The Oracle Database Appliance is “exciting stuff,” and brings “the benefits of Exadata to entry-level systems,” said co-president Mark Hurd during a webcast event Wednesday.

Oracle is hoping to capture the fancy of smaller companies enamored with its Exadata data-processing machine, announcing Wednesday the availability of a new database appliance configured for SMBs ...

The Oracle Database Appliance runs the similar software stack as found on Exadata, including the 11g database, RAC (Real Application Clusters) clustering software and Oracle Linux.

The appliance’s hardware components include two servers, 192GB of RAM, 24 cores, 12TB of raw disk storage and 292GB of solid-state disk. List price is US$50,000, with Oracle database licenses ...

What the Oracle Database Appliance provides in $50,000 box much more processing power and computing capability than even high-end mainframes that are less than a decade old. The servers support ...

The new Oracle Database Appliances are a single-socket model with a starting price of $24,600, and a dual-socket version that lists from $32,800.

The Oracle Database Appliance, designed for both online transaction processing (OLTP) and data warehousing applications, offers the kind of performance and high-availability previously offered ...

Oracle today announced Yodlee, the platform for global financial innovation, is successfully using the Oracle Database Appliance to support its international growth requirements.

Oracle has unveiled two new models of its Oracle Database Appliance, addressing the needs of small and mid-sized businesses. 'Many organizations do not have the time, resources or expertise to build ...

As a pre-built, pre-integrated system, the Oracle Database Appliance overcomes all that.” The Database Appliance’s four 200 GB solid state disks (SSDs) for database redo logs help ensure the database ...

On the upside, the Database Appliance has the advantage of being pretuned for Oracle's software, with relatively simple management software for configuration. But Oracle hasn't had a lot of ...