Oracle today announced that it is experiencing strong demand for its Exadata Database Machine across the world, including India. With total installations approaching 2000 machines in 67 countries across 23 industries, Exadata is the fastest growing product in Oracle's 32 years of business. The company is seeing significant acceleration in Exadata business with triple digit growth in seven of past eight quarters. Exadata is a part of Oracle's Engineered Systems family, which are designed to help organizations simplify IT.
"We continue to convert the strong market demand as more and more organizations are turning to Oracle Exadata to enhance performance, reliability and scalability of their online transaction processing (OLTP) and datawarehousing applications, whilst simplifying the deployment and management of their IT infrastructure" said Christopher G. Chelliah Vice President, Exadata and Strategic Solutions Oracle Asia Pacific.
"We started selling Exadata in India around a year and a half back. In this short period, we have seen a very solid traction for this product from all industry verticals, across all regions in the country. Customers who are already running Oracle database are looking at Exadata very closely." said Sheshagiri Anegondi, Vice -President, Technology Business, Oracle India.
Oracle transformed the dynamics of the enterprise IT industry three years ago with the launch of the first converged infrastructure offering in the form of Exadata Database Machine, which comes pre-configured with hardware and software engineered to work together. The Exadata Database Machine can be implemented seamlessly for Oracle database applications without lengthy and expensive project runtimes, often returning a positive ROI for customers within a 12-18 month timeframe.
Commenting on the company's strategy to drive sales for Exadata in India, Sheshagiri disclosed that Oracle will continue to leverage its leadership position in the database market to further enhance adoption of Exadata in India.
Oracle enjoys market share leadership globally as well as in India in the RDBMS market. As per the recently released 'Gartner 2011 Worldwide RDBMS Market Share Reports', Oracle has 48.8 percent market share based on total software revenue. Oracle grew at 18 percent, exceeding both the industry average (16.3 percent) and the growth rates of its closest competitors.
Some of the India-based ISV applications certified on Exadata are CMC's Genisys Configurator (application used to define new insurance products, make changes to existing products and establish rules that govern the products behavior), Connectiva (billing solution for utilities & telecom cos.) and ElectraCard Services' electraSWITCH (Payment solutions for Fortune 500 companies, one of the oldest payment systems in India). Infosys, Wipro, Accelfrontline and HCL are few of the leading SIs in India to have acquired Exadata Specialisation status. In addition, India's leading IT services firm, Tata Consultancy Services last month announced opening of its Center of Excellence (CoE) for Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
As part of the Oracle Exastack Program, Oracle's partners have set-up Technology Centers enabling ISVs and other members of OPN to test and tune their applications on the latest major release of Oracle Exadata component products, including Oracle Database and Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux and Oracle VM to achieve Oracle Exadata Ready status. These products provide partners with a lower cost and high performance infrastructure for database and application workloads across on-premise and cloud-based environments. "Oracle's Database Machine not only offers enormous opportunity for us but also offers huge incremental revenue opportunities for our partners. We're offering our partners every possible support to help them move up the value chain and gain a competitive edge in the market. Along with our partners, we are making a significant investment in building a strong ecosystem of solutions and services around Exadata for our customers." Said Sheshagiri.
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