Oracle Magazine: Breakaway Speed

Specialized Bicycle Components replaced legacy servers with an Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 which delivered an average of 17X increase in business processes performance. They also purchased an Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-2 and a StorageTek SL150 modular tape library to replace a legacy NetApp system, providing a more modern environment for development, production, disaster recovery, and archiving. This new environment reduced production database backup from 8 hours to 9 minutes, and sped up database cloning for dev/test by 12-fold. 

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