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In his keynote, Larry had several interesting things to say. First, he announced a new product from Oracle. This is, in fact, their first ever hardware product. It is called The Exadata Storage Server. I wonder what Network Appliances (a major sponsor of OpenWorld) thinks of this? The Exadata Storage Server can be standalone or placed in a grid of these things. He also talked about a new connectivity model between the database and the storage server, named InfiniBand. This allows more data, faster, from the disk system to the database.
Hey look, another new product! This one is called The Oracle Database Machine. Good Lord, it has 64 Intel Cores for database processing and 112 cores for storage processing and gigabytes and gigabytes of RAM. And it holds some ridiculous number of Terabytes of data, something like 168.
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