Oracle Exadata is the backbone of the Oracle database in the public and private cloud. A large section of the Oracle Public and Private Cloud runs on Exadata. Most of the Oracle Cloud Database services run on Exadata. Most Oracle Cloud Apps also run on Exadata.

Exadata provides the best parallel, distributed platform for the Oracle database. Exadata integrates with the database SQL processing and distributes and parallelizes query processing across all the storage nodes. Exadata provides cloud scale distributed file system; volume management.

Exadata smart software seamlessly plugs with the Oracle database and provides database functionality offloaded to storage. It automatically reformats data and stores it in the best format based on usage patterns. It does resource management on the storage. It manages data across multiple storage hardware tiers and automatically moves them through these layers based on usage patterns.

Exadata team is responsible for the development of these innovative technologies that power the entire Exadata family of systems for running databases, backup appliance, big data SQL (Hadoop), etc. We are proud and excited to make a cutting edge product that 'runs hundreds of thousands of the most important businesses around the world'.