One Array for AI: Inside the IBM FlashSystem and Broadcom Fibre Channel Architecture Behind Oracle AI Database 26ai
The biggest AI infrastructure decision many enterprises make in the next year won’t be a GPU investment; it will be a database upgrade. Oracle AI Database 26ai is the long-term support release Oracle is steering its 19c installed base toward. 26ai puts vector search in the same engine that holds transactions. When the vector index lives in the database, the block array and the SAN fabric behind it become AI infrastructure, carrying retrieval traffic alongside the transactions they already serve.
The Database Changed Underneath AI
Oracle built 26ai around that idea: a native VECTOR data…
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