Blog: Krish Krishnan: Oracle Announces Its "DATA WAREHOUSE APPLIANCE"

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Oracle Announces Its "DATA WAREHOUSE APPLIANCE"

I'm watching Larry Ellison on stage in SFO, he has just announced Oracle's Data Warehouse Appliance, called as Oracle Exadata - built jointly with HP. The numbers that Larry has presented for performance are good, but not "mind blowing". I see there are a number of similarities with the data warehouse appliances, and the real challenge is being thrown to Teradata and IBM, in terms of customer studies and data volumes being discussed.

According to Larry, the new appliance will be 10 to 50 times faster than current Oracle data warehouses.

What Oracle is doing in the announcement with it capabilities are already being shown in the field by

Netezza
Dataupia
EMC
ParAccel
AsterData

in the field today.

What will make Oracle successful in this space, when they really have this system available will be the fact that the brand name will stand behind the product support from both Oracle and HP.

Well Oracle, you are singing the tune that has been played over and over for the last decade.

Congrats Larry, welcome to the Data Warehouse Appliance Family. You are starting a long journey with the rest of us in this quest for "data warehouse excellence".

As I'm typing this furiously, Mark Hurd just joined and says the "appliance" word is exciting.