REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Oct. 15,
2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today announced the new
generation of Oracle Exadata Cloud Service, now based on the
Exadata X8M platform, available this month on Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure. Customers can accelerate their most challenging
transaction processing and data analytics projects with Exadata X8M
in 26 global cloud regions and Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer.
With architectural identicality across cloud and on-premises,
Oracle Exadata Cloud Service X8M makes it easy for customers to
move even the largest and most demanding databases and workloads
seamlessly to the cloud with no changes to applications.
Breakthrough performance, scale and elasticity enable Exadata Cloud
Service X8M to run applications needing multiple workloads and data
types in a single converged Oracle Database. In contrast, AWS users
need to perform complex and costly integration of multiple
different database services. Start here.
"As an increasing number of organizations shift their important
workloads to the cloud, they have found that many cloud databases
have performance, availability and scaling limitations," said
Juan Loaiza, executive vice
president, mission-critical database technologies, Oracle. "With
today's announcement, Oracle enables customers to run any
business-critical database workload—including the largest and most
compute and memory-intensive workloads—with dramatically faster
performance, higher scalability and elasticity, and lower costs
than any other cloud provider. The new generation of Oracle's
Exadata Cloud Service is based on the proven Exadata platform that
is already in use by 86 percent of the Fortune Global 100 to run
their most demanding workloads."
Cloud-Automated Extreme Performance and
Availability
Oracle Exadata X8M, the new platform for
Exadata Cloud Service, features Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)
from databases to Intel® Optane™ Persistent
Memory in smart storage servers, completely bypassing the OS,
IO, and network software stacks. This enables 2.5 times higher
transaction processing IOs, and 10 times better IO latency than the
previous industry-leading Exadata Cloud Service release. Database
IOs are 50 times faster than Amazon AWS Relational Database Service
(RDS) using all-flash storage. RDMA runs over a new,
ultra-fast, 100Gbs RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) network
fabric for the highest analytics throughput.
Exadata Cloud Service X8M also features a new generation of
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) that delivers greatly
enhanced application transparent database scale-out and high
availability for all types of database workloads. In addition,
fully-active Oracle Data Guard database replicas offload SQL reads
and writes while providing cloud-automated disaster protection
within and across regions.
Breakthrough Scale
With Exadata Cloud Service X8M, no
database or workload is too large. Oracle Databases deployed on
Exadata Cloud Service X8M can scale up to 4,600 CPU Cores, 44 TB
DRAM, 96 TB persistent memory, 1.6 PB flash, and 25 PB of database
capacity. Exadata Cloud Service X8M supports relational databases
that are 20X bigger than possible to run on AWS today with RDS or
Aurora—and bests both AWS RDS and Aurora by 25 times in CPU
scaling.
Breakthrough Elasticity
Exadata Cloud Service X8M is
fully elastic. Customers can start small with a minimum-sized HA
configuration with as few as four CPU cores enabled, and expand by
adding compute or storage as needed with no downtime. In contrast,
AWS lacks true online elasticity as AWS RDS offers no scale-out
capabilities; Aurora DB instance scaling "will have an availability
impact" according to Amazon; and AWS Redshift offers no read-write
elastic scaling. None of these AWS database services offer true
online patching and maintenance like Exadata Cloud Service X8M.
Breakthrough Low Cost
The breakthrough performance of
Exadata Cloud Service X8M enables customers to support more users,
deploy more databases, execute more transactions, and accelerate
analytics on less hardware and in less time, saving costs. In
addition, customers pay only for what they need. Organizations can
scale Database and Storage independently online as needed, and
reduce costs with by-the-second pay-per-use.
What Customers are Saying
Burns and McDonnell is a leading US$4B design and construction firm, currently
ranked #1 in the power industry. "We chose Exadata Cloud Service so
that we could easily and immediately scale up to meet demand spikes
without having to buy and deploy additional infrastructure in our
data center," said Joe Kor, PMP,
department manager, IT Enterprise Applications, Burns and
McDonnell. "With Exadata Cloud Service we've been able to reduce
costs by 35 percent and seamlessly move databases from on-premises
to the cloud with Exadata's architectural identicality. Of course,
we can always use more performance to support real-time analytics
and deliver superior customer experiences, so we look forward to
using Exadata Cloud Service with X8M's orders of magnitude
improvements in latency, IOPS, and throughput."
Manappuram Finance Limited is a $2B financial services company based in
India. "Manappuram is helping
customers transform their dreams into reality. We rely on modern
technologies to help us serve customers better, quicker and more
efficiently. As we embark on our next growth phase we wanted a
secure modern cloud platform," said B.N. Raveendrababu, executive
director, Manappuram. "Taking into account all our business
objectives, we choose Oracle's Gen 2 Cloud along with Exadata Cloud
Service for their enterprise grade features, such as superior
security and high performance capabilities. We anticipate 30 to 40
percent in cost savings over the next 5 years and performance
improvements in the range of 2 - 3x times than what is available
currently."
What Analysts are Saying
"Oracle Exadata Cloud Service X8M combines the high throughput
and recoverability capabilities of the Exadata X8M platform with
Oracle's second-generation Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to deliver
an optimal database cloud experience," said Carl Olofson, research vice president, Data
Management Software, IDC. "Faster performance translates into less
time spent on the cloud and lower cloud usage costs. Moreover, with
architectural consistency across all Exadata deployment models,
Oracle customers can move from on-premises to cloud or from cloud
to cloud with no application changes. They also can query multiple
types of data within the same database using their choice of access
models. This capability can eliminate additional, excessive cloud
costs and management headaches."
David Floyer, CTO, Wikibon, said,
"OLTP systems of record are growing more complex. Analytic systems
are growing bigger and answers are needed faster. Data-driven
businesses are combining both in real-time. The cloud database
technical requirements to meet these challenges include the ability
to combine row and column access, integrate SQL and NoSQL
databases, and support ultra-low latency and high-bandwidth IO. The
Oracle Exadata Cloud Service X8M has been upgraded to provide
best-in-class IO latency (~20 µsecs), a hefty data warehouse (25
PB), together with excellent vertical and horizontal scaling.
Wikibon assesses this service to be the highest-performance cloud
database service available."
Read what analysts have to say about the new Oracle Exadata
Cloud Service X8M on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
About Oracle
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of integrated applications for Sales, Service, Marketing, Human
Resources, Finance, Supply Chain and Manufacturing, plus Highly
Automated and Secure Generation 2 Infrastructure featuring the
Oracle Autonomous Database. For more information about Oracle
(NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com.
Additional Resources
- Watch Juan Loaiza's updates on
the new Oracle Exadata Cloud Service X8M
- Read the Oracle Exadata Cloud Service X8M blog
- Read Carl Olofson's new blog on
Exadata Cloud Service X8M
- Learn more about Oracle Exadata Cloud Service X8M
- Oracle Unleashes World's Fastest Database Machine
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