Oracle CEO Larry Ellison at Oracle OpenWorld 2012. San Francisco, USA, September 30, 2012. Posted: Oracle Digital Media, October 25, 2012. Courtesy of Oracle Digital Media

Redwood Shores, Calif., USA – October 26, 2012

Oracle today announced general availability of Oracle Solaris 11.1 and Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1.

Oracle Solaris 11 is the first cloud OS that allows customers to build large-scale enterprise-class Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) clouds on a wide range of SPARC and x86 servers and Oracle engineered systems.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison at Oracle OpenWorld 2012. San Francisco, USA, September 30, 2012. Posted: Oracle Digital Media, October 25, 2012. Courtesy of Oracle Digital Media

Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 extends high availability and disaster recovery capabilities of Oracle Solaris and includes unique virtual cluster features supporting highly efficient application consolidation with best-in-class availability.

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Oracle Solaris 11 is already widely in production with thousands of customers with mission critical deployments across industries such as financial services, communications, healthcare, retail, public sector and media and entertainment.

Read customer success stories about Oracle Solaris here.
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/customers/customersearch/index.html?Keyword=solaris  

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Oracle Solaris 11 is also gaining strong momentum among enterprise application vendors with hundreds of applications already qualified for Oracle Solaris Ready status through the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN).

OPN members can develop, sell and implement their solutions on Oracle Solaris 11 and take advantage of specialized Oracle Solaris resources to expand their market reach.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison at Oracle OpenWorld 2012. San Francisco, USA, September 30, 2012. Posted: Oracle Digital Media, October 25, 2012. Courtesy of Oracle Digital Media

Customers and partners can quickly and safely upgrade to Oracle Solaris 11.1 using the built-in update tools and software repositories available with Oracle Solaris 11.

Oracle will host a webcast on November 7, 2012 at 8 a.m. Pacific time on Oracle Solaris 11.1 and Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1, featuring Markus Flierl, vice president, Oracle Solaris Engineering, Core Technology and Bill Nesheim, vice president, Oracle Solaris Engineering, Platform Software.

Courtesy of Oracle

This event will also include an interactive chat with core developers of Oracle Solaris and Oracle Solaris Cluster.


New and Enhanced Features in Oracle Solaris 11.1

Oracle Solaris 11.1 increases the performance, availability and I/O throughput of the latest Oracle Database technology.

A new, optimized shared memory interface between the Oracle Database and Oracle Solaris 11.1 provides 8x faster database startup and shutdown, as well as online resizing of the Oracle Database System Global Area (SGA).

Oracle Solaris 11. The First Cloud OS. Brings the reliability, security and scalability of the #1 UNIX OS to the cloud. The best platform for any enterprise application, co-engineered with the Oracle stack for performance and efficiency. Courtesy of Oracle

Oracle Solaris 11.1 introduces unique new capabilities for optimizing Oracle Database performance.

Oracle Solaris 11.1 exposes Oracle Solaris DTrace I/O interfaces that allow an Oracle Database administrator to identify I/O outliers and subsequently isolate network or storage bottlenecks.

Sun ZFS Appliance Monitor. Remotely monitor multiple Sun ZFS Appliances. Oracle's Sun ZFS Appliance Monitor provides remote access at-your-fingertips to monitor and troubleshoot critical aspects of your global Sun ZFS Appliance family via the Apple iPhone and iPad. Courtesy of Oracle

A new Oracle Solaris DTrace plug-in for Oracle Java Mission Control to enable customers to profile Java applications on Oracle Solaris production systems.

New cloud management features add to Oracle Solaris 11’s zero overhead built-in virtualization capabilities across system, network and storage resources, including expanded support for Software Defined Networks (SDN) with Edge Virtual Bridging enhancements, to maximize network resource utilization and manage bandwidth in cloud environments.

Sun ZFS Appliance Monitor. Real time DTrace Analytics. Courtesy of Oracle

New built-in memory predictor monitors application memory use and provides optimized memory page sizes and resource location to speed overall application performance.

Support for an unprecedented 32 TB of RAM and thousands of CPUs unlocks the full potential of Oracle’s latest server systems.


Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 Highlights

New Oracle Solaris 10 Zone Clusters allow customers to consolidate mission critical Oracle Solaris 10 applications on Oracle Solaris 11 cloud environments.

