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HP Advances StorageWorks Technology with Deployment of Oracle Database 11g

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HP today announced that it is working with Oracle to offer industry-leading scalability for Oracle® Database 11g Real Application Cluster deployments and to help ensure that customers experience a seamless transition to the newly announced Oracle Database 11g.

HP StorageWorks technology has been used by Oracle as a validation and performance characterization platform for the Oracle Database 11g Direct Network File System (Direct NFS) feature with Decision Support System and Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workloads.

In particular, based on joint testing with Oracle, the HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services (EFS) Clustered Gateway with HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays demonstrated high NFS performance and scalability to support multiple demanding databases from a single, shared-data storage system.

When used with the HP StorageWorks EFS Clustered Gateway, Oracle Database 11g’s Direct NFS feature provides a single, unified connectivity model for both storage and networking, while saving the cost and complexity associated with Fibre Channel.

In addition, this powerful combination provides the ability to leverage existing storage area networks, providing investment protection while also allowing for significant flexibility for growth with mitigated risk.

“HP StorageWorks infrastructure products efficiently and effectively support the Oracle Database 11g feature set in enterprise IT environments,” said Ian Duncan, director of network-attached storage marketing, StorageWorks, HP. “The HP EFS Clustered Gateway, when used with the Direct NFS functionality in Oracle Database 11g, brings new levels of performance, availability and scalability in enterprise data, allowing management to focus on improving business outcomes.”

Through Oracle’s integration of NFS client functionality directly into Oracle Database 11g, customers can realize better I/O performance, more efficient system resource utilization and lower operating costs in network-attached storage environments. This can result in significantly increased database throughput, with improvements as high as 40 percent measured in internal testing.

In addition, Direct NFS simplifies – and in many cases automates – the task of optimizing the NFS client configuration for database workloads, thereby reducing administrative burden and costs.

“Close engineering collaboration with HP enables our joint customers to have more choice for their grid computing environments,” said Willie Hardie, vice president, Database Product Marketing, Oracle. “New features in Oracle Database 11g, like Direct NFS client, offer customers outstanding gains in database throughput.”

More information is available at www.hp.com/go/oracle, including an Oracle and HP co-authored technical whitepaper that highlights the results of a performance study when using the Direct NFS capabilities in Oracle Database 11g in conjunction with HP StorageWorks EFS Clustered Gateway.

About the Oracle Database 11g

Oracle Database is the only database designed for grid computing. With the release of Oracle Database 11g, Oracle is making the management of enterprise information easier than ever; enabling customers to know more about their business and innovate more quickly. Oracle Database 11g delivers superior performance, scalability, availability, security and ease of management on a low-cost grid of industry-standard storage and servers. Oracle Database 11g is designed to be effectively deployed on everything from small blade servers to the biggest SMP servers and clusters of all sizes. It features automated management capabilities for easy, cost-effective operation. Oracle Database 11g’s unique ability to manage all data from traditional business information to XML and 3D spatial information makes it the ideal choice to power transaction processing, data warehousing, and content management applications.

About HP

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