 "Oracle Strengthens Storage Portfolio")
Oracle has announced that it has strengthened its storage offerings with two new products Oracle StorageTek Tape Analytics and Sun ZFS Backup Appliance to its already robust storage product portfolio. Oracle’s StorageTek Tape Analytics is intelligent monitoring and management software for Oracle’s StorageTek tape libraries and Sun ZFS Backup Appliance is an integrated, high performance backup solution for Oracle engineered systems.
“Oracle has a complete storage portfolio with best-of breed products for all types of storage needs. Our offerings include everything from extremely fast Flash-based products and SAN storage arrays to high-capacity, low-cost NAS systems; highly scalable tape automation solutions; and integrated database machines,” said Amit Malhotra, Director Storage Sales- Japan & Asia Pacific at Oracle “ These new additions will further strengthen our portfolio and help us deliver even greater value to both customers and partners”
“The dramatic growth in digital data generation has put increased stress on organisation’s existing infrastructure and the traditional approach is increasingly becoming inadequate in managing and extracting maximum business value,” said Amit. “Our business-ready storage systems integrate innovative hardware architectures, automated storage tiering, and simplified storage management software into an intelligent infrastructure to enable our customers tackle this data deluge.”
Oracle has integrated its storage products with Oracle’s entire software stack to run best with Oracle Applications, delivering extreme performance, efficiency and security. In addition, technology innovations like Oracle’s unique Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC) enables customers to achieve up to 90 percent reductions in storage footprints for in-database archives.
Oracle is closely working with its strong network of partners, including System Integrators (SIs), Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Consulting Organisations, Value Added Distributors (VADs) and Platform Providers to simplify purchase, deployment and management of Oracle storage solutions. Oracle has witnessed adoption of its storage solutions by customers across verticals like Telecom, BFSI, Government, Retail, Manufacturing, and media companies in India.
Oracle’s complete storage product portfolio enables enterprise datacentres to address all business critical storage requirements.
Oracle Exadata Storage, engineered for the Oracle Database, provides extreme performance for OLTP, data warehousing and database consolidation with industry leading optimisations including Query offload, Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression, Exadata Smart Flash Cache, IO Resource Manager, and InfiniBand interconnect.
Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance, the premier product for Network Attached Storage (NAS) File I/O, offers high-performance, efficient NAS consolidation for Oracle software, test and development and data protection. Oracle’s Hybrid Columnar Compression with Pillar Axiom Storage results in deploying less storage and significant savings in CAPEX and OPEX. Additionally, Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance is the only NAS storage solution that combines inline deduplication and compression for primary storage to increase storage efficiency and reduce the amount of storage needed by up to 90 percent.
Pillar Axiom storage is the premier Oracle product for Storage Area Network (SAN) Block I/O. It delivers enterprise SAN consolidation with exceptional performance / capacity scaling, industry-leading efficiency and best-in-class, end-to-end quality of service. Pillar Axiom supports Oracle Database hybrid columnar compression to deliver industry-leading storage efficiency and performance for SAN solutions deployed in Oracle environments to improve storage efficiency and reduce costs
Oracle StorageTek Tape, engineered for archive and data protection, is highly scalable, reliable and available for consolidating data for archive and data protection.