1) What is Oracle Exalytics? Oracle Exalytics is a new "BI machine" designed specifically for Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management. With a massive 1TB RAM and 40 CPU cores, this machine can and will take performance to a level never seen before. The reason why performance is to extreme is that the Exalytics architecture is designed to store your business intelligence data in main memory, this means response time is dramatically faster with no network latency or disk I/O. The term "speed of thought" has already been used a lot with Exalytics - this is referring to the fact that your reports run so quickly that they refresh with new data even whilst you are typing in the filter criteria. 2) What components come with Exalytics? Exalytics is a pre-installed / pre-configured machine running on Linux 64-bit. It comes with 3 main software components: - Oracle BI Foundation 11g (OBIEE release 11.1.1.6) - Oracle TimesTen (in-memor...