The Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server is a storage product optimized for use with Oracle Database applications and is the storage building block of the Sun Oracle Database Machine. It uses a massively parallel architecture and Exadata Smart Flash Cache to dramatically accelerate Oracle Database processing and speed I/O operations. It may be attached to a Sun Oracle Database Machine to build out the Database Machine and is ideal for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Data Warehousing (DW) and consolidation of mixed workloads. Simple to deploy and manage, the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server provides linear I/O scalability and missioncritical reliability.