Executive Brief June 2014

Size: px
Start display at page:

Download "Executive Brief June 2014"

Transcription

1 (707) Executive Brief June 2014 Comparing IBM Power Systems to Cost/Benefit Case for Transactional Applications Introduction Demand for transaction processing solutions continues to grow. Although topics such as analytics, clouds and Big Data tend to dominate headlines, transactional workloads are expanding in most organizations. There is a steady momentum of new deployments and legacy replacements in enterprise resource planning (ERP), transactional e- commerce and a wide range of other business-critical systems. Most transaction processing systems continue to be deployed on UNIX or x86 servers, although Oracle has also targeted its Exadata Database Machine at this space. Oracle s commitment to this platform, its appeal to many organizations with major investments in Oracle and Oracle-based software, and the company s aggressive marketing have made Exadata an increasingly visible contender. Exadata can clearly run transactional applications. Any server can. The real question is whether it can do so in a cost-effective manner. That question is the focus of this report. It compares three-year costs for use of Exadata systems and the industry s dominant UNIX server platform, IBM Power Systems, for comparable transaction processing solutions. It draws upon the experiences of organizations that have deployed such solutions on both platforms. Comparisons are based on a set of 25 profile installations employing Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, PeopleSoft and Retail solutions. Installations were in manufacturing (12), agribusiness, distribution, engineering and construction, health care, media, retail and IT services companies, and government agencies. Organizations ranged from 150 to more than 40,000 employees. Profiles were constructed from a broader survey of 127 organizations in the same industries, with generally similar business profiles and numbers of employees, which had deployed one or more of these solutions on Oracle Exadata or IBM Power Systems. International Technology Group 609 Pacific Avenue, Suite 102 Santa Cruz, California Telephone: Contact@ITGforInfo.com Website: ITGforInfo.com

2 Comparing Cost Effectiveness Summary of Results Overall results of cost comparisons are summarized in figure 1. Even allowing for aggressive Oracle discounting, costs for use of Power Systems for all solutions averaged 31 percent less than for Exadata systems. IBM Power Systems & disk arrays Oracle Exadata Database Machine 1,436.1 $ thousands System acquisition & support Enterprise software licenses & support Systems software licenses & support Energy Figure 1: Average Three-year Costs for Use of IBM Power Systems and for Transactional Solutions Costs include system acquisition and maintenance, licenses and support for systems as well as Oracle enterprise software and energy costs. Systems software includes operating systems and (for Power Systems) PowerVM virtualization. Enterprise software includes Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) and other tools that must be separately licensed for use with Exadata. Power Systems are configured with the same enterprise software. Comparisons are between latest-generation Exadata X4-2 eighth-, quarter- and half-rack High Performance models; and IBM POWER7+-based systems with between 4 and 64 cores, the AIX operating system and PowerVM virtualization. Power Systems are supported by IBM Storwize, XIV Storage System or System Storage DS8870 disk arrays, configured as tiered systems with solid state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs). Comparisons are for production systems only. Most organizations also employed separate platforms for test, development, quality assurance and other non-production functions, and as failover systems. All calculations except those for energy consumption are based on discounted prices as reported by users. As the Exadata X4 series is comparatively new (it was introduced in December 2013), many users employed older Exadata models. Configurations were updated based on International Technology Group (ITG) estimates of comparative transactional performance. Older Power Systems and disk arrays were also updated to latestgeneration models based on comparative transactional performance and used capacity respectively. Personnel and installation costs are not included. As the same Oracle software suites were deployed on both platforms, personnel costs for database administrators (DBAs) and application specialists were similar, and there was no obvious difference in full time equivalent (FTE) staffing for server and storage administration tasks. Although claims have been made that Exadata systems can be started up more rapidly than conventional servers and disk arrays, actual times for both varied widely. The speed at which both were brought into production depended on a number of factors, including the extent to which systems were preconfigured, tested and tuned for application- and user-specific requirements. Where this was the case for Power servers and IBM disk arrays, start-up times and costs in comparable installations were generally similar to those for Exadata. Comparing IBM Power Systems to 2

