By Ry Crozier on Feb 8, 2021 7:01AM Presently part of the infrastructure powering real-time payments. ANZ Banking Group is treating an Oracle Exadata hardware deployment as an entry point to potentially hosting payments-oriented and other workloads in the cloud. Head of payments support and site reliability engineering Jason Barnes-Wo told an Oracle forum at the end of last year that the bank had deployed Exadata initially to process transactions run over the new payments platform (NPP). Exadata is a combined hardware and software platform optimised to run Oracle databases. Barnes-Wo said that real-time payments platforms such as the NPP “are popping up in various geographies around the world”.