Check out this new Storage Now paper by Storage Strategies, touting Oracle's SUN ZFS Storage Appliance and how it outperforms the competition when running Oracle software and supporting SPARC Servers.

"Oracle has a dominant market share in all aspects of database software. But did you know that Oracle has a massive global storage business—in excess of $1B, according to IDC—that spans NAS, SAN and tape systems that are fine-tuned to operate with its software? Did you know that Oracle has over two hundred petabytes of ZFS Storage Appliances deployed across its cloud, infrastructure hosting, internal product development and global IT operations? In these environments, the company displaced NetApp storage with ZFS Storage Appliances and achieved a 3:1 consolidation in the process..."
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"Douglas Soltesz, vice president and CIO at Budd Van Lines, is facing a common problem: A seemingly endless flood of data.

"If you gave me an infinite amount of storage, I could fill it," he says. The most recent four months of high-definition surveillance video from the company's offices and warehouses now consumes 60TB on his NexentaStor NAS and SAN platforms. That video is one reason his storage needs are growing 50% to 80% per year..."
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"n the file and block controversy that started as the SAN vs NAS war, it seems that files won or least have a commanding lead. File data used to be mostly end user data, office productivity files, marketing materials, etc. But now “unstructured” data (the more formal term for files) can include an entire server image and even a database. The ease of use that NAS boxes generally offered over SANs clearly helped in this shift to files, but so has the data itself. We’re creating more and more files and they’re getting bigger..."
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