Following the success of its Exadata and Exalogic engineered systems, Oracle has unveiled ‘Exalytics' at Oracle OpenWorld 2011. These engineered systems, which combine both hardware and software, serve to simplify the IT infrastructure of an organisation, reduce costs and improve productivity/speed. While Exadata and Exalogic were introduced to enhance database and application processing, Exalytics would be used in business intelligence to handle and analyse data.

Unveiling Exalytics in his keynote address at the Open World, Oracle, CEO, Mr Larry Ellison, announced that this new engineered system “would deliver data analysis at the speed of thought.” Just like its sister products, Exalytics would feature parallel hardware and software architecture and dense data compression. “With a memory of 1 TB ( terabyte), the average response time improvement over existing business intelligence is about 18 times,” he added. Exalytics would be an open solution for use in heterogeneous IT environments. While the price of the Exalytics is yet to be revealed, early testers of Exalytics include the telecom industry, Government and data service providers, said Mr Paul Rodwick, Vice-President, Product Management (Business Intelligence).

“With the explosion of data in the past decade, including more machine-generated data and social data, companies are faced with the challenge of acquiring, organising and analysing this to make better business decisions. We offer customers an integrated set of products to address critical Big Data requirements, unlock efficiencies, simplify management, and create data insights that maximise business value,” said Mr Andrew Mendelsohn, Senior Vice-President, Oracle Server Technologies.

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