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Oracle Database Appliance is the easiest and most affordable way for small- and medium- sized organizations and business units, including those with distributed locations, to deploy and manage their databases, applications, and infrastructure. With it, you can develop innovative AI applications that work with your data, reduce Oracle Database deployment times, and simplify management using a database-optimized engineered system with end-to-end automation. Oracle Database Appliance’s high performance, availability, and automation help you run crucial applications faster, with less downtime and at a lower cost.

Why choose Oracle Database Appliance

Appliance simplicity

Unique end-to-end automation makes it simple to deploy, operate, and support the full database software and hardware stack.

High reliability and security

Unique integration with Oracle Database increases reliability and security through outages and updates.

Low total costs

Unique automation, optimization, and software licensing greatly reduce capital, labor, and maintenance costs.

Oracle Database Appliance customer successes

  • Electrohuila

    Using Oracle Database Appliance, the Colombian electrical utility cut from 12 hours to only 2 the time it takes to analyze key customer data each day.

  • Hill Brothers

    Puerto Rico-based food-distribution company deploys Oracle Database Appliance and achieves 99.9% hardware availability.

  • The payments processor uses Oracle Database Appliance to handle payments in 0.003 seconds with 99.99% availability and increases the shift to digital transactions for Mexican merchants.

  • By moving its PeopleSoft workload to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), district cuts IT infrastructure and facility costs by 75% with zero downtime.

Oracle Database Appliance benefits

  • Increased innovation with Oracle Database 23ai

    Easily bring AI-powered similarity search to your business data with a single converged database. Combine similarity search with relational, text, JSON, spatial, and graph data types to enhance your apps. Bring AI to your data—don’t move your data for AI.

  • Faster to deploy than DIY solutions

    You can accelerate the availability of new services in remote offices and edge environments by deploying Oracle Database Appliance in 2 hours, which is 10X faster than DIY solutions, according to an analysis by Dragon Slayer Consulting (PDF).

  • License costs aligned with database workload demands

    With Oracle Database Appliance, Oracle Database licensing starts from as few as two CPU cores. This reduces your costs when compared with DIY solutions that require all CPU cores to be licensed.

  • High availability for Oracle Databases and applications

    Oracle Database Appliance optimizes the availability of your crucial Oracle Database instances with redundant, highly available hardware and Oracle Real Application Clusters support in high availability configurations.

  • Simplified data protection in the cloud

    Appliance Manager automates backing up and archiving of databases to local external storage or in OCI to protect information generated in remote offices and edge environments.

January 7, 2025

Oracle Database Appliance X11 – The world's only appliance designed for Oracle database

Chris Craft, Paul Tsien, Shruti Sriram, Carlos Ortiz

We are pleased to announce the next-generation Oracle Database Appliance X11. Designed by the best Oracle experts, the Oracle Database engineering team, and evolving to meet the demands of modern IT, Oracle Database Appliance X11 continues to provide:

  • Appliance Simplicity: unique end-to-end automation makes it simple to deploy, operate, and support the full database software and hardware stack
  • Highest Reliability and Security: unique integration with Oracle database ensures security and availability through all types of outages and updates
  • Lowest Cost: Unique automation, optimization, and software licensing greatly reduce capital, labor, and maintenance costs
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