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Exadata X9M:Delivering Throughput and Efficiency AdvancesIn today’s data center and cloud environments, accelerating analytics and increasing consolidationare top priorities for IT and DB decision makers. Oracle Exadata X9M directly addresses thesedemands through the support of Intel Ice Lake 32-core CPUs in DB servers that deliver 33%more cores for parallel analytics and 64% more memory bandwidth. PCIe 4.0 flash cache inExadata storage servers enable 80% faster throughput which combine with enhanced automaticcolumnarization of data using vector processing formats in flash cache to deliver over 1 TB/secondof scan throughput for advanced analytics and in-database machine learning algorithms.The Exadata X9M’s use of two active 100 GB/sec RoCE networking connections on each DBand storage server increases throughput between them by 80%, significantly accelerating theaccumulation of scan results generated on storage servers on the DB servers and any subsequentprocessing. Taken together, these new enhancements deliver what we see as significant net newbenefits in the following areas compared to Exadata X8M: 87% higher throughput: Enables new data-intensive use cases. 47% lower scan costs: Brings Exadata capabilities to more customers. Expanded, swifter pooled resources: Enables improved real-time analytics inside OLTPapplications.When compared to Oracle Exadata X9M’s scale out architecture with massive parallelism, legacydo-it-yourself infrastructures that connect DB servers to block storage devices over FibreChannelare severely limited in terms of the latency, IOPS, and throughput they can deliver. All raw data inthese legacy environments must be shipped from the storage devices back to the DB servers forprocessing as opposed to Exadata’s approach of initially processing the data where it resides – onthe storage servers. We see Oracle Exadata X9M’s integrated architecture with massive parallelism,rapid PCIe flash, and the offloading of data-intensive operations to storage as delivering thethroughput and efficiency that organizations are looking for today to meet data-intensive analyticalrequirements.FASTER THAN FAST—ORACLE INTRODUCES EXADATA X9M PORTFOLIO6

Exadata X9M: Increasing Consolidation and Cost BenefitsExadata X9M enhancements also prioritize increasing scale and consolidation efficiency. HighCapacity and Extended Storage Servers now provide 28% more storage capacity by using 18TB disksinstead of 14TB disks at the same price to keep up with expanding database sizes and enable moredatabases to be consolidated on an Exadata single system. The previously mentioned 33% increasein database server CPU cores and memory coupled with the use of all-flash storage in those serverssupport more VMs per DB server which also increases the level of database consolidation thatcustomers can achieve. Also, Oracle Database’s converged DB capabilities allow customers to runany mix of OLTP, analytics, graph, spatial, and machine learning databases on the same system,further increasing the impact of DB consolidation.By combining these features, it’s obvious that Oracle is endeavoring to dramatically improve the costeffectiveness of its DB machine proposition. These cost improvements compared to Exadata X8Minclude: 42% less cost for OLTP IOPS & 47% less cost for analytics scans. More work per DB CPU: Reduces infrastructure size and license costs. Broader pooled resources: Increases DB and infrastructure consolidation resulting in loweroperational costs.By using Exadata X9M, organizations achieve definitive DB consolidation gains, avoiding theoperational risks and costs of managing and securing information on multiple platforms.FASTER THAN FAST—ORACLE INTRODUCES EXADATA X9M PORTFOLIO7