3 Cost Variations Although results were generally consistent for all types of solutions, there were a number of variations between system sizes and applications. As figure 2 illustrates, the largest disparities were in installations with fewer than 1,000 active users. In those with over 1,000, use of more expensive IBM high-end Power 770 and 780 servers and DS8870 disk arrays resulted in closer three-year costs. Number of Active Users < , , ,452.2 IBM Power Systems & disk arrays 2, ,636.3 $ thousands Figure 2: Average Three-year Costs for Use of IBM Power Systems and by Numbers of Active Users Three-year costs for use of Power Systems averaged 63 percent less for installations with fewer than 250 users, 50 percent less for 250 to 499 users, 27 percent less for 500 to 999 users and 16 percent less for 1,000+ users. (Numbers of active users is an approximate measurement of comparative performance. Although interactive workloads are generally similar, this metric does not allow for batch processing. Numbers of active users is, however, widely employed as a configuration sizing parameter for ERP solutions, and provides at least a general standard for comparison.) A breakdown of comparative costs by size of Oracle Exadata platform shows a similar picture. As figure 3 illustrates, the largest disparities were where Power Systems acted as alternatives to eighth- and quarter-rack Exadata models. Higher comparative costs for Power Systems equivalent to half-rack models again reflect the use of IBM Power 770 and 780 servers and DS8870 disk arrays in this bracket. Oracle Exadata Rack Size Eighth Quarter Half ,517.8 IBM Power Systems & disk arrays 2, ,861.0 $ thousands Figure 3: Average Three-year Costs for Use of IBM Power Systems and Oracle Exadata Database Platform by Oracle Exadata Rack Size Comparing IBM Power Systems to 3

4 Three-year costs for Power Systems employed as alternatives to Exadata eighth-rack models averaged 41 percent less, while costs for quarter- and half-rack equivalents averaged 46 percent and 13 percent respectively. Three-year Power Systems costs for deployment of Oracle E-Business Suite averaged 42 percent less than for use of Exadata, while JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, PeopleSoft and Retail solutions averaged 27 percent, 21 percent and 30 percent less respectively. Key Differentiators Lower system costs for IBM platforms than for Exadata reflect a number of factors. These include differences in two key areas: 1. Technology. Power Systems employ a general-purpose UNIX server architecture. They incorporate a variety of IBM innovations in cache, I/O, main memory, system-level performance optimization and other areas. PowerVM virtualization, AIX system management, and Power Systems and AIX availability features are recognized industry leaders. In comparison, Exadata is a specialized appliance. It is promoted by Oracle for data warehousing, transaction processing and database consolidation. The core design and most key features are, however, optimized for high-volume, scan-intensive analytical workloads requiring high levels of read I/O performance and throughput. The characteristics of transactional workloads are, however, significantly different. Transactions involve frequent reads and writes to a few rows of data at a time, rather than sequential scans of large volumes. Databases are also typically smaller than for analytical systems, and I/Os involve smaller blocks of data. Although Oracle has boosted Exadata transactional performance with its Write Back Flash Cache feature, this is an overlay on an architecture designed for a different purpose. Most distinctive Exadata features enable levels of I/Os per second (IOPS) and bandwidth that exceed by wide margins the requirements of all but the largest transactional users. As a transaction processing system, Exadata capabilities are not significantly better than those of generalpurpose servers. Its costs, however, are a great deal higher. This is also the case for database consolidation applications. A further difference is that Exadata does not employ virtualization. It supports multiple application and workloads through conventional timesharing techniques. Management mechanisms are database-centric and, in comparison with those of Power Systems, rudimentary. In comparison, PowerVM for Power Systems is one of the industry s most sophisticated server virtualization architectures. Management mechanisms are tightly integrated, and are among the most granular and effective in existence. These and other technology differences are discussed in more detail in the following section. 2. Packaging and pricing. Although Exadata can in principle be configured with 20 or more racks, in practice most sales have been of eighth- and quarter-rack models. In the new X4 series, these are configured with 24 and 48 Intel database server cores respectively. Larger half- and full-rack systems are configured with 96 and 192. In comparison, Power Systems offer more granular increments. Calculations presented in this report, for example, include use of 4-, 8-, 12-, 16-, 24-, 32-, 48- and 64-core models. Comparing IBM Power Systems to 4

