Oracle pushes new memory applications to shrink large data machines

Oracle is planning to release a series of memory-based applications that will keep Oracle in the forefront of competition with SAP.

Oracle announced in Tuesday that it will launch more than 10 memory applications, and its spokesman said the first three will be launched in May, including JD Edwards EnterpriseOne as Sales Advisor JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Memory Sales advisor, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne as Project Portfolio Management (JD Edwards enterpriseone Memory Portfolio management) and Oracle SCM As consumption driven calculates (Oracle SCM memory Consumption drive planning).

The release date for other products is temporarily uncertain, including e-business suite as cost Management (e-business suite memory costs management), PeopleSoft as Project Discovery (PeopleSoft Memory Project Discovery), etc.

These products will run in Oracle's engineering system (engineered systems), including Exadata and Exalogic. Last year, Oracle unveiled a new version of Exadata, the company's chief executive Larry Ellison said it would allow customers to run all their databases in memory. Another system introduced in 2011 Exalytics the memory calculation as an initial design point and focuses on analyzing workloads.

Using the system's RAM, memory, and InfiniBand networks, these memory applications will run 20 times times faster than normal hardware, according to Oracle.

Oracle's introduction of these memory applications is very meaningful not only to drive the project's sales, but also to provide more choices for those application customers who have not planned to upgrade or extend their equipment, but need new features to complement their core deployments, and to drive them to purchase Oracle's applications.

In addition, Oracle's announcement of new applications said Oracle's software was running faster on its engineering systems.

Oracle will no doubt want to compete with SAP's HANA memory database through these memory applications, which SAP calls its Hana memory database as its fastest-growing product ever. SAP hopes to eventually move customers who now use Oracle databases to Hana.

SAP is also developing applications dedicated to Hana, and is promoting the formation of a partner ecosystem around the database.

Oracle also announced a new reduced version of Big Data appliance x3-2 in Tuesday, the entry-level rack option loads six servers into a full-size rack, enabling the enterprise to only pay lower initial procurement costs and to scale capacity according to its own requirements, With the new in-rack extension option.

The software stack that runs on this large data device includes Oracle's Linux distribution, Hotspot JVM, NoSQL database, and Cloudera's Hadoop release.

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