Oracle Announced Exadata Database Machine X6-2 and X6-8

Recently Oracle announced seventh generation Exadata Database Machine X6-2 and X6-8 with cloud enabling, more processing power, better networking and of course larger storage and memory than earlier version. In one sentence it's just awesome. 

Key features:

• Up to 836 CPU cores and 14.6TB memory per rack for database processing
• Up to 360 CPU cores per rack dedicated to SQL processing in storage
• From 2 to 19 Database Servers per rack
• From 3 to 18 Storage Servers per rack
• Up to 460 TB of flash capacity (raw) per rack
• Up to 1.7 PB of disk capacity (raw) per rack
• Hybrid Columnar Compression often delivers 10X-15X compression ratios
• 40 Gb/second (QDR) InfiniBand Network
• Complete redundancy for high availability

You can go through the below link to get more details about this high performance Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

• Press Release 
• Overview of database machine
• Datasheet of Oracle Exadata Database Machine X6-2
• Datasheet of Oracle Exadata Database Machine X6-8

Happy Exadating....:)                                                              Source: www.oracle.com