5 Lack of configuration granularity affects Exadata costs not only for the system itself, but also for the enterprise software suite including Oracle Database, RAC and other tools which are licensed based on numbers of database server cores. Oracle s move from four-to-six core database processors has tended to increase costs. The entry-level X4-2 eighth-rack model, for example, has 24 cores. Its predecessor had 16. The effects of higher Power Systems granularity are particularly apparent in smaller installations, where many users surveyed for this report employed four- to eight-core models. Higher granularity also, however, contributed to substantial cost differences in larger deployments. In terms of storage, use of disk arrays with Power Systems also offers greater configuration flexibility. Storage tiers and media may be varied to meet the needs of individual users. Flash memory, in the form of SSDs, can also be employed in Power Systems and in IBM as well as third-party arrays attached to these. There are also significant variations between Exadata systems, and Power Systems and disk arrays in third-party support, availability optimization and other areas. Principal differences are summarized in figure 4. Core design Application & workload sharing Configurability Availability Optimization Database & operating system support Specialized hardware & software appliance. Designed for high-volume, scan-intensive analytical workloads requiring high levels of read I/O performance & throughput. Does not support use of virtual machines. Application & workload sharing is in timeshared mode using Oracle Database Resource Manager & I/O Resource Manager. Acts as database server only. Additional application servers may be required. Fixed ratio configurations of processor units, memory, flash devices, & high-performance SAS & Nearline SAS (NL-SAS) drives in system units. Offered in eighth-, quarter-, half- & full-rack models. Additional Storage Expansion Racks may be employed. Standard hardware reliability, availability & serviceability (RAS) features; RAID 10 with double or triple disk mirroring. Supports Oracle Database, Data Guard, Active Data Guard & Maximum Availability Architecture. Oracle Database 11g R2 & 12c. Oracle Linux & Solaris. IBM Power Systems & Disk Arrays General-purpose UNIX server & disk array designs. Can be configured & optimized for multiple types of application. Leader in industry benchmarks measuring transactional & data warehouse performance. Advanced server virtualization architecture. Supports multiple types of hardware- & software-based partitions, extensive resource sharing & integrated mixed workload management. May act as database & application server. Virtual machines allow both to be hosted on the same physical servers. Also supported by IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) solution for cross-platform, multivendor storage virtualization. Server & disk array units separately configurable with high levels of granularity. Servers support IBM & third-party arrays with wide range of SSDs & HDDs. Advanced hardware RAS & operating system-level availability optimization features. Servers & disk arrays support multiple RAID levels. Supports same Oracle availability solutions as Exadata. IBM & third-party solutions for high availability (HA) clustering, failover & recovery may also be employed. Oracle supported Databases: 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g & 12c. IBM DB2 & Informix, Sybase, others. IBM AIX & IBM i, RHEL & SLES. Figure 4: Principal Differences Between and IBM Power Systems with Disk Arrays Power Systems and disk arrays offer not only a more cost-effective, but also a more flexible alternative to Exadata for transaction processing. Systems may be configured in a more granular manner, using non-ibm hardware and software. Servers may host non-oracle software. Application and database serving may be handled by same physical platform. Disk arrays may be shared by multiple servers and applications. Comparing IBM Power Systems to 5

