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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Within an eight-hour window Oracle used Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing, Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management and Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway – integrated using Oracle Application Integration Architecture and running on Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X2-2, of processing more than one billion records and generating 500,000 customer bills. Data were extracted from 30 billion interval meter reads, one month of historical meter data (30 billion meter readings), and a six-month billing history (60 million bills). The test billed each account using three different rates (simulating “peak,” “shoulder” and “off-peak” rates).
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Novation, the supply contracting company for some 65,000 members and affiliates of VHA Inc., UHC and Provista, has implemented a pair of Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 systems to help customers manage and reduce supply costs. Proof of concept figures suggest Novation can expect gains of up to 41x; Oracle Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression is expected to help Novation realize 10x compression rates in storage savings; and customer on-ramp time to analytic services is expected top drop from a 20-day average to hours, allowing customers to retrieve information on spending habits and cost saving opportunities in a timely manner.
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Director of Product Management for Database High Availability in Oracle Server Development Joe Meeks explains in this webcast how Oracle’s maximum availability architecture for Oracle Exadata Database Machine will help protect a company's systems from unplanned outages enabling the delivery of both high availability and data protection at the lowest cost and complexity. Viewers will learn how to achieve the highest levels of database availability at the lowest cost and risk; implement the industry’s most-stringent data protection solutions; and adopt MAA post deployment operational best practices for Oracle Exadata. Registration and log-in are required.
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Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 has enabled EnerNOC, a provider of energy management applications and solutions for the smart grid, to improve the performance of its business-critical services. EnerNOC's implementation of two half-rack Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 systems has enhanced performance of its real-time demand response database out-of-the-box by 5X and produced a 2x-5x boost in performance of its current Extract Transform and Load (ETL) processing out-of-the-box. I/O resource utilization has declined by over 50 percent, and EnerNOC has deployed both online transaction processing (OLTP) databases and data warehouses in a single centrally managed system.
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