A 22-page Oracle white paper focuses on key Oracle Database 11g capabilities that its authors believe can help IT departments better optimize their storage infrastructure and enable administrators to deliver a cost effective, scalable information management platform, which is easy to manage and delivers the required performance and availability needed for their datacenters.

The need to develop data archiving capabilities is a challenge that every enterprise faces these days for any or all of several needs: whether to accommodate explosive data growth; to respond to the pressure to meet promised service levels and backup windows for users; to provide archive data retention and retrieval requirements; and to better manage rising energy costs. Dean Halbeisen's Sun BluePrints Online paper "Sun Systems for Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup Software" details the openly architected, intelligent and massively scalable general purpose archive solutions Sun is developing to assist enterprise users in meeting these challenges.

A four-page brochure from Sun makes a case for using the Sun Storage 7000 family for consolidating oracle databases in these sections:

• The Challenge
• Breakthrough Simplicity, Performance, and Savings
• The Ideal Platform for Database Consolidation
• Breakthrough Data Placement: Hybrid Storage Pools (HSP)
• Breakthrough System Monitoring: Analytics
• Breakthrough Data Protection: Self Healing Storage
• A Paradigm Shift in Scalability: Scale Any Aspect of the System
• Services and Support

This article also list the key feature of the Sun Storage 7000 for databases.