Oracle Application

Engineered Storage:
Innovation for Private Clouds
and Virtualization
See What Customers Are Achieving
with Oracle Storage Solutions

CHAPTER 1

THE BEST STORAGE FOR CLOUD AND VIRTUALIZATION

CHAPTER 2

APPLICATION ENGINEERED STORAGE FOR CLOUD

SERVICE PROVIDERS

CHAPTER 3

APPLICATION ENGINEERED STORAGE FOR PRIVATE

CLOUDS AND VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTS

CHAPTER 4

APPLICATION ENGINEERED STORAGE FOR

VIRTUAL DESKTOPS

RESOURCES

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CHAPTER ONE

THE BEST STORAGE

FOR CLOUD AND VIRTUALIZATION
Oracles industry-leading application
engineered storage solutions provide
powerful, scalable platforms for
secure, cloud environments and
server and application virtualization
by reducing complexity, simplifying
management, reducing costs, and
delivering world-class data protection.

This e-book explores success stories

from across the globe to reveal
how Oracles storage solutions
have helped organizations achieve
remarkableresults.

Cloud Service Providers:

Greater reliability, availability,
and flexibility
Increased user productivity
Simplified administration
and reduced costs
Enhanced data protection

Virtualized Environments and

Private Clouds:
Lower energy, space, and
management costs
Faster, simpler storage provisioning
Improved application availability
and performance
Increased application integration

CHAPTER TWO

APPLICATION ENGINEERED STORAGE

FOR CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDERS
Delivering cloud services brings many
challenges, as end users demand
greater application availability,
increased storage agility, and rigorous
data protection. To meet these
challenges, organizations need a
cost-effective storage solution that
supports the delivery of cloud services,
reduces costs, improves productivity,
and simplifies data-center management.

Oracles ZFS Storage Appliance,

Pillar Axiom storage systems, and
StorageTek tape products provide
powerful solutions for deploying
and managing storage for cloud
services, reducing storage footprints,
and lowering TCO through the data
lifecycle. Advanced analytics provide
clear and deep insight into virtual
machine storage workloads, making
it easier to maintain the reliability
and availability of the cloud storage
environment and improving both IT and
end user productivity. For cloud service
providers handling large amounts
of data that needs to be archived
or retained for long periods of time,
Oracles StorageTek tape products
provide a reliable and cost
effective solution.

 Improve application and data

reliability and availability.
Enhance business-critical application
and storage agility.
B
oost operational efficiency in
storage environments.
S
implify administration and reduce
operating costs.
Reinforce data security and integrity.
S
peed Oracle applications with
Oracle unique co-engineering
advantages.

Customers Say

iDATAWORKS, INC.

Oracles Sun ZFS Storage 7320

has given us tremendous flexibility
and has played a critical role in
driving our revenue this year.
From a storage perspective, we
can quickly onboard clients who
we could not have served before.
And, from an analytics perspective,
Sun ZFS Storage was miles
above everything else we
evaluated.
Skip Khasky,
President, iDataWorks, Inc.

With Oracles application engineered

storage solutions, cloud services
providers can:

R
educe risk with products proven
in Oracles own demanding IT and
cloud service environments.

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CHAPTER TWO cont.

iDataWorks, Inc. provides hosted,

managed, and outsourced IT solutions
with a focus on midsize businesses.
To ensure the level of availability and
scalability that its managed IT services
clients need, iDataWorks required
a reliable, high-availability, and
cost-effective storage environment.
Using Oracles ZFS Storage Appliance,
iDataWorks consolidated its
Fibre-Channel, block-level storage,
and NAS, significantly increasing
performance, simplifying management,
and decreasing costs.

Oracles ZFS Storage 7320 appliance

enabled iDataWorks, Inc. to:
Increase its customers ERP
applications performance by
more than 35 percent
Reduce storage latency to under
one millisecond
Cut management costs by
38 percent over a comparable
NetApp solution
Eliminate downtime during
regular maintenance

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Customers Say

NAVIS, LLC

Weve worked with Oracle

for the last 20 years and are
constantly impressed with its
solutions and support. Oracles
Pillar Axiom 600 and tape storage
solutions, including StorageTek
SL3000 modular library system
with T10000C tape drives, have
enabled us to stay aligned with our
return-on-investment goals and
meet customer needs for a virtual,
high-performing, and flexible
terminal operating system.

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Stephen Schleiger, Manager of

Systems Engineering, Navis, LLC

CHAPTER TWO cont.

