Oracle’s Exadata innuendo
During todays conference organized by Brocade and called “Brocade Extraordinary Networks 2009”, I couldn’t leave unnoticed a presentation made by Sun Microsystem’s Senior Systems Architect in CIS region Vitaly Soloviev about recently announced Exadata V2. Though I learnt nothing new, there was one thing that drew my attention so now I couldn’t get it out of my head – answering a question from the audience “if it’s doable to use another Exadata rack on the remote site and make the two highly available to tolerate the failures and does such built-in feature ever exist” Vitaly replied he wasn’t eligible to answer such questions and we just should be patient. Lets wait and see, what else Oracle keeps under its sleeve…