The document summarizes a POC conducted using an Oracle Exadata X7-2 system with Oracle VM (OVM) to evaluate performance against an existing IBM P8 system. The POC involved loading an 18TB database onto different Exadata configurations with varying numbers of vCPUs. Initial loads took 48 hours on Exadata compared to over 54 hours on IBM. Exadata achieved a 2x performance increase with 36 vCPUs and low CPU usage, while IBM achieved a 4x increase but required 14 cores and setting optimizer features to an older version.