Introduction Oracle constantly introduces new Exadata Platforms providing higher performance, lower latency, extended storage, and optimized software and networking. The latest Exadata X9M generation is available on-premises, cloud@customer, and public cloud. AND, it comes at the same price as the previous generation!!! It is as simple as this: higher performance + same price = reduced…
Introduction Oracle Exadata Database Machine is an optimized system specifically developed to run Oracle Databases providing high availability, high capacity, cost efficiency, and superior performance. It uses unique and intelligent Exadata software and ultra-fast internal network fabric supporting every kind of application workload. So it is little surprise that Oracle uses Exadata as their ONLY…
Introduction Oracle Databases in Oracle Cloud use Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) by default to protect data at rest. The default configuration “Oracle-Managed Keys” stores the master encryption keys in a wallet file locally on the database servers. Now, Oracle also supports the integration with the OCI Vault Service, where you are able to create and…
Introduction As IT environments are growing and becoming more complex, the need for standardization, cost reduction, and greater agility is raising more than ever. Cloud solutions provide customers with features and capabilities to exactly achieve these goals and satisfy their business demands. When it comes to moving Oracle databases to the cloud, you might ask…
Introduction After covering how to use the OCI CLI and Custom Database Software Images to patch and upgrade databases on VM DB Systems in the previous blogs, we are now going to see how to do this on Exadata systems. Exadata systems allow to provision multiple database homes of different software versions and having multiple…
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