Oracle gooses Exalytics in-memory appliance with flash, fat DDR3 sticks

Waiting for the 'Ivy Bridge-EX' Xeon E7 v2 from Intel Apparently the "speed of thought" that Oracle cofounder and CEO Larry Ellison was bragging about when Big Red launched its Exalytics in-memory applianceback in October 2011 is no longer fast enough. And so Oracle is gussying it up with a memory upgrade and a flash card boost until it can get a new "Ivy Bridge-EX" version of the appliance out the door, perhaps early next year....