Server and Storage Systems
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Sun Unified Storage

WHY ORACLE?

INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP

Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance product line delivers leadership value for organizations using unified storage to implement cloud computing, virtualization, fixed-content serving, data-protection and storage-consolidation environments. The product line enables the rapid deployment of new revenue-producing applications and lowers expenses by reducing storage complexity and its associated administrative costs.

Benefits:

Simplified storage administration with the industry’s most comprehensive and intuitive storage analytics and browser-based management
Improved datacenter efficiency and lower costs with industry-leading unified storage density
Simplified storage deployments with file and block I/O consolidated onto a single high-capacity, high-performance storage appliance
A rich suite of integrated data services and storage management software included at no extra cost
Improved data protection with industry-leading error detection and self-healing technologies that reduce the risk of data loss and system downtime

The Sun ZFS Storage Appliance product line combines industry-leading performance, density, and storage analytics with an innovative storage architecture and unparalleled ease of deployment and use.

#1 unified storage management environment: one-third easier to manage than competitive solutions
#1 storage analytics environment: Most powerful, intuitive, visual solution
#1 unified storage density: 1.6x higher than competitive systems
#1 use of DRAM and Flash caches to accelerate data access: Transparent access to up to 6.7TB of fast-access media in Hybrid Storage Pools
#1 efficiency for primary storage: Only solution with both inline deduplication and inline compression
Most powerful unified storage controllers: Enables concurrent utilization of multiple data services
Industry’s best TCO with up to one-third less CAPEX and OPEX

SUN ZFS STORAGE APPLIANCE PRODUCTS

SUN ZFS STORAGE APPLIANCE SOLUTIONS

ONLY ORACLE OFFERS SIGNIFICANT BENEFITS

Capability	Benefit	Result
Industry-leading performance	Accelerates business performance, speeding time to market	Increased productivity and competitiveness
Industry-leading density	Reduces space requirements	Lower datacenter costs
Rich set of data services and network protocol support included with every system	Provides a single-vendor solution with high out-of-the-box functionality	Minimizing investments in add-on software reduces costs
Hybrid storage pools	Automates the use of enterprise Flash technology with high-capacity disk drives for optimum storage performance and efficiency	Combining high-performance Flash SSDs with high-capacity and low-cost standard disks reduces costs
Integrated storage management	Optimizes storage performance and utilization	Easy-to-use management of storage devices and services reduces costs
Integrated storage analytics	Understands and manages the performance of storage resources from the user, file, and system perspective	Getting the most out of your storage and application investments accelerates business performance
System management tasks are faster and less complex vs. competitive systems	Higher administrative productivity	Contain costs and re-allocate resources to support revenue-generating activities
ZFS file system with advanced error detection and self-healing capabilities	Eliminates silent data corruption, detects faults, and takes proactive action to eliminate their reoccurrence	Reduced risk with improved error detection and automated remediation, and reduced costs with virtually unlimited file system expandability
Built-in, inline deduplication combined with ZFS compression	Reduces storage consumption as data is being written (inline) without extra overhead, and provides multiplicative space savings with four types of integrated compression	Significant cost and space savings with file-based data in storage consolidation, virtualization, and other data-intensive environments
Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Integration	Enables an integrated Oracle database to Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance view and provides monitoring of multiple storage systems from a single pane	Eases management of multiple Sun ZFS Storage Appliance systems in Oracle database environments, and includes provisioning of capacity and different SLA levels
Simultaneous multiprotocol support across multiple network interconnects	Consolidates multiple storage interconnects (GbE, 10GbE, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand IB) into one system, simplifying storage deployment and reducing risk	Single platform supporting multiple application environments simplifies storage deployment and reduces administration costs

CUSTOMER RESULTS

"Thanks to the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, EasySpeedy can cost-effectively scale data storage on demand to meet the needs of customers. What is more, the platform helps minimize power consumption and makes day-to-day management simple."
—Peter Lerche, Chief Executive Officer, EasySpeedy

"Most users can gain considerable benefits from the latest enhancements to Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, such as inline deduplication and compression, while the addition of Fibre Channel connectivity extends the 'unifying' and consolidation flexibility of the ZFS Storage Appliance. However, the wider interest is to see Oracle realizing some of the potential from the Sun storage portfolio it acquired. In Oracle's hands the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance looks not only well-suited to current market needs, based on delivering simplicity with value, but also has a far better execution capability."
—Mark Peters, Senior Analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group