NEW DELHI: Oracle claimed it is experiencing strong demand for its Exadata database machines in India. However, the company did not disclose the number of machines sold so far in India.
Exadata database machines are a part of Oracle's engineered systems family, which are designed to help organizations simplify their IT infrastructure.
In past couple of years, Oracle registered a triple digit growth in sales of Exadata. It has so far sold nearly 2000 machines in 67 countries, including India, making it the fastest growing product in Oracle's 32 years of existence.
"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 data warehousing applications, whilst simplifying the deployment and management of their IT infrastructure" said Christopher G. Chelliah, vice-president, Exadata and strategic solutions, Oracle Asia Pacific.
In India, Oracle Exadata has been adopted by customers across industries like telecom, banking financial services and insurance (BFSI), pharmaceutical and manufacturing. Some of its biggest customers in past one year were Mahindra Satyam, Religare, Reliance Commercial Finance, MTS, Bank of Baroda and Stock Holding Corporation.
"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 had launched Exadata database machines three years ago as its first converged infrastructure offering, which comes pre-configured with hardware and software engineered to work together. Exadata can run Oracle database applications seamlessly without lengthy and expensive project run times, thus promising a better ROI (return on income) for customers within a 12-18 month timeframe.
In RDBMS (relational database management system) market, Oracle claims to enjoys leadership in market share both in India and globally. As per the Gartner 2011 Worldwide RDBMS Market Share Report, Oracle has 48.8 per cent market share based on total software revenue. Oracle grew at 18 per cent, exceeding both the industry average (16.3 per cent) and its closest competitors. Its market share is more than the next four competitors combined in the RDBMS market, as per the report.
RDBMS is a database management system based on a relational model. Most popular databases currently in use are based on this model.
Over the years, the vast majority of enterprise IT architectures have dealt with piecemeal technology solutions. IT departments have put together layers of products and services that often don't integrate, leaving the organizations with a complex IT infrastructure. Some analysts estimate as much as 80% of the yearly IT budget of organizations is spent in ongoing operations and maintenance, leaving too little money to invest in innovation.
Oracle family of engineered systems includes Exadata database machine, Exalogic Elastic Cloud, SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, Exalytics In-Memory machine and database appliance.