Oracle launches ZS3 Series storage

NEW DELHI, INDIA:  Oracle has launched the ZS3 Series storage, enabling customers to significantly improve operational efficiencies, reduce data center costs, and increase business application performance.

The ZS3 Series storage enables customers to perform critical business functions faster, including optimizing supply chains, closing quarterly books, evaluating a greater number of investment scenarios, and accelerating database queries. It also enables enterprises to respond to application needs dynamically while helping to reduce time-to-business value.

To simplify Oracle Database deployments, increase database performance and reduce storage requirements, the ZS3 Series takes advantage of Oracle-only storage features and capabilities which include:

• The new Oracle Intelligent Storage Protocol (OISP) automates Oracle Database tuning and administration. As a result, customers can do more with the same headcount and deliver strategic projects faster.

• New Heat Map and Automatic Data Optimization (ADO) capabilities of Oracle Database 12c apply different compression levels through the data life-cycle to deliver consistently high database performance and reduced storage capacity.

• Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC) compresses Oracle Database data by 10-50x, significantly reducing the amount of storage and bandwidth required, leading to considerable savings through storage cost avoidance, including data center infrastructure, cooling, switches, conduit, cables, racks, floor space, and maintenance.

The ZS3's SMP Operating System fully leverages a next generation architecture, massive cache and multi-core processors to provide users with over 32 GB/s of sustained bandwidth within a single system. This enables ZS3 to support thousands of VMs per system, easily handling extremely highly threaded I/O which saturates conventional NAS filers, leading to filer sprawl.

With ZS3's intelligent caching algorithms, up to 70 percent of all I/O is served from DRAM-up to 2TB per system-which is one thousand times faster than flash drives and 10,000 times faster than hard disk drives, accelerating queries and time to insight.