Blog: Krish Krishnan« Oracle's BIG announcement | Main | After the hype.. » 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 |