6 Power Systems also support a broader range of Oracle database versions than Exadata users are not required to migrate to Database 11g R2 or 12c and operating systems, including industry standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) distributions. Additional Information This ITG Executive Brief is based upon the results and methodology contained in a Management Report released by the International Technology Group. For copies of this Management Report, please requests to Contact@ITGforInfo.com. Copyright 2014 International Technology Group. All rights reserved. Material, in whole or part, contained in this document may not be reproduced or distributed by any means or in any form, including original, without the prior written permission of the International Technology Group (ITG). Information has been obtained from sources assumed to be reliable and reflects conclusions at the time. Although the document may utilize publicly available material from various sources, it does not necessarily reflect the positions of such sources on the issues addressed in this document. Material contained and conclusions presented in this document are subject to change without notice. All warranties as to the accuracy, completeness or adequacy of such material are disclaimed. There shall be no liability for errors, omissions or inadequacies in the material contained in this document or for interpretations thereof. Trademarks included in this document are the property of their respective owners. Comparing IBM Power Systems to 6 ORE03006-USEN-00

... IBM Advanced Technical Skills IBM Oracle International Competency Center September 2013

... IBM Advanced Technical Skills IBM Oracle International Competency Center September 2013 Performance benefits of IBM Power Systems and IBM FlashSystem for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne IBM Power 780 server with AIX and IBM FlashSystem 820 flash storage improves batch performance in a client proof

More information

ITG Executive Summary

ITG Executive Summary ITG Executive Summary January 2010 VALUE PROPOSITION FOR IBM POWER SYSTEMS SERVERS AND i: MINIMIZING COSTS AND RISKS FOR MIDSIZE BUSINESSES Challenges What challenges face today s midsize businesses? Competition.

More information

Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service Exadata Performance, Cloud Simplicity DATABASE CLOUD SERVICE

Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service Exadata Performance, Cloud Simplicity DATABASE CLOUD SERVICE Oracle Database Exadata Exadata Performance, Cloud Simplicity DATABASE CLOUD SERVICE Oracle Database Exadata combines the best database with the best cloud platform. Exadata is the culmination of more

More information

... Performance benefits of POWER6 processors and IBM i 6.1 for Oracle s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne A performance case study for the Donaldson Company

... Performance benefits of POWER6 processors and IBM i 6.1 for Oracle s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne A performance case study for the Donaldson Company Performance benefits of POWER6 processors and IBM i 6.1 for Oracle s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne A performance case study for the Donaldson Company........ Jim Denton i ERP Development Jos Vermaere Executive

More information

EMC XTREMCACHE ACCELERATES VIRTUALIZED ORACLE

EMC XTREMCACHE ACCELERATES VIRTUALIZED ORACLE White Paper EMC XTREMCACHE ACCELERATES VIRTUALIZED ORACLE EMC XtremSF, EMC XtremCache, EMC Symmetrix VMAX and Symmetrix VMAX 10K, XtremSF and XtremCache dramatically improve Oracle performance Symmetrix

More information

<Insert Picture Here> Introducing Oracle WebLogic Server on Oracle Database Appliance

<Insert Picture Here> Introducing Oracle WebLogic Server on Oracle Database Appliance Introducing Oracle WebLogic Server on Oracle Database Appliance Oracle Database Appliance with WebLogic Server Simple. Reliable. Affordable. 2 Virtualization on Oracle Database Appliance

More information

DB2 FOR PEOPLESOFT APPLICATIONS

DB2 FOR PEOPLESOFT APPLICATIONS January 2003 M A N A G E M E N T B R I E F DB2 FOR PEOPLESOFT APPLICATIONS Database Cost Comparisons for UNIX & Windows Deployments ITG International Technology Group 4546 El Camino Real, Suite 230 Los

More information

An Oracle White Paper December Oracle Exadata Database Machine Warehouse Architectural Comparisons

An Oracle White Paper December Oracle Exadata Database Machine Warehouse Architectural Comparisons An Oracle White Paper December 2010 Oracle Exadata Database Machine Warehouse Architectural Comparisons Overview Exadata is Oracle s fastest growing new product. Much of the growth of Exadata has come

More information

SUN ORACLE DATABASE MACHINE

SUN ORACLE DATABASE MACHINE SUN ORACLE DATABASE MACHINE FEATURES AND FACTS FEATURES From 1 to 8 database servers From 1 to 14 Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Servers Each Exadata Storage Server includes 384 GB of Exadata QDR (40 Gb/second)

More information

Sun Fire X4170 M2 Server Frequently Asked Questions

Sun Fire X4170 M2 Server Frequently Asked Questions Overview Faced with ever increasing computing needs and budget constraints, companies today want to set up infrastructures that offer optimal value, can easily be re-purposed, and have reduced complexity.