Navis provides software that manages

cargo movement through terminals,
and approximately 26 percent of
containers that move anywhere in the
world are managed by a Navis solution.
As demand for the companys terminal
operating system (TOS) increased,
Naviss physical storage capacity needs
increased significantly. Navis selected
Oracles Pillar Axiom 600 to create
a virtualized TOS that is adaptable
to any clients IT architecture, easy
for engineers to install, and reduces
physical server needs. In addition,
Navis implemented Sun Storage
Archive Manager so it could optimize
disk performance around real-time
needs and use Oracles StorageTek
SL3000 modular library system with
StorageTek T10000C tape drives as the
low-cost tier in its archive.

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Oracles Pillar Axiom 600 and

StorageTek tape systems helped
Navis to:
Consolidate physical storage and
reduce data-center footprint
Deliver optimal performance for all
virtual TOS instances
Enhance data-recovery capabilities
Enable rapid access to critical data
R
educe overall costs with a tape
storage tier

Customers Say

GREE, INC.

The Sun ZFS Storage 7420

appliance provides a powerful,
tier 1 storage infrastructure for
GREEs business operations,
as we strive to reflect results
of log-data analysis regarding
qualitative improvements to
our social-media services.
Our aim is to be the
leader in the fiercely
competitive, global,
social platforms industry.

Kouhei Mori, General

Manager, Systems Coordination
Department, Development
Headquarters, GREE, Inc.

GREE, Inc. is one of Japans leading

social-networking service operators.
The company builds mobile, socialgaming ecosystems, with a network
that reaches more than 230 million
players around the world.
To support its new global,
mobile-gaming platform, GREE has
to ensure it can store and analyze
growing volumes of log data
information on the number of game
players, the applications they use,
and how frequently they access the
gaming platform.
Oracles Sun ZFS Storage 7420
appliance allowed GREE to:
Achieve 40 Gb/sec connectivity
Enable low cost-per-terabyte storage

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Deliver better performance for the

same cost as its legacy solution
Track, process, and analyze data
from tens of millions of users
Build a scalable platform to support
future data growth

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CHAPTER TWO cont.

Customers Say

iBRIDGE LLC

Oracles Pillar Axiom 600 storage

system costs less, and it provides
better performance and greater
support than any other vendors
product we evaluated. Other
systems we reviewed did not offer
as much support or flexibility,
and would not, based on our
assessment, provide as
much return on investment.

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Desh Urs, CEO &

President, iBridge LLC

iBridge specializes in perfecting a

companys data and managing its
information to provide valuable insights
for management decision support.
iBridges customers require large
amounts of bandwidth and storage,
as well as extensive data-manipulation
capabilities and robust data security.
The company needed a worldclass storage system for its new
US-based data center that would
scale seamlessly while assuring
uninterrupted access to vital
information. The company selected
Oracles Pillar Axiom 600 storage
system for its unmatched capacity
utilization, scalability, and redundancy,
and simplified management, as well
as Oracles deep understanding of the
unique requirements of the managed
IT services business model.

Oracles Pillar Axiom 600 enabled

iBridge to:
Accommodate its five-year growth
projections
Reduce administrative costs by
70 percent compared to its other
data centers
Expand its infrastructure up to
1.6 petabytes of raw capacity
Keep pace with increasing customer
demand for rapid access to large
quantities of data

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CHAPTER TWO cont.

Customers Say

XSTREAM A/S

Oracles storage solution, based on

Sun ZFS Storage 7420 appliances,
made it possible for us to grow.
Its flexibility enabled us to deliver
greater storage performance,
higher levels of availability and
throughput, as well as new online
video platforms to our
telecommunications, cableTV broadcaster, and online
media customers.

Frank Thorup, Chief

Executive Officer, Xstream A/S

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Xstream A/S is a Danish online

provider of video services and
end-to-end video-management
software. The company stores and
streams online videos and movies
provided by its telecommunications,
cable-TV broadcaster, and online
media customers.
Because of rising customer demand
for online videos and movies, Xstream
wanted a storage solution that would
meet its high requirements for
performance, flexibility, availability,
and scalability. It was crucial for
the company to find a solution
with Network File System (NFS)
capabilities, directly out-of-the-box,
as well as very large and scalable
amounts of cache memory.

Oracles Sun ZFS Storage 7420

appliances helped Xstream to:
Expand available disk space to
60 terabytes
Enable future expansion up to 600
terabytes to keep up with demand
Provide a reliable, high-performance
storage and streaming service
Ensure uninterrupted service

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CHAPTER TWO cont.

