Category Archives: HANA

Inside Oracle Exalytics: Oracle shows its fear of SAP’s in-memory strategy

Posted on October 7, 2011 by

Oracle released its new in-memory analytics engine, Exalytics, at Oracle Open World 2011 this week. Media has been in a frenzy for the last 4 days and there are already over 1/4 million Google hits for Exalytics. It’s actually interesting … Continue reading →

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Oracle & SAP: sticks and stones may break my bones

Posted on October 5, 2011 by

… but as the saying goes, words will never hurt me. I bet if a SAP HANA or Oracle Exalytics box landed on your foot, it would hurt though. SAP created a new class of computing this year – it … Continue reading →

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SAP HANA vs Oracle Exalytics – the game is on

Posted on October 3, 2011 by

So Oracle announced Exalytics yesterday and I’ve spent much of today thinking about it in the back of my mind whilst I did my day job. It’s about the most interesting announcement of the tech world this year and it’s … Continue reading →

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SAP HANA and the death of the mainframe

Posted on September 7, 2011 by

Only ten years ago if you wanted to store a lot of data, you went and talked to one of a small number of vendors that sold equipment that would support it. You paid a handsome sume of money to … Continue reading →

Posted in HANA, Technology | 13 Comments