Oracle Exadata has long been trusted as a high-performance database management platform built for simplicity at scale. As enterprises face explosive data growth, increasing data diversity, and the rapid adoption of digital and cloud technologies, modernizing database operations has become essential to sustaining innovation. To meet these demands, Oracle introduces its latest evolution, Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M.
Deployed securely behind the customer’s data center firewall, Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M delivers the full public cloud experience while accelerating time to value from enterprise data. At the same time, it helps organizations meet strict governance, compliance, and data security requirements.
Because Exadata Cloud@Customer is built on the same proven architecture as on-premises Exadata systems, organizations can modernize with confidence without moving sensitive data outside their data centers.
So, what are the key challenges of database management today, and how does Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M address them? Here is a closer look.
Database Management Challenges in Today’s Era
The explosive growth in data volume, variety, and velocity has become one of the biggest challenges in modern database management. According to official Oracle insights citing Statista research, there are several major challenges organizations face today.
Exploding Data Volumes
In recent years, Statista has recorded a sharp increase in global data volumes, significantly intensifying the complexity of data storage and management solutions.
Increasingly Sophisticated Cyber Threats
Cyberattacks targeting databases are becoming more advanced, more damaging, and more frequent, increasing the overall risk exposure for enterprises.
The Need for Stronger Protection
IT teams are under growing pressure to deliver stronger data protection, secure access controls, and real-time analytics capabilities.
Analytics and Data Visualization Tools
Organizations require advanced tools to access, evaluate, manipulate, analyze, and act on data across different formats and sources.
Data Governance and Privacy
Governance and privacy have become top priorities as regulatory requirements and security concerns continue to intensify.
Data Not Yet Treated as a Critical Asset
In many cases, data is still not managed with sufficient rigor, leaving it vulnerable to unauthorized access and misuse.
Data as the New Oil
Data has become the “new oil” of the digital era—one of the most valuable assets for modern enterprises. To unlock its full potential, data must be protected with strict controls and managed effectively so it can be transformed into revenue-generating products and services.
This makes it clear that optimizing data usage is no longer solely the responsibility of IT teams. Data optimization must deliver measurable business value while directly addressing customer and operational challenges.
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Challenges Faced by Customers
Behind these broader database management challenges, Oracle also identifies several common issues experienced by customers:
- Applications slow down as stored data continues to grow.
- Lengthy transaction times reduce productivity and customer satisfaction.
- Analytics on large datasets take too long to deliver insights.
- Applications cannot always reliably access databases.
- Database growth drives ongoing infrastructure expansion.
- Databases cannot move seamlessly between on-premises and cloud environments.
- Database environments require increasing management effort.
- Database costs remain high and difficult to control.
Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M as a Database Management Solution
To overcome these challenges, Oracle introduces Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M—a database management solution that brings Exadata’s proven architecture into the cloud while remaining fully consistent with on-premises deployments.
Organizations can preserve their existing IT environments while adopting a more future-ready solution. From a performance perspective, Exadata X9M delivers significantly higher performance than its predecessor, X8M, enabling organizations to run demanding workloads at a lower cost per transaction. Below are some of the key performance and analytics advantages of Exadata X9M.
70% Increase in Database Use Cases
Transactional and hybrid database use cases increase by up to 70%, reaching 27.6 million SQL IOPS per rack. This is especially valuable for organizations that require extreme transaction throughput or real-time data integration.
42% Lower Cost per SQL IOPS
Exadata X9M offers up to 42% lower cost per SQL IOPS, making it more affordable for organizations running intensive transactional workloads.
Analytics Throughput Up to 1TB per Second
Exadata X9M delivers up to 1TB per second of SQL analytics throughput per rack—an 87% improvement. This enables advanced use cases such as predictive analytics, trading, financial services, and fraud detection using real-time data streams across IoT, machine learning, and graph analytics environments.
47% Lower Scan Costs
Lower scan costs make advanced analytics more accessible, even for new applications and organizations operating at smaller scales.
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Get Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M with MBT
Now is the time for your organization to confidently handle the challenges of growing data volume, variety, and velocity with Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer from Mega Buana Teknologi (MBT). Optimize your database management environment faster and more cost-effectively.
As an authorized Oracle Advanced Partner, MBT supports organizations across the full database lifecycle from consultation and deployment to ongoing management and after-sales support. Our certified and experienced IT professionals are ready to help you address complex technical challenges at every stage.
For more information about Oracle Exadata, contact marketing@megabuana.id.
Author: Ervina Anggraini
Content Writer CTI Group
