REDWOOD SHORES, CA -- 10/27/10 -- Oracle (NASDAQ:
ORCL)
News Facts
Extending its leadership in the enterprise tape
market, Oracle today announced the StorageTek Virtual
Library Extension (VLE), the industry's first highly
scalable second tier of disk storage that optimizes
tape processing in mainframe environments.
With today's announcement, Oracle delivers two
times the disk scalability to boost performance and
accommodate growing workloads and five times the
availability of IBM mainframe tape solutions to
provide the enterprise reliability that customers
require.
Oracle provides the only mainframe solution that
offers a completely integrated three-tier approach to
storage (FC disk, SAS disk and tape) in a single
solution that simplifies management and provides
better performance at a lower cost than offerings from
other vendors.
With the new StorageTek Virtual Library Extension,
customers can economically keep active data on disk
longer before migrating it to tape for long term
storage. Integrated with the third storage tier of
tape for a complete solution, customers can expect to
see two times the cost savings of a disk-only
solution.
The StorageTek Virtual Library Extension expands
Oracle's StorageTek product family, which delivers the
most scalable, cost efficient and energy-efficient
storage solutions for heterogeneous data protection,
consolidation and archiving.
StorageTek tape libraries support both mainframe
and non-mainframe environments within a single
library, providing an integrated data protection
solution with Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle
11g Recovery Manager and Oracle Secure Backup software
running with Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux, as well
as with leading third-party operating systems, open
systems storage management products, and mainframe
storage management software.
Maximize Scale and Data Protection, Simplify
Management and Lower Costs
The addition of the StorageTek Virtual Library
Extension to a Virtual Storage Manager environment
provides up to an additional 3.5PB of effective disk
storage space, giving customers more seamless disk
buffer scalability to effectively manage growth and
increase performance while reducing costs. It provides
two times the disk scalability of other mainframe
virtual tape solutions to better handle customers'
growing workloads.
The integrated Virtual Storage Manager / Virtual
Library Extension environment is the only mainframe
virtual tape solution that provides a single,
policy-based management interface that migrates data
between high-performance disk, high-capacity disk and
tape tiers.
The StorageTek Virtual Library Extension maximizes
data protection and availability by leveraging the
unique Virtual Storage Manager architecture that
enables data to be dynamically stored and protected in
multiple tiers of storage and at multiple locations
without involving the mainframe. The product uses
Oracle's Solaris ZFS technology
to provide higher reliability with Triple-Parity
RAID-Z3, which delivers five times more data
reliability than IBM systems using RAID-6.
Oracle's Virtual Library Extension / Virtual
Storage Manager environment in combination with
Oracle's leading tape portfolio delivers more than two
times the scalability of IBM's mainframe virtual tape
solutions and five times the scalability of IBM's tape
automation
solutions.
Supporting Quotes
"Since its inception more than 40 years ago, the
StorageTek mainframe storage business has been a
driving force behind innovation
in the industry," said John Fowler, executive vice
president, Systems, Oracle. "This innovative approach
to mainframe tiered storage provides customers with a
way to cost-effectively keep data on disk for longer
time period while still leveraging the long term cost
savings of tape."
"Oracle continues to address the needs of
mainframe virtual tape customers," said Robert
Amatruda, research director, data protection and
recovery, IDC. "Oracle's StorageTek Virtual Library
Extension provides an innovative and cost-effective
approach by adding a second tier of disk to its
StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager products."
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