More information

IBM System p5 510 and 510Q Express Servers

IBM System p5 510 and 510Q Express Servers More value, easier to use, and more performance for the on demand world IBM System p5 510 and 510Q Express Servers System p5 510 or 510Q Express rack-mount servers Highlights Up to 4-core scalability with

More information

Oracle Exadata Statement of Direction NOVEMBER 2017

Oracle Exadata Statement of Direction NOVEMBER 2017 Oracle Exadata Statement of Direction NOVEMBER 2017 Disclaimer The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated

More information

IBM Storwize V7000: For your VMware virtual infrastructure

IBM Storwize V7000: For your VMware virtual infrastructure IBM Storwize V7000: For your VMware virtual infrastructure Innovative midrange disk system leverages integrated storage technologies Highlights Complement server virtualization, extending cost savings

More information

Oracle s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne IBM POWER7 performance characterization

Oracle s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne IBM POWER7 performance characterization Oracle s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne IBM POWER7 performance characterization Diane Webster IBM Oracle International Competency Center January 2012 Copyright IBM Corporation, 2012. All Rights Reserved. All

More information

Evaluation Report: Improving SQL Server Database Performance with Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4824 Flash Upgrades

Evaluation Report: Improving SQL Server Database Performance with Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4824 Flash Upgrades Evaluation Report: Improving SQL Server Database Performance with Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4824 Flash Upgrades Evaluation report prepared under contract with Dot Hill August 2015 Executive Summary Solid state

More information

C Q&As IBM Certified Specialist - Enterprise Storage Sales V4

C Q&As IBM Certified Specialist - Enterprise Storage Sales V4 CertBus.com C9020-970 Q&As IBM Certified Specialist - Enterprise Storage Sales V4 Pass IBM C9020-970 Exam with 100% Guarantee Free Download Real Questions & Answers PDF and VCE file from: 100% Passing

More information

How Smarter Systems Deliver Smarter Economics and Optimized Business Continuity

How Smarter Systems Deliver Smarter Economics and Optimized Business Continuity 9-November-2010 Singapore How Smarter Systems Deliver Smarter Economics and Optimized Business Continuity Shiva Anand Neiker Storage Sales Leader STG ASEAN How Smarter Systems Deliver Smarter Economics

More information

IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller IBM Easy Tier enhancements in release

IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller IBM Easy Tier enhancements in release IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller IBM Easy Tier enhancements in 7.5.0 release Kushal S. Patel, Shrikant V. Karve, Sarvesh S. Patel IBM Systems, ISV Enablement July 2015 Copyright IBM Corporation,

More information

An Introduction to GPFS

An Introduction to GPFS IBM High Performance Computing July 2006 An Introduction to GPFS gpfsintro072506.doc Page 2 Contents Overview 2 What is GPFS? 3 The file system 3 Application interfaces 4 Performance and scalability 4

More information

White Paper. Low Cost High Availability Clustering for the Enterprise. Jointly published by Winchester Systems Inc. and Red Hat Inc.

