Oracle offers price-performance boost with Exadata X11M update [Video]

Oracle says its new Exadata database compute platform will run generative AI workloads faster for the same price as the old version.

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The new version of Oracle’s Exadata platform, X11M, is now generally available, and promises improved performance on generative AI tasks such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for the same price as the old version.

Exadata is Oracle’s hardware and software platform for running Oracle Database workloads on premises or in hybrid- and multi-cloud environments. The previous version, X10M, was released in June 2023, just as demand for generative AI was taking off, and some of the changes in the latest version address the needs of that market.

“The improvements inside X11M that support handling vector indexes faster at scale will help enterprises take on more demanding and complex generative AI use cases, such as advanced RAG and inferencing workloads that involve multi-step semantic search, adversarial guardrails, and agentic processeswith less hardware than before,” …