Customers Say

T3MEDIA

Considering the extensive list

of films, advertisements, and
clips we store for our clients, we
require a storage solution that
efficiently, cost-effectively, and
securely digitizes those assets
while ensuring the ability to quickly
scale as we continue to grow.
Oracles StorageTek solutions fit
our needs perfectly, providing an
integrated architecture that ensures
we can store many terabytes
daily and manage hundreds
of thousands of assets
effectively and efficiently.

Brian Noecker, Vice President,

Information Technology, T3Media

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T3Media offers cloud-based storage,

access, and licensing for enterprisescale video libraries, enabling media
owners to generate new value from
their content while managing cost
and complexity.
The company needed to deploy a cloudbased, digital storage environment
that was cost-effective, accessible,
and scalable. Because many
T3Media clients are in the media and
entertainment industrywith digital
assets that have more than a 30-year
lifespanthe company also needed to
ensure short- and long-term integrity for
the content it is trusted to store.

After reviewing many vendors, T3Media

deployed a storage environment built on
Oracles StorageTek and Sun Storage.
Oracles StorageTek tape products,
Oracle disk storage and Sun Storage
Archive Manager software enabled
T3Media to:
Archive more than 100,000 media
assets per year
Add storage incrementally, on a
per-customer basis
Realize a 35x performance
improvement over its legacy
disk storage
Save at least 25 percent in
fiber duplication and card and
management infrastructure costs

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CHAPTER THREE

APPLICATION ENGINEERED STORAGE FOR

PRIVATE CLOUDS AND VIRTUALIZED
ENVIRONMENTS
Managing the impact of rapid data
growth and sprawling, multi-vendor
data centers can be costly and
time-consuming. Virtualization is a
great way to meet these challenges,
and many organizations are now
taking advantage of their virtualization
infrastructure and deploying
private clouds to further streamline
management, reduce costs, and
increase efficiency and productivity.

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Oracles application engineered

storage solutions provide unrivaled
performance and storage efficiency
that increase capacity utilization and
improve the management, availability,
and security of data.

Oracles ZFS Storage Appliance

family, Pillar Axiom 600 storage
systems, and offer a range of
breakthrough features to facilitate
the effective management of
storage in private clouds and
virtualized environments, helping
organizations to:

Run thousands of VMs and multiple
hypervisorsVMware, HyperV,
OVMon a single storage server

Reduce the time and complexity

of storage provisioning
Gain actionable deep insight into
business-critical storage workloads
in virtual machines
Improve application availability
and performance

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Consolidate storage to reduce

power, cooling, space, and
management costs
Increase data-center and
business-application productivity

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CHAPTER THREE cont.

Customers Say

LAMCOS-INSA

Oracles Pillar Axiom 600 storage

enables us to further develop and
modernize our infrastructure, while
reducing hardware investments.
This solution allows us to
enhance our storage needs
with peace of mind.

Jean Michel Dumont,

CNRS (Centre national de la
recherche scientifique) Research
Engineer, IT Service Manager,
LaMCoS-INSA

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LaMCoS-INSA, is a multidisciplinary
research laboratory based in France,
focused on contact and structural
mechanics. Its research projects
help to shape more effective and
environmentally friendly industrial
processes for Europes automotive,
transportation and energy sectors.
The laboratory wanted to update
its storage architecture to meet
researcher needs for data-intensive
computing, data integrity, and security.
In addition, it wanted to reduce its
hardware investment and develop
an infrastructure that would support
future data growth.

Oracles Pillar Axiom 600 enabled

LaMCoS-INSA to:
Consolidate storage of all research
data into a single array
Dynamically allocate storage with
100-percent-guaranteed availability
Provide efficient access to
computational results from all
workstations on a single server
Support mobile workers with
centralized, automatic backup on
a single storage system

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CHAPTER THREE cont.

Customers Say

M&R PRINTING EQUIPMENT INC.

Our deployment of Oracles Sun

ZFS Storage 7320 appliance was
a key part of a larger IT initiative
in which we also virtualized and
consolidated almost two dozen
physical servers. This initiative has
been an enormous success, as
weve achieved significant savings
and gained scalability, as well
as unimaginable flexibility
and performance in our IT
environment.

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Jason Coe, IT Manager, M&R

Printing Equipment Inc.

