Sun, Oracle To Deliver Pre-Configured Data Warehouses

Oracle and Sun Microsystems have announced the availability of the Oracle Optimised Warehouse for Sun.

The solution, which will be sold by Sun, consists of Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Partitioning on a Sun Fire E20K server, the Sun open source Solaris operating system (OS) and Sun StorageTek 6540 arrays. With all hardware and software components pre-installed, configured, optimised, and ready to run, the Oracle Optimised Warehouse for Sun claims to be the fastest way to buy and implement a data warehouse on Oracle and Sun technology.

“With the Oracle Optimised Warehouse for Sun, it is easier than ever to purchase a world-class data warehouse platform,” said Ray Roccaforte, vice president of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Platform, Oracle. “Sun and Oracle’s joint engineering efforts in testing and optimising this data warehouse will help reduce costs and implementation times for our customers, while delivering a solution capable of the most demanding workloads and the most complex business analytics.”