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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