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Oracle in the present day unveiled the Exadata X11M, the newest in its line of high-performance home equipment for AI, analytics, and OLTP workloads. The corporate says the X11M will give prospects substantial speedups throughout the board on the similar beginning value because the Exadata equipment it replaces.
Primarily based on the newest era AMD EPYC processors and Oracle Database 23ai, the Exadata X11M is designed to deal with a number of the hardest AI and analytics masses that prospects can throw at it, from vector AI to massive desk scans for analytics.
Because of speedups within the processors, quicker flash drives, and higher software program, the X11M delivers huge efficiency features for purchasers, Oracle says, together with 55% quicker AI vector searches, 2.2X quicker analytics scan throughput, and 25% quicker transaction processing.
Digging into the tech specs reveals the supply of a number of the efficiency features, together with a 25% per-core efficiency enhance with the newest 96-core EPYC processors used within the Exadata X11M database servers and a 33% enhance in reminiscence bandwidth.
The Exadata X11M Excessive Capability (HC) Storage Server and Excessive Flash (EF) Storage Server home equipment, in the meantime, get an 11% bump in processing oomph due to utilizing the newest 32-core AMD CPUs, in addition to a 2.2x improve in flash throughput, due to Oracle transferring the 6.8 TB playing cards used for the Exadata Good Flash Cache to PCIe5.
Oracle additionally launched the Database Server X11M-Z as a brand new choice for on-prem Exadata deployments. This equipment makes use of a single 32-core AMD EPYC processor and both 768 GB or 1.25 TB of RAM (the common Database Server X11M will be outfitted with as much as 3TB of RAM). Huge Pink additionally launched the Excessive Capability X11M-Z Storage Server (HC-Z), which supplies prospects extra choice for giant deployments.
The Exadata X11M will be deployed on-prem or in any main cloud, together with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. That’s a serious profit to prospects, in response to Kothanda Umamageswaran, senior vp of Exadata and scale-out applied sciences at Oracle.
“With Oracle Exadata X11M, we proceed to supply prospects with excessive scale, efficiency, enterprise worth, and the selection and adaptability to deploy wherever they want,” Umamageswaran acknowledged in a press launch. “Whether or not upgrading an present system or deploying new functions on Exadata X11M, prospects profit from new ranges of value efficiency, consolidation, and effectivity with ensuing financial savings in {hardware}, energy and cooling, and information heart area.”
You may get discover data on the Exadata X11M enhancements by watching the Oracle launch video beneath.
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