automatically
recompress as data is
added/updated.
One
client specifically reported
consolidating more than 400
applications onto the Oracle
Exadata platform
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