Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle (credit: wicho)
The database giant chose its Oracle OpenWorld to introduce its Exadata Performance Storage Server, a device to speed up the flow of data between disk storage equipment and a company’s datbase server. It also said it would provide a high-performance database server to run its own software in partnershhip with Hewlett-Packard.
“There is a huge data bandwidth problem” the company is trying to solve, said CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday, referring to the Exadata product.
The aim is to better manage the data flow.
Ellison said his database machine would be the world’s fastest database server. “We’re not talking about the iPod Nano here,” he said. The machine uses 64 Intel processor cores to run the database and another 112 cores to store data.
