He said the Exadata Storage Server will work with “any Oracle database server,” suggesting customers won’t have to be using the current 11g version for their data warehouse.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product--a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid. The ...

CEO Larry Ellison Wednesday unveiled two hardware systems, an advanced database server and a programmable storage server, co-developed with Hewlett-Packard, that will make Oracle a player in the ...

The Oracle database software and Exadata Storage Software are extra, as are the storage hardware and installation fees. The system is also offered in half-rack, quarter-rack and single-server ...

Althoff said the new appliance is positioned below the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, the company's high-end database server. Channel partners see a range of market opportunities for the product.

Product-wise, Oracle's DBaaS offering provides dedicated database instances of Oracle Database 11g or 12c running on Oracle VM virtualization. SPARC showcases hardware innovation.

Oracle has signed a deal to purchase Sun Microsystems for US$7.4 billion, plunging the enterprise software vendor into the hardware market and making Sun the latest company to be subsumed by the ...

The system is also offered in half-rack, quarter-rack and single-server configurations, however. The entry product starts at $115,000 for the database server hardware.