PROFIT Magazine discusses Oracle Database 11g with TUSC CEO

PROFIT: You've spent time under the hood of Oracle Database 11g. What are your impressions?

NIEMIEC: I'm excited about Oracle Database 11g because I think it manages business systems that are yet to come. The amount of data continues to grow while the pace of change accelerates. We'll need systems that give us a way to visualize and manage huge data loads. We'll need systems that help us meet that change with confidence. We'll need systems that have the intelligence to manage themselves to some degree. Oracle Database 11g is expected to do all these things.

PROFIT: You say future databases must manage huge amounts of data. How huge?

NIEMIEC: I calculated that the top 1 million enterprise databases in the world today hold a total of 3 exabytes of data, which is 3 million terabytes. In one Oracle 11g database, you can expect to be able to store 8 exabytes. So on one Oracle database that would mean you could store the top 1 million company databases in the world, right now. That's the planned capability of Oracle Database 11g. Of course, the hardware to hold it isn't there . . . yet.

PROFIT: Why would a CEO, CIO, or CFO care?

NIEMIEC: The absolute power of the Oracle Database provides them with a business advantage over their competitors. Being able to store and update records quickly, with all the data that you could ever store in your system, and every partner you ever had storing their data in your system, and doing it quickly, is what gives Oracle a huge advantage over other systems.

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