Oracle presents Exadata Cloud Machine

Oracle has announced expansion of the Oracle Cloud at Customer portfolio with the availability of Oracle Exadata Cloud Machine.  With today’s news, Oracle is offering organizations the ultimate in choice and flexibility in where they deploy the world’s most advanced database cloud for mission-critical workloads. Organizations can now deploy Oracle Exadata in a number of ways, including as a cloud service inside their own data center, in the Oracle Cloud, and in a traditional on-premises environment.

Oracle Exadata Cloud Machine delivers the full power of the Oracle Exadata Cloud Service that resides in Oracle’s public cloud to customers who require or prefer their databases to be located on-premises.

“Oracle Exadata Cloud Machine is an ideal platform for organizations that want the benefits of the cloud brought to their data center,” said Juan Loaiza, Senior Vice-President of Systems Technologies, Oracle. “For many years, Oracle Exadata has been the platform of choice for running mission-critical Oracle databases at thousands of customers, and the Oracle Exadata Cloud Machine extends this value proposition to those customers who want cloud benefits but cannot or aren’t yet ready to move to a public cloud.”

With Oracle Exadata Cloud Machine, customers have subscription access to the most powerful Oracle Database with all options and features, like Real Application Clusters, Database In-Memory, Active Data Guard and Advanced Security, offering extremely high levels of performance, availability and security features for mission-critical workloads.  Additionally, the Oracle Exadata Cloud Machine is 100-per cent compatible with on-premises and Oracle Cloud applications and databases, ensuring any existing application can be quickly migrated to the cloud without changes. 

The Oracle Exadata Cloud Service and Oracle Exadata Cloud Machine provide leading functionality, including:

* Mission-critical database for OLTP, analytics, mixed workloads, and consolidation – all options included

* Highly proven database hardware platform with NVMe Flash, InfiniBand networking, and the fastest servers

* Intelligent database platform with Smart Database Algorithms in storage, networking, and compute

* Advanced database cloud platform with subscription-based pricing and real-time online capacity bursting

* Flexible cloud that can be deployed in Oracle's public cloud or inside the customer's data center with Oracle managing all infrastructure

* Simple and straightforward migration to the cloud – software and hardware are identical and 100-per cent compatible

The Oracle Cloud at Customer portfolio of services enables organizations to get all of the benefits of Oracle’s public cloud services in their data center. The business model is just like a public cloud subscription; the hardware and software is the same; Oracle experts monitor and manage the infrastructure; and the same tools used in Oracle’s public cloud are used to provision resources on the Cloud Machine.  This is the only offering from a major public cloud vendor that delivers a stack that is 100-per cent compatible with the Oracle Cloud but available on-premises. Since the software is seamless with the Oracle Cloud, customers can use it for a number of use-cases, including disaster recovery, elastic bursting, dev/test, lift-and-shift workload migration, and a single API and scripting toolkit for DevOps. Additionally, as a fully-managed Oracle offering, customers get the same experience and the latest innovations and benefits using it in their data center as in the Oracle Cloud.