White Papers: Oracle

With its July 2011 purchase of Pillar Data Systems, Oracle has added the Pillar Axiom 600 storage system to its expanding range of storage products. Axiom represents a modular, scalable, highly available, high-performance, general-purpose (block mode) storage array. To those valuable generic capabilities, Axiom adds specific value, such as the use of pervasive “Quality of Service” (QoS) and application profiles, which—together with integration with Oracle features and products such as Hybrid Columnar Compression and Storage Archive Manager (SAM)—make it very well-suited to hosting Oracle Database and Oracle Applications offerings. Read on.

How do you prioritize IT investments to ensure support for growing volumes of data and still meet your business users’ evolving requirements—such as competing more effectively, reducing IT costs, meeting compliance requirements, or anticipating changing market conditions? Read on.

With an emphasis on storage, this document is a primer to understanding the technical value of Sun hardware in Oracle VM environments. In particular, this paper provides key guidelines for storage architects to plan for Oracle virtualisation utilising a reference configuration based on Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances and Sun Fire servers.

The total volume of data being processed and stored by businesses is rising exponentially. IDC has estimated that the size of the “digital universe” will increase 29 fold between 2010 and 2020. Data storage technology has sustained a steady increase in capacity, along with a steady decline in the cost per unit to store information. Unfortunately, the amount of storage capacity is not growing as fast as the data, necessitating greater intelligence in the storage infrastructure. Read on.

This paper describes how the business advantages of virtualization have sparked a new wave of innovation in storage for virtualized servers—and a ripple effect of business benefits. It summarizes how the new generation of solutions can deliver higher IT efficiency, better resource and application management, stronger and more flexible data protection, and lower costs.