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Glad you made it to CC!

so is this a software engineering innovation or both hardware and software?

Exa storage cells have both SW & HW engineered innovations including smartscan, query offload, HCC, etc.

Love the "new strategy" - highest performance lowest cost - always a crowd favorite

How are the #Exa storage cells priced? by the GB, by the server core? If the server core, didn't the cost go up since they are now using 18 cores per socket or 36 cores per server?

More databases on the same system!

can you elaborate - what are the implications for DBAs?

@dvellante you can pay db licenses for just the subset of cores you need, pay as you grow and use the rest of the capacity for general purpose VMs. supercluster is exadata++

@dvellante also, if you are migrating from older sparc systems you have the choice of simply forklifting the old systems 1-to-1 or migrate them to the exadata stuff. all on the same box

have you seen flash also reduce the # of cores you need to deploy? And hence DB license and maint fees?

@dvellante and you also get the most memory per CPU socket on the market

A lot of the Oracle Engineered Systems "secret sauce" tech is in the Exa storage cells. #unique competitive advantage

@dvellante yes and no. modern cpus can drive an insane amount of work, bottleneck has typically been storage and io bandwidth. flash (and large memory) is pushing the frontier back towards CPUs

and actually, I believe that CPU memory I/O bandwidth is becoming a challenge especially as we move to in-memory Database & applications

If the current #Intel & #SPARC servers have roughly 30 - 60 GB/s of memory bandwidth as Juan said, can we expect #M7 to have something more competitive like #Power8 192 GB/s per socket?

Just to keep you honest, #Power8 delivers 1 TB/socket today which is what the M6-32 offers.

Power8 has only 16 dimm slots/CPU & 2 memory controllers requiring 2x greater dimm size to match SPARC M6 1TB/socket having 4 memory controllers & 2x more dimm slots/CPU. larger dimms always higher $/GB

I would argue the game is shifting to smaller footprints in datacenter and more in cloud; so hybrid is key

and here is the updated economics of all-flash arrays from a recent @dfloyer article http://wikibon.org/w...

marginal costs going to zero??

Does this mean the #Oracle #FS1 will soon be EOL'd?

all flash array finally made it to the market; John Fowler just told me his and Larry's goal is not to be #2 but #1 period!

This is the way of the feature, can't beat the speed gains you get from flash array.

Does this use SSD form factor flash or DRAM based (i.e. memory module) flash? If SSD, doesn't that still limit the flash performance?

database optimization is about enable real time mobile & scaling the legacy data warehouse & OLTP systems

Who are the competition and do you have benchmarks?

@PowerMan_SIS Intel, EMC, VMWare, Cisco? @neilmendelson any incite?