Oracle and Sun have collaborated to streamline deployment of data warehousing systems.
Oracle- Sun Information Appliance Foundations, allow their customers to reduce risk and deployment time of data warehousing solutions, based on Oracle (r) Database 10 g and Sun servers, storage and Solaris 10 Operating Systems (OS).
The foundations offer multiple solutions for each set of requirements allowing customers to choose among vertical (single server systems), horizontal (clustered server systems) configurations and SPARC(tm) or x64 (x86, 64-bit) architectures running Solaris(tm) or other supported operating systems. It also covers Sun's StorageTek disk arrays.
The foundations are reference configurations that provide a recommended database, server and storage mix for a customer's specific requirements. Its data warehouse solution can decrease customer's buying cycle by weeks and streamline data warehouse solutions. The configurations have combined CPU resources, memory, I/O bandwidth and disks into a design that will help prevent performance or capacity bottlenecks. These configurations have the capability to handle data warehouses ranging from 300 gigabytes to 10 terabytes and from light to heavy workloads.
"Sun and Oracle's joint effort improves architecture design and selection processes for IT departments, making it easy to implement well-designed, right-sized data warehouse solutions built upon Sun's robust infrastructure offerings including the Solaris 10 operating system," said Juan Carlos Soto, VP, Market Development, Sun.
"These foundations are designed to help take the risk out of building a data warehouse that can meet short term requirements and provide a path for future growth. This announcement marks another significant milestone in delivering business value for Sun and Oracle customers," said Willie Hardie, VP, Database Product Marketing, Oracle.
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