Oracle intros Cloud File System for private clouds

NEW YORK, USA: Software maker Oracle introduced Oracle Cloud File System to help organizations deploy applications, databases and storage in cloud.

The company claims that the Cloud File System offers a solution that extends cloud characteristics to storage by enabling storage pooling through a network accessible elastic storage cloud.

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The file system is priced at $5,000 per processor and is is available free of charge for storing Oracle software binaries, metadata, and diagnostic files.

The new file system provides shared pooled storage with unified namespace for applications, operational files, and user files, data management, snapshots and replication of files and file systems for backups and disaster protection, also features Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System and Oracle Automatic Storage Management Dynamic Volume Manager.