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 ...

Oracle Tuesday rolled out an updated Oracle Database Appliance, called the X3-2, which adds virtualization to a product that combines database software with server, storage and networking, all in ...

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.

Back in 1997, Ellison touted "server appliances" that bypassed operating systems by using a micro-kernel and "essentially running Oracle's database program on hardware." ...

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.

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.

He’s now CTO and executive chairman. He introduced several updated systems in a family called X5, Oracle’s fifth generation of hardware since it bought Sun’s server business.

To that end, Oracle recently introduced a product called Big Data SQL, now a part of its Oracle Big Data Appliance – a hardware and software solution for Big Data.

In addition to this NoSQL database, the Oracle Big Data appliance will also include the Apache open-source distribution of Hadoop and various Oracle-designed tools meant for use with the platform ...

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 ...