ExaC@C X9M: Meeting the Need for Data Sovereignty witha Cloud Database Service in Customer Data CentersOracle has ensured that all Exadata X9M enhancements are uniformly applied to its Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaC@C) X9M solution, fulfilling organizations’ growing demands for cloud benefits forDBs and workloads that they cannot move to the public cloud due to sovereignty laws, industryregulations, organizational policies, security policies, network latency, or complexity of migratinginterdependent databases and applications to a new environment. As an Oracle-managed service,Oracle Cloud operators access ExaC@C for maintenance. To further meet tight regulationsin industries such as financial services, Oracle provides operator access control that allows ITorganizations to control when Oracle Cloud operators can access systems, for how long, andwhat they can do while there with real-time session monitoring, logging, and session terminationcapabilities.With Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M, organizations can, at any time and without taking thedatabases offline, increase the amount of DB server resources that they consume to meet peakdaily or seasonal requirements or reduce them to control costs. This significantly reduces cloudconsumption costs because IT teams no longer need to overprovision resources to meet peakdemands for applications that cannot permit up to 30 minutes of downtime every time anunderlying compute shape is changed.The Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M enhancements axiomatically include Intel Ice Lake 32-coreCPUs in DB servers, Intel Ice Lake 24-core CPUs in storage servers, 28% more storage capacity(compared to ExaC@C X8M), 1.5TB DRAM per DB server, and the same 19 microseconds latencywith PMem and RoCE. We like the fact that these enhanced capabilities are all available at the sametime as Exadata X9M, while maintaining the same price as the ExaC@C X8M offering.As a result, customers gain immediate benefits in relation to ExaC@C X8M, such as up to 22.4M IOPS(an 87% boost), 540 GB/sec throughput (80% more), and 992 vCPUs worth of database compute(24% more). We view these capabilities as providing clear differentiation of the ExaC@C X9Msolution in relation to AWS Outposts with RDS (Relational Database Service). For example, Oracle’sminimum SQL read latency is 19 microseconds while RDS on AWS Outposts is a much lengthier1,000 microseconds, giving Oracle a fifty-fold advantage when accessing data. The ExaC@Csolution delivers 540 GB/S maximum throughput while RDS on AWS Output is limited to only 28.5GB/S, yielding Oracle an eighteen-fold throughput edge. Moreover, Oracle’s ExaC@C supportsonline scaling with no application downtime, no downtime for maintenance and upgrades, andapplication-transparent DB acceleration with PMem, whereas the RDS on AWS Output solution lacksall these functions and, as a result, is orders of magnitude slower.Whereas Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer is a strategic offering for Oracle, it’s not clear that otheron-premises cloud offerings such as AWS Outposts and Azure Stack are more than a checkbox forthose vendors.In further examining the area of DB functionality, we observe that Oracle ExaC@C X9M offers SQLoffload to up to 576 cores in intelligent storage servers. In contrast, AWS Outposts with RDS offersno intelligent storage capabilities and only limited operator access control. Moreover, we surmiseFASTER THAN FAST—ORACLE INTRODUCES EXADATA X9M PORTFOLIO8

RDS on AWS Outposts supports only MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server functions, but does notfor Redshift, Aurora, DynamoDB, Document DB (Mongo DB), Keyspaces (Cassandra), Neptune(Graph), and Timestream (Time series) – or Oracle Database, whereas Oracle Database’s convergeddatabase capabilities meets these customer needs.Oracle ExaC@C X9M fulfills the top priority demands of customers who require and decide toimplement public cloud infrastructure with managed cloud database services in their data centers.These customer fulfillment benefits compared to ExaC@C X8M include: Up to 80% faster throughput and 87% higher IOPS: The dual improvements can run anydatabase workload faster or reduce costs of running those workloads by up to 47%. Elastic storage expansion: Up to 45% lower infrastructure costs for data-intensive workloads. Operator Access Control: Increases security in regulated settings.Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M allows organizations to deploy industry-leading databaseperformance in their data centers, enabling them to run applications faster while lowering costs andmaintaining full control of their data to meet data sovereignty and security requirements. We seeOracle ExaC@C X9M attaining clear competitive differentiation against AWS RDS on AWS Outpostsacross key performance and capabilities categories, further enhancing the complete Exadataproposition.FASTER THAN FAST—ORACLE INTRODUCES EXADATA X9M PORTFOLIO9

Autonomous Database on ExaC@C X9M:Lowering Costs with a Self-driving DatabaseIt appears that Oracle is further broadening the addressable market of the Exadata X9M portfolioby running Autonomous Database (ADB) on ExaC@C X9M, with the solution providing dedicated,secure resources, fully automated management, and cost-conscious automatic scaling ofDB consumption pricing. The Autonomous DB capabilities encompass Oracle’s AutonomousTransaction Processing and Autonomous Data Warehouse cloud services and provide machinelearning based automatic scaling, tuning, patching, and securing of the database along with AutoMLenhanced analytics and other Autonomous-only capabilities.This is particularly important for organizations looking to adopt Autonomous Database, as thecomprehensive set of autonomous capabilities assures customers that maximum performance isattainable, full data sovereignty is safeguarded, and the built-in auto-scaling of DB consumptionreduces the cost of running databases in all scenarios.FASTER THAN FAST—ORACLE INTRODUCES EXADATA X9M PORTFOLIO10

