World’s Fastest OLTP Machine

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I hope that by now you have heard about the world's first online transaction processing (OLTP) Database Machine, made by Sun and Oracle.

The Exadata Database Machine Version 2 is the world's fastest machine for both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP). This new database machine goes beyond data warehousing to also deliver extreme performance and scalability for OLTP applications.

Based on a combination of Oracle software and innovative Sun hardware, including Sun's breakthrough FlashFire technology, Oracle Exadata V2 is built on a massively parallel architecture that brings together fast servers, and high-bandwidth interconnects between storage and database servers — a design that radically accelerates database processing and delivers exceptional performance.

The new Oracle Exadata V2 is available in a range of configurations which combines compute, storage and networking technologies, and features Sun's new FlashFire Technology to turbocharge applications. This uniquely well-balanced CPU, I/O and memory system yields high throughput networking and performance, designed and tuned for Oracle technology.

The result is a quantum leap in performance over Oracle's previous generation Exadata machine, including a 20-times increase in random I/O and a five times I/O bandwidth speedup with FlashFire Technology, as well as twice as fast compute and network performance capacity.

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Best Regards,

Gan Boon San
President, Asia South
Sun Microsystems