More customers have begun to look at Exadata since the announcement last autumn and I have been teaching the Oracle Exadata Seminar this year to both an EMEA Audience and audiences in North America.

Exadata permits intelligent offloading of certain types of IO to the Cells where it is processed locally reducing the amount of traffic on the storage network and thereby reducing contention, latency and improving performance. Exadata can offload the following:

To read the entire article at its source, please refer to Measuring Exadata Offload Efficiency