The Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service (Exadata Service) delivers the world’s best Cloud Database Platform by combining the world’s #1 database with Exadata, the most powerful database platform, and adding all the simplicity and cost effectiveness of the public cloud. Customers can now run Oracle databases in the cloud with the same extreme performance and availability experienced by thousands of organizations deploying Exadata on-premises. Oracle databases deployed in the cloud as part of this service include all Oracle Database options. They are 100% compatible with those deployed on-premises, ensuring a smooth transition to the cloud, and an efficient hybrid cloud strategy. With pay-as you-grow dedicated Exadata configurations, and infrastructure managed by Oracle experts, Exadata Service enables business agility and operational flexibility with zero CapEx. Best Database on Best Cloud Platform Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service (Exadata Service) uniquely combines the world’s #1 database technology and the most powerful database platform, with the agility and elasticity of a cloud-based deployment. Best Database Technology Oracle Database is the most popular and most versatile database technology for both OLTP and Analytics. With 35+ years of technology innovation, it has been proven at millions of mission-critical deployments around the world. Exadata Service makes this enterprise-proven, robust database technology available in the Cloud. All of Oracle’s industry leading capabilities are included in the Exadata Service, such as In-Memory Database, Real Application Clusters (RAC), Active Data Guard, Automatic Storage Management (ASM), Partitioning, Advanced Compression, Advanced Security, Database Vault, Real Application Testing, OLAP, Analytics, Spatial and Graph. Also available is Oracle Multitenant, which allows an Oracle container database to hold many pluggable databases, enabling high consolidation density, rapid provisioning and cloning, efficient patching and upgrades, and significantly simplified database management. Most Powerful Database Platform The platform that delivers Exadata Service is Oracle Exadata, which has been established as the highest performing, most cost effective and most available platform for running Oracle Database. Exadata was designed from the beginning as a cloud architecture featuring scale-out database servers and scale-out intelligent storage 2 | ORACLE DATABASE CLOUD EXADATA SERVICE ORACLE DATA SHEET KEYBUSNIESS BENEFITS Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service delivers the performance and availability of Exadata for running Oracle Database and mission-critical applications on the Oracle Public Cloud • Quick, simple provisioning of Oracle Databases with all features and options, with the agility of the Oracle Cloud and robustness of Exadata platform • Affordable elastic configurations with pay as you grow expandability • Requires no application changes • No IT management overhead with Oracle experts taking care of managing the backend infrastructure • Zero CapEx servers connected by an ultra-fast InfiniBand network. Exadata includes state-of-theart PCI flash storage to deliver the highest throughput and best response times along with high capacity disks and database-optimized compression to provide cost effective capacity for the largest databases. Unique software algorithms in Exadata bring database intelligence to storage, PCI flash, and InfiniBand networking for higher performance and capacity at lower costs than other platforms. Deployed at thousands of sites around the world, Exadata delivers extreme performance for all types of database workloads including Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Data Warehousing (DW), In-Memory Analytics and consolidation of mixed workloads. For additional information on Exadata, please visit http://www.oracle.com/exadata. Best Cloud Offering for an Enterprise Database On top of the rock-solid Oracle Database and Exadata platform, Exadata Service adds the ease, simplicity and flexibility of Oracle Public Cloud. Organizations can now access Oracle Database on Oracle Exadata without capital investments for IT infrastructure such as data center space, power, cooling, compute servers, storage and networks. Oracle experts manage all backend infrastructure on behalf of customers, which means human resources and IT administration costs are significantly reduced, and IT can focus on improving business results. Full Oracle Database functionality with Exadata Service ensures that any existing application can be quickly migrated to the cloud without changes. Provisioning and expanding the Exadata Service is driven through simple web interfaces, providing customers rapid elasticity to meet changing business demands. An Exadata Service provisioned for one customer is completely isolated from other tenants, providing assured performance and security for business critical workloads. Customer Benefits Exadata Service is 100% compatible with on-premises Oracle databases and all existing applications. With Exadata Service, organizations can easily embark on a pure cloud or hybrid cloud strategy that spans on-premises databases as well as databases in the Cloud. Exadata Service offers immediate business benefits to a broad range of customers: • Exadata Service enables existing on-premises Exadata customers to easily embark on a journey to the cloud – without compromising the database performance and availability levels they enjoy with their on-premises Exadata deployments. • Existing Oracle Database customers who have not yet experienced Exadata can easily start enjoying the performance, availability and scalability benefits of the world’s best database platform – without losing any of the database functionality they rely on. • Organizations that have been forced to settle for public cloud databases with limited functionality and compromised data consistency can now benefit from the most sophisticated database functionality on the most powerful cloud database platform. Service Overview Exadata Service enables fully featured Oracle Databases to run on the Exadata platform in the Oracle Public Cloud. Exadata Service instances come pre-configured according to best-practices that have been proven at thousands of mission critical Exadata sites around the world.