Oracle reveals Exadata Storage Server

Oracle reveals Exadata Storage Server Oracle has announced two server racks developed with Hewlett-Packard designed to provide high performance for data warehousing applications.

Named the HP Oracle Database Machine and the HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server, the server racks were revealed by chief executive officer Larry Ellison at the OpenWorld conference yesterday (Wednesday 24th).

Each database server is connected to its storage counterpart by two InfiniBand channels which can transfer data at a speed of one gigabit per second.

Mr Ellison told the IDG news service: "The storage system itself runs the Oracle database's fast parallel query software, so we took the capability you normally find in the database servers and moved it into the storage server next to each and every disk drive."

In following this method he believes the technology will take pressure off the interconnect between the server and the storage grid.

Oracle was formed by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates three decades ago.

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