In December 2013, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X4-2, an upgrade over the previous-generation X3-2 system. In this podcast, Yoav Eilat and Kelly Goetsch from the Exalogic product team discuss what's new on the hardware and software side, including 50% more cores per node, large amounts of memory, significantly increased flash and disk storage capacity, and software updates to run custom and packaged applications with faster performance while reducing data center cost and complexity.