Achieve Lower Costs, Scalability and Extreme Performance with Oracle 11g R2 and Exadata V2

According to Oracle, leading organisations across the UK are achieving Lower IT Costs, Scalability and Extreme Performance with Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Exadata V2.

A host of some of the world’s most successful companies are taking advantage of Oracle 11g’s enhanced features for grid computing, storage management and administration.

Agenor Technology, the Ministry of Justice and Grupo Elektra are just a few of the new Oracle customers currently utilising 11g functionality.

Following the launch of Oracle Database 11g Release 2, Oracle have achieved a significant market share, with almost half of the entire relational database market using Oracle products.

Customers cite some of the most appealing features of Oracle Database 11g as:

• Enhanced application performance

• Lower overall IT costs

• Increased reliability

• Extreme scalability

Launched in September 2009, Oracle Exadata V2 is already in use at customer sites on an international scale: current Exadata customers include Amtrak, the Automobile Association of the UK and Screwfix.

Developed in conjunction with Sun Microsystems, features of Oracle Exadata V2 include:

• Extreme data warehousing performance

• Excellent performance in OLTP environments

• 10x average table compression for data warehouse data

• Faster access to business information

• ’Exadata Smart Flash Cache’ [Intelligent integration of flash storage with a database]

Utilised together, the second releases of Oracle 11g and Oracle Exadata V2 provide users with highly a scalable database technology environment that delivers extreme performance at a relatively low cost.

Resources: Oracle

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