Storage magazine has awarded top honors to Sun ZFS Storage Appliance solutions for both enterprise and midrange NAS. EMC and NetApp received lesser marks for their storage technologies. Oracle outperformed its rivals in terms of initial product quality, features, reliability, technical support and sales force competence. More than 3.000 customers have discovered that Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliances, the only NAS products engineered together with Oracle Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database, and Oracle’s SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, and optimized for Oracle VM and the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, run fastest and most efficiently on Oracle storage.
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In June 2010, Dell was operating some 1700 servers in various worldwide locations on SuSE Linux when it decided to migrate to Oracle Linux 5.5, leaving the hardware and application layers unchanged. Dell found sufficient capacity on some existing MegaGrid implementations to allow the applications and databases to be migrated to the grid and the SUSE Linux server powered down and decommissioned. Although Oracle does not support heterogeneous Oracle RAC clusters, Dell experienced no issues during the transition with nodes running SUSE Linux interoperating with nodes running Oracle Linux. Dell expects to complete the migration in June 2012.
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Reporting from the recent OpenStorage Summit, 451 Group analyst Dave Simpson notes a healthy degree of interest in open source alternatives to traditional storage systems. The economies that open source storage technologies such as Nexenta offer have apparently proven sufficiently compelling that Korea Telecom, for example, Asia's largest public cloud provider, has implemented those technologies and offers its services to customers at considerably reduced rates. Simpson also mentions new products from both Nexenta and Symantec, which have attracted considerable interest in the industry. These include NexentaStor 3.1.2 and Symantec's OpenStorage APIs.
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IDC's "Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker" found that external disk storage systems factory revenues posted year-over-year growth of 10.8%, totaling just under $5.8 billion in 3Q11. The total disk storage systems market grew to $7.6 billion in revenues in the quarter, 8.5% up from 3Q10. EMC led the external disk storage systems market with 28.6% revenue share in the third quarter, followed by IBM and NetApp tied for second with 12.7% and 12.1% market share. In total worldwide disk storage systems, EMC finished in the top position with market shares of 21.7% followed by HP with 18.9% respectively.
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The recently published EMC-sponsored "European Disaster Recovery Survey 2011" found that more than half of all organizations (54%) lost data or suffered systems downtime in the last 12 months. The reasons were hardware failure: 61%; power failure: 42%; and data corruption: 35%. And the economic impact of these losses were loss of employees productivity: 43%; loss of revenue: 29%; and delay in product development: 27%. The survey also found that 80% of organizations using tape are looking to move beyond it, with the top reasons cited as speed of restoration 39%; faster backups 33%; and lack of durability 26%.
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