Exalytics X5-4 Fast and Furious

I love going to KScope because I learn about new features and products. This event was no different. In the Sunday symposiums with Oracle there was a discussion on the new Exalytics X5-4. It was only Sept last year at Open World when the X4-4  was announced . Edward Roske talks about it in his Blog. It was a big deal then. With the introduction of the X5-4 only 9 months later it becomes even bigger, better and “Badder”. With the X5-4 we go to a max of 72 cores, up from 60 and more memory. In addition to more cores, the X5-4 supports a new NvMe High bandwidth flash technology that improves throughput by 2.5 times. I won’t bore you with the details if you want to read about them , here are the specs

To me the most remarkable thing about this is you get more and the price has not increased. All of the way back to the X3-4 the price has remained the same. With a list price of $175K it is what I consider cheap.

As John Booth mentions in his Blog, you can get this as an X5-2 configuration as well offering additional flexibility. Note I had a correction from John. The X5-2 was more a wish from him than a reality. While you could create a X5-2 using sub-capacity licensing, you are still paying for the physical cores (Thanks Steve Libermensch for that clarification)

For us in EPM it keeps getting better and better.