Recovery Appliance X9M Enhancements:Strengthening Oracle Database ProtectionAdditional enhancements to ExaC@C X9M incorporate backup to Oracle’s Zero Data Loss RecoveryAppliance (Recovery Appliance), which protect and archive data in customer DCs and AutonomousData Guard, which enables a new service with streamlined setup and management. In addition,Oracle DB Shared Server provides the Use Shared Server feature for legacy apps to reduceconnection counts and customer managed keys with OKV single instance that simplifies encryptionkey management.In addition, Oracle’s next generation Recovery Appliance X9M delivers a 30% increase in backupcapacity by replacing the 14 TB drives found in ZDLRA X8M systems with 18TB drives, allowingorganizations to protect more DBs with longer retention periods with a “Base rack” configurationproviding 207TB of physical capacity, 2PB effective backups, and 15TB/hour restore rates. A “Fullrack” configuration supports more than 1 PB physical capacity, 13 PB of effective backups, and a24TB/hour restore rate. Recovery Appliance X9M also lowers the solution’s entry price by up to50% for Base rack configurations resulting in substantially lower per-Terabyte cost for protecteddatabases since all configurations are created by starting with the Base rack. This new entry priceexpands the addressable market for Recovery Appliance to medium and smaller-sized organizationsAdditional enhancements to ExaC@C X9M incorporate backup to Oracle’s Zero Data Loss RecoveryAppliance (Recovery Appliance), which protect and archive data in customer DCs and AutonomousData Guard, which enables a new service with streamlined setup and management. In addition,Oracle DB Shared Server provides the Use Shared Server feature for legacy apps to reduceconnection counts and customer managed keys with OKV single instance that simplifies encryptionkey management.In addition, Oracle’s next generation Recovery Appliance X9M delivers a 30% increase in backupcapacity by replacing the 14 TB drives found in ZDLRA X8M systems with 18TB drives, allowingorganizations to protect more DBs with longer retention periods with a “Base rack” configurationproviding 207TB of physical capacity, 2PB effective backups, and 15TB/hour restore rates. A “Fullrack” configuration supports more than 1 PB physical capacity, 13 PB of effective backups, and a24TB/hour restore rate. Recovery Appliance X9M also lowers the solution’s entry price by up to50% for Base rack configurations resulting in substantially lower per-Terabyte cost for protecteddatabases since all configurations are created by starting with the Base rack. This new entry priceexpands the addressable market for Recovery Appliance to medium and smaller-sized organizationsFASTER THAN FAST—ORACLE INTRODUCES EXADATA X9M PORTFOLIO11

Conclusion and RecommendationsIn summary, we believe the new Exadata X9M integrated solution delivers higher performance anda broader range of capabilities across all Oracle DB workloads than anything else in the marketthat runs on-premises—be it a cloud on-premises or a typical server, ensuring that customers gainsignificantly more value. In the area of performance, Exadata X9M provides the 19 microsecondlatency, increased OLTP IOPS, accelerated analytics throughput—orders of magnitude faster thanAWS Outposts and Azure Stack—and enhanced Smart Scan capabilities that DB and IT decisionmakers prioritize.For enhanced software requirements, customers can use Autonomous Database on ExaC@C X9M,operator access control, enhanced notifications, faster decryption, and faster updates, all of whichare vital to meeting fast-evolving customer administration and security demands. Finally, the newsolution lowers TCO by allowing customers to achieve higher levels of consolidation, use lessinfrastructure, reduce database license requirements, lower costs across key metrics, and achieveoperational and consumption savings that are valued in all DC environments—all at the same priceas the previous X8M generation. That’s significantly more bang for the customer’s buck.The overall Exadata X9M proposition directly addresses the underlying issues that cause the mostproblems and disruption for DB customers. The Oracle X9M furnishes the scale-out hardware,DB-aware software intelligence, automated management capabilities, and architectural identicalitythat make the new solution worthy of top consideration in the successful transformation of DBtechnology across all environments. Running Oracle Database on anything other than an X9M is thefunctional equivalent of trying to put a Tesla operating system in a Dodge Hellcat—it’ll operate indegraded mode and it’s far too advanced for the underlying, aging hardware to handle.DB Decision Makers Must Consider Oracle Exadata X9M. DB decision makers must consider thenew Oracle X9M solution, since it provides the superior architecture, enhanced software, and elasticscaling of DB resources that are essential to ensuring top performance and lowering TCO within anyDB environment.DB and IT Decision Makers Considering AWS RDS on Outposts or Azure Stack Must Look atExaC@C X9M. DB decision makers should compare the complexity, costs, and lack of functionalityand performance when considering RDS on AWS Outposts. We identify Oracle ExaC@C X9M ashaving a definite competitive edge especially in areas like minimum SQL read latency, maximum SQLthroughput, and crucial areas of cloud database functionality such as supporting online scaling withno application downtime and avoiding downtime for maintenance and upgrades.Evaluate Autonomous Database on ExaC@C Credentials. DB administrators and decision makersneed to consider the ability to blend Autonomous Database, Exadata X9M, and OCI automation,security, and economics into one package by running Autonomous Database on ExaC@C X9M. Thisincludes mitigating human errors with autonomous operations and providing comprehensive datasovereignty and low-latency application-tier connectivity in customer DCs. No other vendor canmatch this combination and Exadata is strategic for Oracle and a core enabler for their substantialcloud progress.FASTER THAN FAST—ORACLE INTRODUCES EXADATA X9M PORTFOLIO12

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A review of Oracle’s Exadata architecture and software approach provides the foundation for discerning why Oracle’s new Exadata X9M solution delivers substantial improvements over the Exadata X