Oracle has entered into an agreement with NetSuite, a maker of cloud-based financials and ERP software, to provide it with Exadata servers to support its cloud. NetSuite has become an Oracle customer to increase performance and deliver a number of other additions it hasn’t before to its customers, as the company steadily increases its own customer base.

Zach Nelson, NetSuite’s chief executive noted the following:

” With the power of Oracle Exadata, NetSuite will be able to enable companies to enjoy Exadata’s extreme performance without taking on additional IT burdens, and at a price point that they can afford.”

Exadata is directly competing with SAP’s HANA, an offering that is jointly developed with IBM. And just like HANA, Exadata also had some developments lately, particularly being a focus of SAP’s Sapphire event this week.

Over at the UK, SCC, Europe’s largest independt IT company, has announced it will be the second vendor in the United Kingdom to resell Oracle’s Exadata platform. According to the company it has deployed the platform in its own Lyndon Place Data Center, where it demonstrated Oracle’s offering to customers.

Also recently, Oracle launched the latest version of Sun Ray Software. Version 5.2 of the server-hosted desktop software comes with enhanced video and audio as well as network resiliency, a simplified installation and configuration menus well as a number of other tweaks. Another feature is the addition of real-life audio.

When it comes to Exadata, SAP’s HANA is the largest competitor Oracle has to worry about. The offering is one of the central topics of this week’s SAPphire 2011 conference, and HANA had quite a bit of developments lately. For once, electronics giant Fujitsu will now resell the growingly popular offering, and HP just made a very significant announcement about its new big data analytics partnership with SAP.