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Expanded disaster recovery operations using Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance services along with Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 to coordinate failover of applications and data to a remote disaster recovery site.

Faster application recovery with improved storage failure detection and resource dependencies management.

Sun ZFS Appliance Monitor. Visualize real-time DTrace Storage Analytics. Courtesy of Oracle

New labeled security capability in Oracle Solaris Zone Clusters provides military grade application separation in highly consolidated mission-critical deployments using Oracle Solaris 11 Trusted Extensions.


Integrated Oracle Deployments and Support

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center provides comprehensive cloud management capabilities for Oracle Solaris 11, including self-service provisioning of Oracle Solaris 11 Zones.

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Ops Center’s integrated systems management delivers enterprise scale cloud performance. Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center is available to Oracle Solaris customers at no additional cost under the Ops Center Everywhere Program.

Oracle Solaris Studio delivers the latest in compiler optimizations, multithread performance and powerful analysis tools for native development, and optimized application performance and reliability on Oracle Solaris 11.1 systems.

Sun ZFS Storage 7420 Appliance. Hybrid Columnar Compression delivers 3x-5x better storage efficiency. Scalable, Efficient Enterprise NAS. Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage 7420 appliance sets a new standard in enterprise NAS with best-in-class efficiency with Hybrid Columnar Compression. It delivers the scale and functionality that enterprises demand combined with easy, appliance-based setup and administration that simplify management and lower TCO. Courtesy of Oracle

Oracle Solaris 11 guarantees binary compatibility with previous Oracle Solaris versions through the Oracle Solaris Binary Application Guarantee Program, which provides customers a seamless upgrade path and the industry’s best investment protection.

Oracle Solaris Legacy Containers allows older Oracle Solaris environments to be brought forward onto latest generation hardware to provide power, cooling and footprint consolidation savings.

Sun ZFS Storage 7420 Appliance. Easy browser-based setup and management with DTrace storage analytics. Courtesy of Oracle

OPN members can find Oracle Solaris tools and resources in the Oracle Solaris Knowledge Zone, including Oracle Solaris Ready, Oracle Solaris 11 Specialization and Oracle Solaris Development Initiative.

Sun ZFS Storage 7420 Appliance. Hybrid Storage Pools automate 2 TB of DRAM, over 10 TB of Flash caches, and 1.72 PB of disk drives. Courtesy of Oracle

The Oracle Solaris Remote Lab now provides a secure cloud environment for OPN members to test and validate their applications with Oracle Solaris 11 in SPARC and x86 virtual environments.


Supporting Quotes

“Oracle recommends Oracle Solaris 11 for all UNIX®-based Oracle implementations. Oracle Solaris 11.1 delivers over 300 new performance and feature enhancements and is engineered together with Oracle Database, middleware, applications to increase performance, streamline management and automate support for Oracle deployments,” said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems, Oracle.
“The combination of the secure, highly available capabilities of Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 and the built-in virtualization of Oracle Solaris 11.1 helps customers bring their most mission-critical applications into a cost effective, agile cloud environment and delivers extreme availability for enterprise applications.”

Sun ZFS Storage 7120 Appliance. Enterprise–class NAS data services and protocols in an entry-level system. Efficient, Powerful, Affordable NAS. Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage 7120 appliance comes with Flash-based cache, is easy to install and manage, and offers industry-leading storage efficiency for midsize companies, departments, and remote offices. Courtesy of Oracle

“Clients are looking for ways to reduce the complexity of systems management while enabling Platform as a Service (PaaS) & Software as a Service (SaaS) clouds,” says Lee Diamante, solutions architect, Systems Computing Solutions at Forsythe.
“The value of Oracle Solaris 11 is that it maintains all the enterprise-class features expected with a mission-critical OS, while bringing in new, innovative technologies. Forsythe has a long and rich history of delivering customer solutions on Oracle Solaris systems. This is why we are excited about the Solaris 11.1 release.”

Sun ZFS Storage 7120 Appliance. Hybrid Storage Pools automate the use of DRAM, Flash caches, and disk drives. Courtesy of Oracle

“Oracle is making it much easier for partners like Informatica to gain access to their software with the new testing environments; shrinking the time to measurable results and value,” said Julie Lockner, vice president, ILM, Informatica.
“With the release of Oracle Solaris 11.1 Informatica customers now have access to mission critical deployments across major industries, with an environment of high performance and high availability. With all the new feature enhancements, we look forward to making the Informatica Platform certified on the Oracle Solaris 11 product family.”

