OpenWorld 2013 was a large conference with 60,000 attendees from 145 countries. Oracle announced several new products including an in-memory option for the Oracle Database that provides 100x faster queries and 2x faster transactions processing without requiring any application changes. They also announced a new Backup, Logging, Recovery Appliance designed specifically for databases. For systems, Oracle announced the M6-32 Big Memory Machine with up to 32TB of memory, updated Exalytics appliances, and new Exadata and ZS storage systems. For cloud services, Oracle announced expanded infrastructure, platform and application services available through its public cloud.