Why does Oracle "revive" Storage?

 

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oracle Exadata The progress of the database all-in-one, while the stored sound is barely there. In a recent media communication meeting, > Oracle China Systems Division Sales Advisory Director, "We want to revive our storage business," Sho Shunan, chief technology officer of China Systems Division, said clearly. "

To simplify the application as the core

prior to Oracle's acquisition, Sun has been an undeniable force in the enterprise storage market, with a complete SAN and NAS storage product line, where high-end SAN storage and file systems have always been Sun's strength. in 1984, Sun designed and developed the NFS (Network File System), and in 2004 developed the first 128-bit file system,--ZFS (Dynamic file system). Today, both NFS and ZFS are already the most widely used file systems in the industry. "With NFS, ZFS, many storage vendors are having a lot of money, and NFS's ZFS developers are being overlooked." " Sho Shunan very feeling.

Oracle's acquisition of Sun, in addition to retaining sun's expertise in the disk array product line, even the non-optimistic library product line (Sun has acquired a professional tape library manufacturer StorageTek) also continued. It can be said that Oracle has completely inherited Sun's storage technology and products. Despite its advanced storage technology and Sun's enterprise-class storage customer base, Oracle today is not as old as sun in the storage market, and even people have forgotten about Oracle's storage, only from Oracle-like The Exadata integrates the hardware and software into a solution that seeks to store the imprint.

However, the history of this page should be turned over today. Today, Oracle is fully aware of the importance of storage business and hopes to become the top three in the storage market in as short a time as possible through its own efforts.

Where exactly is Oracle's storage opportunity?

First, Oracle's storage technology family property, in addition to inheriting Sun's excellent storage technology genes, Oracle's experience in database and it applications over the years can also be used to design and optimize storage products. Application-aware, highly integrated and optimized storage systems are the foundation of Oracle.

Second, in the era of cloud computing, the pattern of storage market has made new changes. In the virtualization, software-defined storage, flash, distributed technology, such as the big line of the today, the gap between Chinese and foreign storage manufacturers is gradually narrowing, the storage market is no longer by a few big manufacturers to control, but presented a pattern of contention. As a "later" in the storage market, Oracle can have more of a role to play.

Thirdly, as the volume of data continues to increase and workloads become more complex, enterprise customers are more eager to require large-capacity, high-performance, highly scalable, highly available, and highly reliable storage. New storage media, storage concepts and architectures are emerging in order to meet the needs of our customers ' applications. Oracle has the ability to develop storage products and solutions that adapt to the needs of the new era.

Sho Shunan said: "Oracle's core storage strategy can be summed up in a sentence, that is, the Boulevard to Jane." Oracle's job is to use storage that is application-oriented and simplifies applications. Oracle's storage is also cost-effective when it meets the needs of the application. ”

Oracle has made it clear that it will not take "tall" storage routes, but rather simplify the application as the core, adhere to the following four basic principles: first, Oracle-based software for integrated design, so as to achieve the purpose of simplifying the application; second, incorporating storage into Oracle's entire technical framework, Better integration and unified management; Thirdly, Oracle's storage must be a perceptual application, i.e. optimized based on application requirements; Oracle will provide a comprehensive portfolio of SAN and NAS products.

From the storage development four cardinal principles, Oracle does not simply store for storage, but instead takes advantage of Oracle's overall IT architecture and software, storing storage as one of the key components to drive storage applications and sales in an integrated and integrated manner. As an example of Oracle's FS1 Enterprise-Class flash system, it is the best partner for Oracle databases, capable of leveraging the high performance of Oracle FS1, and can be marketed as a common storage system, supporting third-party hardware and software.

Sho Shunan said: "Our storage first has universal storage capabilities, and on top of that, adds a lot of added value, including optimization and integration for Oracle software." Our principle is user first, so that the user's IT system can run faster and easier to use. ”

Oracle storage, not from the storage hardware point of view, but from the software and application point of view, which not only reflects the difference of Oracle storage, but also to maximize the advantages of Oracle in software and technology integration.

Storage "Four King Kong"

Oracle Enterprise Storage Family with "four King Kong": Oracle FS1 Flash system designed for mission-critical applications, Oracle ZFS application integrated storage, Oracle 0 data Loss Recovery appliance that subvert database protection, Oracle with long history StorageTek Tape Library Storage System.

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The Oracle FS1 Flash system is a high-end SAN storage solution optimized for Flash applications and combines Oracle software. Oracle FS1 is already a third-generation Oracle Enterprise-Class SAN storage with a very mature architecture and a wide range of applications. Oracle FS1 combines flash and disk to provide fast self-learning capabilities for smaller granular data migrations and tiered storage. Oracle FS1 Flash systems provide tuned, off-the-shelf storage provisioning profiles for Oracle databases and critical applications, including Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange. "Oracle FS1 has five core features, including automated tiered qos+ based on business priorities, application-based one-click Configuration, multi-application storage partitioning, high-performance converged architecture for all-flash design, and deep integrated design of Oracle software that can significantly improve storage efficiency," Sho Shunan said. ”

With Oracle's data compression solution, Oracle FS1 can store 1PB of data in 100TB of space. The Oracle FS1 can scale up to 16 nodes with a petabyte capacity of up to 2 million IOPS performance.

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Oracle 0 Data Loss Recovery appliance is the world's first engineered system designed to protect databases. This all-in-one machine provides continuous protection for critical databases while offloading all backup operations from the production server to minimize system resource overhead. The Oracle 0 Data Loss Recovery appliance is highly scalable and requires a single device to meet the data protection needs of thousands of databases. "The integrated machine tightly integrates the specific capabilities of the Oracle database and Recovery Manager (RMAN) backup tools to provide the data protection features and performance that other data protection solutions cannot," Sho Shunan said. ”

The tape library has been sung by people countless times. Today, however, tape libraries are still the first choice for many large enterprise backup and archiving. "Tape libraries have a long life and low cost advantage and are not easily replaced by disk storage systems," says Sho Shunan. I think the tape library will have a longer life cycle than the existing disk. "As all-flash systems are embraced, there is a sound in the industry that future data center storage systems will be made up of all-flash and tape libraries." Oracle StorageTek Tape Storage systems use the world's highest-capacity and high-performance drives to provide 24x7 availability and enable integrated tiered storage with higher scalability, helping organizations reduce backup time, optimize archive access, and lower TCO.

Broken axe sinking boat

"Why have our advantages in storage technology and products not turned into a winning position in sales and market share?" "This is a question that many of Oracle's employees, including Sho Shunan, often ask themselves.

Now, Oracle is proposing to revive storage in order to transform the advantages of storage technology into the market's potential. To this end, Oracle even at "Kill 1000, self-loss 500". With this broken axe sinking boat's momentum, Oracle storage first in the momentum of the win a

"This year, the company attaches great importance to the storage business, increasing the strength of product development and sales." In the future, our storage products will be upgraded faster. "After acquiring Sun, we have been doing storage and never interrupted," Sho Shunan said. Now, we're just better incorporating storage into the company's overall technology architecture, enabling deep integration and optimization of hardware and software based on databases and other applications. This is the biggest selling point of Oracle storage. ”

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Why does Oracle "revive" Storage?