M&R Printing Equipment Inc. is

the worlds largest manufacturer of
screen- printing equipment for the
graphic and textile industries, with
distributors and support operations
across the globe.
M&Rs legacy hardware infrastructure
showed signs of aging and users
were experiencing system failures and
slowdowns. The company wanted
to modernize and take advantage of
virtualization to improve scalability and
performance while reducing costs.
M&R chose Oracles Sun ZFS Storage
7320 appliance as the foundation for a
shared storage environment.

Oracles ZFS Storage 7320

appliance enabled M&R to:
Shrink its storage footprint
by 58 percent
Increase raw capacity
by 278 percent
Reduce data-center energy
consumption and cooling
costs by 52 percent
C
reate production environments
in minutes instead of weeks

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CHAPTER FOUR

APPLICATION ENGINEERED STORAGE

FOR VIRTUAL DESKTOPS
Many organizations have hundreds
or even thousands of desktop
systems, creating extremely complex
environments that often lack the
flexibility and security to meet growing
business demandsincreasing costs,
impeding user productivity, and putting
data at risk.

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With Oracle Virtual Desktop

Infrastructure and the Oracle ZFS
Storage Appliance, organizations can
deploy a cost-effective, secure virtual
desktop environment that reduces
costs, improves productivity, and
streamlines data-center management.

Combining the performance of

the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance
with the enhanced management
capabilities of Oracle Virtual
Desktop Infrastructure provides
a robust platform for virtual
desktop deployments, enabling
organizations to:
Gain complete visibility of businesscritical desktop storage workloads

I ncrease storage efficiency with

de-duplication, thin provisioning,
and compression
B
oost productivity with accelerated
provisioning and deployment of
virtual desktops
I mprove reliability and availability
through rapid diagnosis and response

I mprove user productivity and

enhance data protection through
virtually unlimited snapshots, clones,
and replication

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CHAPTER FOUR cont.

MAINSTREET BANK

MainStreet Bank is a community bank

offering in-person and online banking
services to businesses and consumers
in Northern Virginia.

Oracle Virtual Desktop

Infrastructure, Sun Ray Clients,
and Oracles Sun ZFS Storage 7320
appliance provide many benefits,
including reduced costs, improved
access for our users, enhanced
security, and reduced technical
complexity. Also, the Oracle Virtual
Desktop Client application for iPad
not only is a wow factor for
our customers, but it also
helps us continue to serve as
a technology leader among
community banks.

After doubling its branches and the

number of employees in the last
few years while facing a growing
demand from customers to deliver
advanced banking services, MainStreet
Bank deployed virtual desktop
infrastructure to increase desktop
security, protect sensitive banking
data, enhance service-delivery agility,
enable employees to use their own
computers and mobile devices, and
reduce operational costs.

Customers Say

Matt McCrory, Systems Engineer,

MainStreet Bank

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Virtual desktop infrastructure 3.3

and Oracles Sun ZFS Storage 7320
appliance enabled MainStreet
Bank to:
Provide employees with a seamless
user experience
Centralize storage to provide
cost-effective data protection for
all virtual desktops
Reduce the time needed to add a
new workstation from up to two
days to just four hours
Support remote working for
critical employees
Simplify IT management and
reduce costs

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CHAPTER FOUR cont.

Customers Say

GUNSAN CITY HALL

We wanted a virtual desktop

environment to promote lowcarbon green growth and prevent
personal information leaks. Oracles
virtualization products have helped
us, so that we anticipate saving
US$90,000 per annum in energy
and fuel costs, as we strengthen
security for important data, realize a
smart office environment, and
become a good role model for
information best practices in
public institutions.

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Cha Jeong-hee, Information

and Communications Officer,
Gunsan City Hall

Gunsan City Hall is the administrative

center of Gunsan, a large city in South
Korea. The institution manages local
government administration, port
economies, resident living support,
construction, and transport. It also
operates centers for public health,
agriculture, water and sewage, and
facility management.
Gunsan City Hall needed to deploy a
new IT infrastructure to avoid having to
replace around 300 PCs each year, and
to reinforce security for the sensitive
citizen data its systems hold.

The new Oracle infrastructure,

including Oracle Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure and Oracles Sun ZFS
Storage 7420 appliance, enabled
Gunsan City Hall to:
Enhance security for residents
personal information
Cut system recovery time from one
day to just 20 minutes
Save approximately US$90,000 a
year in energy, travel, and fuel costs
Provide a smarter, healthier working
environment for employees

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