Oracle unveiled two new models of its Oracle Database Appliance to bring the performance and reliability of Oracle's Engineered Systems to small and mid-sized businesses. It is a move aimed to enable the businesses to simplify their journey to the cloud. The focal point of launching new versions of the ODA is support for the
Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 and Oracle Database Enterprise Edition.
As it is an a pre-integrated solution that is optimized for the database and the cloud, it eases problem of many organizations that do not have the time, resources, or expertise to build their own system and often struggle managing different platforms and systems.
Karen Sigman, VP, Converged Infrastructure, Oracle said,
“Many organizations do not have the time, resources or expertise to build their own system and often struggle managing different platforms and systems. By offering a pre-integrated solution that is optimized for the database and the cloud, Oracle allows organizations of all sizes to free up their IT staff from maintenance and other routine tasks to focus on innovation and core business processes.”
With a starting price of $18,000 for new entry level database appliance for single or small database instances; reduced time to value with fast deployment; a range of Database Appliances that are designed to run single instance databases; database consolidation of multiple databases; high availability designs and many more; Oracle Database Appliance is amazing.