<p>Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took to the stage during his Oracle OpenWorld keynote to make a couple of big announcements, namely new Oracle Public Cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings and Oracle Database 12c, which he described as "the first multitenant database in the world." But what about business servers?</p><p>While overshadowed by Ellison's cloud computing ambitions, the company also unveiled some significant updates to its flagship business application server platform.Exalogic X3-2 Engineered Systems</p><p>Outfitted with new Intel Xeon chips, massive amounts of DRAM and flash storage, the new Exalogic X3-2 was engineered to make short work of resource-intensive business applications and big cloud computing workloads, says Oracle executive vice president Hasan Rizvi.</p><p>"With the latest release of Oracle Exalogic, customers can experience extreme performance across critical applications and vast reductions in the complexity of their application infrastructures, while improving their time-to-market and further reducing IT risk and costs," said Rizvi in a company statement.</p><p><a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/oracle-debuts-exalogic-x3-2-server.html">Keep reading...</a></p>