Tech behemoth Oracle has introduced in the country the ZS3 Series, which is touted as having the highest throughput, lowest latency, and better price/performance when compared to similar NetApp, EMC, IBM, and HP systems.
To simplify Oracle Database deployments, increase database performance, and reduce storage requirements, the ZS3 Series takes advantage of Oracle-only storage features and capabilities:
? The new Oracle Intelligent Storage Protocol (OISP) automates Oracle Database tuning and administration. Through OISP, Oracle Database 12c communicates metadata to the Oracle ZS3 storage which can automate tuning, reducing manual processes by 65 percent, while optimizing database performance and eliminating human error. 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 lifecycle 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, handling extremely highly threaded I/O which saturates conventional NAS filers, leading to filer sprawl.
Oracle said the ZS3 is the only storage system with real-time, dynamic application-aware performance and health analytics, enabling customers to visualize CPU, cache, protocol, disk, memory, networking and system-related data ? all at the same time.
“With the launch of Oracle ZS3, customers can experience Tier 1 performance at Tier 3 pricing — that?s doing more with less,? said Leong Kam Hong, storage product director for ASEAN at Oracle. ?In addition, we work very well with Oracle applications as well as non-Oracle applications which can also get performance benefits from Oracle storage.?
?Others can integrate, some can optimize but only Oracle can Engineer because of the fact that Oracle is an organization that owns the whole stack ? we have storage, we have server, we have network, we have database, we have applications, we have middleware. We can make sure that our storage is engineered across the whole stack.?
An independent study showed that DTrace Storage Analytics, a standard feature of Oracle ZFS storage appliances, enables customers to troubleshoot 44 percent faster with 38 percent less complexity than NetApp FAS3270, resulting in estimated savings in admin costs up to $27,000 per system per year.
The ZS3 Series features an enhanced Hybrid Storage Pools cache design delivering a 4x increase in space efficiency for better caching of critical data and write performance enhancements that deliver a consistent low-latency response time.
The ZS3 Hybrid Storage Pools architecture has been flash optimized and multi-core enabled since 2008 and the latest iteration delivers a 2x improvement in overall response time over the prior generation.
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.
