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3 Steps to Modernize Your Oracle Data Center

3 Steps to Modernize Your Oracle Data Center

Running Oracle in your data center often presents storage challenges. Frustratingly, solving one challenge often leaves you dealing with another. Here are three steps to help you modernize your infrastructure with flash to achieve better performance and scale while saving on costs.

June 30, 2016 • 5 min read Data

Turn Big Data into Fast Data Using Oracle NoSQL and Fusion ioMemory

Turn Big Data into Fast Data Using Oracle NoSQL and Fusion ioMemory

NoSQL database systems need to be cost effective so they can scale appropriately and deliver a good return on investment. Prasad Venkatachar compares the performance acceleration and consolidation cost benefits of Fusion ioMemory vs. hard disk drives.

October 23, 2015 • 7 min read Data

SanDisk® Flash Building Blocks for Oracle Database 12c

SanDisk® Flash Building Blocks for Oracle Database 12c

Oracle OpenWorld is just around the corner, taking place from Oct 25 to 29. Like last year, I will be blogging about all the interesting and exciting SanDisk® Oracle solutions we have built for Oracle OpenWorld! So keep an eye out over the coming weeks, or sign up for our email updates, as I’ll be […]

October 15, 2015 • 7 min read Data

Deploying Oracle databases on Scalable VMware Virtual SAN 6

Deploying Oracle databases on Scalable VMware Virtual SAN 6

Working with Oracle database deployments, from earlier versions such as Oracle 7x to the latest Oracle database 12c , I have witnessed how storage systems have evolved to support Oracle database critical workloads. Previously, traditional storage arrays, built with spinning hard disk drives, were able to manage the performance requirements. But the increase in the […]

September 2, 2015 • 5 min read Data

Cisco Live 2015: Oracle Database Acceleration Powered by Cisco UCS and SanDisk® Flash

Cisco Live 2015: Oracle Database Acceleration Powered by Cisco UCS and SanDisk® Flash

Cisco Live 2015 is taking place next week in San Diego and we’re excited to share a new solution and present in the educational training zone! Cisco and SanDisk® have been working on a high performance Oracle Database 12c solution, powered by the latest UCS B420 M4 blade server and Fusion ioMemory PX600 flash application […]

June 6, 2015 • 4 min read Data

What Are Your Flash Journey Plans With Oracle Database 12c?

What Are Your Flash Journey Plans With Oracle Database 12c?

With the sun setting on Oracle Database 11g premier support, customers will soon begin seeing additional support costs through the Extended Support program. It’s time for Oracle customers to start planning large data center migrations to an Oracle database 12c environment. The complete details of support specific to various versions of Oracle 11g can be found […]

May 7, 2015 • 5 min read Data

SanDisk® Lightning SSD Now Oracle Solaris and SPARC Server Compatible

SanDisk® Lightning SSD Now Oracle Solaris and SPARC Server Compatible

One easy and transparent way to improve I/O performance and reliability of any computing platform is to replace or augment existing spinning disk drives with SSDs. But SSDs are not a ‘one size fits all’ solution. There are plentiful choices, and not all are created equal. Due to the diversity in components and variations in […]

April 29, 2015 • 4 min read Data

Oracle OpenWorld – Past, Present and Future: Your Event Guide From an OOW Veteran

Oracle OpenWorld – Past, Present and Future: Your Event Guide From an OOW Veteran

Marcel Proust had his memoir—“Remembrance of Things Past”—to re-live all that had gone before. The entire novel was accompanied by a stream of memories from the still-rather-young author, who has been snacking on madeleine cookies and drinking café au lait. It is a work of seven volumes, with many hundreds of characters appearing throughout—a march […]

September 26, 2014 • 8 min read Data