Oracle and HP have developed reference configurations in
order to accelerate implementation by IT departments of Oracle
Database 10g-based data warehouses on HP servers and
storage.
The reference configurations are designed to help customers get
the database, server and storage mix they need, right out of the
gates. These configurations have a sliding scale to optimise data
warehouse systems for either raw performance or price performance.
The companies say that this approach can help cut weeks out of the
buying cycle for even greater ease of doing business with HP and
Oracle, and speed time to implementation.
To avoid typical bottlenecks, each configuration defines a
matched set of servers and storage that balances I/O throughput
seamlessly across all components to yield consistently high
performance for complex queries running against large data
warehouses.
Customers can make quick and accurate infrastructure decisions
with guidance on the right combination of servers and disk arrays.
From a single server to scale-out server clusters running Linux and
scale-up Superdome servers running HP, the configurations cover
data warehouses ranging in size from 250Gbytes to 10Tbytes.
“We’ve worked closely to ensure that joint customers can benefit
from the high performance, reliability and scalability of Oracle
Database 10g on a choice of proven HP server and storage
configurations,” says Willie Hardie, vice-president of database
product marketing, Oracle.
“We’re offering customers a choice of reference configurations
to meet their immediate requirements and a roadmap that enables
their Oracle and HP solution to grow with them.”