Oracle has introduced Oracle Exadata Version 2, the only online transaction processing machine, in the Indian market. The new machine is targeted at enterprises in the manufacturing, government, telecom, financial and public sectors to efficiently process terabytes of data, and push that data through storage networks to achieve the performance necessary for database applications. Exadata helps in creating a more coherent data environment, It helps IT managers to assess and analyze both performance and results. It also eliminates the complexity of deploying database systems. The new database machine goes beyond data warehousing applications. The addition of Exadata Smart Flash Cache based on Sun FlashFire technology delivers extreme performance and scalability for online transaction processing (OLTP). Oracle Exadata Smart Flash Cache addresses the random disk I/O bottleneck by transparently moving “hot data” to Sun FlashFire cards. Oracle claims that it's customers can store more than ten-times the amount of data and search data more than ten-times faster without making any changes to applications. The componentized, massively parallel architecture of the machine allows it to be expanded incrementally by adding storage servers, database servers, and network switches to its fault-tolerant grid architecture. Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Servers provide a high-bandwidth, massively parallel solution delivering up to 50 GB per second of raw I/O bandwidth and up to 1,000,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS). “Some of the world’s largest databases reside in India. Coupled with the breadth and depth of the SI and ISV community and their familiarity of Oracle Database here, it is no wonder that we have already seen successful Oracle Exadata Database Machine implementations undertaken by the top Indian SIs in overseas markets,” said Chris Chelliah, Senior Director & Chief Architect, Appliance and Strategic Solutions, Oracle Corporation, Asia Pacific Division. “By tapping their existing Oracle skillsets to build implementation services for industries such as financial services, communications, healthcare and the public sector, our partners can achieve a better return and lower risk at the same time by adopting this solution.” Oracle claims that this new machine is four times faster than its compititors and costs four times less. It also claims that there is no single point of failure in this box. Which means that any of the components can fail, and the machine keeps running. Customers across the globe have chosen Oracle® Exadata to deliver extreme performance for their data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP) environments. Customers are seeing immediate and tremendous gains in performance, high availability and manageability for their mission critical databases with Exadata V2. This has lead to a keen interest from customers for Exadata related services such as - Implementation, Migration, Management, and Server Consolidation.