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Contact Info

Jacki DeCoster
Oracle
+1.650.633.7788
jacki.decoster@oracle.com  

Drew Smith
Blanc & Otus
+1.415.856.5127
dsmith@blancandotus.com  

Oracle Unveils StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6

New Mainframe Tape Storage Solution Delivers 2x Faster Performance Than the Previous Generation and Scales Disk Capacity to Over 640 Petabytes.

Redwood Shores, Calif., USA – October 24, 2012

Oracle today announced Oracle's StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6, the latest generation of its mainframe virtual tape system.

StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 is the first and only mainframe virtual tape storage system to provide a single point of management for the entire system that leverages the security of the mainframe environment.

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StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 efficiently manages data and storage resources with automated, policy-driven management that simplifies deployment and streamlines ongoing tape operations for data protection, disaster recovery and archive.

With 2x the performance and more than 1.8x the total disk capacity of the previous generation, the StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 system scales on-demand to over 640 petabytes to meet the needs of high growth data storage environments in a dense, energy efficient data center footprint that helps lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

Sun ZFS Storage 7320 Appliance. Faster Oracle Database backup and recovery and superior streaming performance for Exadata backup and recovery. Courtesy of Oracle

Oracle’s StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager system includes Oracle’s StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 and Oracle’s StorageTek Virtual Library Extension.

With sustained system throughput of 1,200 MB/sec, the StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 is approximately 20 percent faster than the IBM TS7700, and can run multiple workloads without degrading system performance, completing jobs faster.

StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager and Virtual Library Extension Systems. Back up and retrieve mainframe data at disk media speeds. StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager and Virtual Library Extension Systems. Best-In-Class Mainframe Data Protection. Oracle's StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager improves tape drive operating efficiencies and lowers TCO by optimizing tape drive and library resources through a disk-based virtual tape architecture. Courtesy of Oracle

The system also scales to over 50x the disk capacity of the IBM TS7720.

IBM TS7700 throughput is approximately 960 MB/sec, available here: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247975.pdf  
IBM TS7720 disk capacity is 11.23PB (assumes 3:1 compression), available here: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ts7700/specifications.html  

StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 offers the flexibility to address multiple enterprise configuration requirements including high performance disk-only or massively scalable disk and physical tape, as well as single or multi-site support for disaster recovery.

It also offers the highest levels of availability with its end-to-end high-availability architecture and provides checks to ensure data integrity as it moves throughout the system and from storage tier-to-tier during its lifecycle.

StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 uses a unique triple parity RAID architecture throughout the system to minimize the impact of disk rebuilds, which can be significant with today’s high-capacity disks in other architectures.

StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager and Virtual Library Extension Systems. Adapt industry-leading disaster recovery policies to meet your exact needs. Courtesy of Oracle

StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 offers 7x lower five-year TCO than the previous generation and is backwards compatible with all previous generation StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager systems for added investment protection.
TCO is measured as acquisition cost plus support costs over five years.
Oracle will host a Webcast on November 27 at 10 am PT to provide a deeper dive into the StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6. 


Supporting Quotes

“As customers continue to contend with exponential data growth and the need for 24x7 access to mission-critical data, Oracle is raising the bar with high-performance virtual tape capabilities that can help keep costs down,” said James Cates, vice president, Hardware Development, Oracle.
“Oracle’s new StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 delivers major enhancements in simplicity, scalability and availability that enable customers to better manage mainframe storage environments, maximize their investments in tape, and lower total cost of ownership.”

StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager and Virtual Library Extension Systems. Support varied workload demands while leveraging the cost savings of tape. Courtesy of Oracle

“Oracle is confirming its commitment to the mainframe virtual tape market with the introduction of the next generation of the StorageTek virtual tape technology,” said Robert Amatruda, Research Director, Data Protection and Recovery, IDC.
“Oracle’s Virtual Storage Manager 6 is a feature rich product that leverages the strong mainframe heritage of the StorageTek brand.”


For more information contact:

Harald Gessner
Oracle EMEA Hardware PR
t:+49 89 1430 1215
m:+49 173 355 26 46
e: harald.gessner@oracle.com  


About Oracle

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SOURCE: ORACLE

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