Storage Stack: The IOUG Storage Systems Newsletter
September 13, 2013
An information resource prepared by Database Trends and Applications Magazine and published in cooperation with the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG).
News
Leading analysts provide additional perspective on Oracle's latest application-engineered storage offering:
If you are planning to attend Oracle OpenWorld this year, there will be a wealth of storage-focused sessions, including several IOUG User Group Sunday sessions!
In an interview, Oracle's Steve Zivanic answers questions about Oracle's storage portfolio strategy and the concept of application-aware storage versus general-purpose storage systems. In the future, customers can expect deeper co-engineering between Oracle's storage and Oracle Database and applications, he notes.
IOUG has recently launched a new online community focused on storage education. The community is a storage resource center featuring helpful white papers, webinars, articles and websites as well as a forum and calendar to keep you up to date with all upcoming IOUG storage activities.
Leading analysts provide perspective on Oracle's latest application-engineered storage offering.
The latest version of Oracle's Exalytics In-Memory Machine, version X3-4, features software enhancements and hardware updates to improve the capabilities of the high-speed engineered system for business analytics. The new Exalytics X3-4 system doubles RAM to 2TB, and now features 2.4TB of flash storage, and 5.4TB of hard disk. Doubling the amount of on-board RAM to 2TB means is that organizations can have more users, more applications, larger cached in-memory results sets - all running on Exalytics, said Paul Rodwick, vice president of product management at Oracle, in a recent interview.
Earlier this week, Oracle unveiled the next-generation ZFS Storage Appliances, the ZS3 Series. The new ZS3 Series provides two key benefits to customers, Jason Schaffer, senior director of storage product management at Oracle, said in an interview. It accelerates high throughput business analytics and database queries - increases the performance - and it decreases the time it takes to tune the Oracle Database and storage to work together. The net result of this, Schaffer noted, is that it increases customers' operational efficiencies and reduces their overall IT costs.
If you are planning to attend Oracle OpenWorld this year, there will be a wealth of storage-focused sessions, including several IOUG User Group Sunday sessions!