White Paper. Low Cost High Availability Clustering for the Enterprise. Jointly published by Winchester Systems Inc. and Red Hat Inc. White Paper Low Cost High Availability Clustering for the Enterprise Jointly published by Winchester Systems Inc. and Red Hat Inc. Linux Clustering Moves Into the Enterprise Mention clustering and Linux

More information

Stellar performance for a virtualized world

Stellar performance for a virtualized world IBM Systems and Technology IBM System Storage Stellar performance for a virtualized world IBM storage systems leverage VMware technology 2 Stellar performance for a virtualized world Highlights Leverages

More information

EMC XTREMCACHE ACCELERATES MICROSOFT SQL SERVER

EMC XTREMCACHE ACCELERATES MICROSOFT SQL SERVER White Paper EMC XTREMCACHE ACCELERATES MICROSOFT SQL SERVER EMC XtremSF, EMC XtremCache, EMC VNX, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 XtremCache dramatically improves SQL performance VNX protects data EMC Solutions

More information

HPE Nimble Storage HF20 Adaptive Dual Controller 10GBASE-T 2-port Configure-to-order Base Array (Q8H72A)

HPE Nimble Storage HF20 Adaptive Dual Controller 10GBASE-T 2-port Configure-to-order Base Array (Q8H72A) Digital data sheet HPE Nimble Storage HF20 Adaptive Dual Controller 10GBASE-T 2-port Configure-to-order Base Array (Q8H72A) Disk Storage Systems What's new Inline variable block deduplication and compression

More information

SAS workload performance improvements with IBM XIV Storage System Gen3

SAS workload performance improvements with IBM XIV Storage System Gen3 SAS workload performance improvements with IBM XIV Storage System Gen3 Including performance comparison with XIV second-generation model Narayana Pattipati IBM Systems and Technology Group ISV Enablement

More information

Oracle #1 RDBMS Vendor

Oracle #1 RDBMS Vendor Oracle #1 RDBMS Vendor IBM 20.7% Microsoft 18.1% Other 12.6% Oracle 48.6% Source: Gartner DataQuest July 2008, based on Total Software Revenue Oracle 2 Continuous Innovation Oracle 11g Exadata Storage

More information

IBM Storwize V5000 disk system

IBM Storwize V5000 disk system IBM Storwize V5000 disk system Latest addition to IBM Storwize family delivers outstanding benefits with greater flexibility Highlights Simplify management with industryleading graphical user interface

More information

Advanced Architectures for Oracle Database on Amazon EC2

Advanced Architectures for Oracle Database on Amazon EC2 Advanced Architectures for Oracle Database on Amazon EC2 Abdul Sathar Sait Jinyoung Jung Amazon Web Services November 2014 Last update: April 2016 Contents Abstract 2 Introduction 3 Oracle Database Editions

More information

1 Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

1 Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 1 Engineered Systems - Exadata Juan Loaiza Senior Vice President Systems Technology October 4, 2012 2 Safe Harbor Statement "Safe Harbor Statement: Statements in this presentation relating to Oracle's

More information

How Architecture Design Can Lower Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

How Architecture Design Can Lower Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Economic Insight Paper How Architecture Design Can Lower Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) By Eric Slack, Sr. Analyst December 2017 Enabling you to make the best technology

More information

Using EMC FAST with SAP on EMC Unified Storage

Using EMC FAST with SAP on EMC Unified Storage Using EMC FAST with SAP on EMC Unified Storage Applied Technology Abstract This white paper examines the performance considerations of placing SAP applications on FAST-enabled EMC unified storage. It also

More information

IBM System Storage DS8870 Release R7.3 Performance Update

IBM System Storage DS8870 Release R7.3 Performance Update IBM System Storage DS8870 Release R7.3 Performance Update Enterprise Storage Performance Yan Xu Agenda Summary of DS8870 Hardware Changes I/O Performance of High Performance Flash Enclosure (HPFE) Easy

More information

Exam : Title : High-End Disk for Open Systems V2. Version : DEMO

Exam : Title : High-End Disk for Open Systems V2. Version : DEMO Exam : 000-968 Title : High-End Disk for Open Systems V2 Version : DEMO 1.An international company has a heterogeneous IBM storage environment with two IBM DS8700 systems in a Metro Mirror relationship.

More information

QLE10000 Series Adapter Provides Application Benefits Through I/O Caching

QLE10000 Series Adapter Provides Application Benefits Through I/O Caching QLE10000 Series Adapter Provides Application Benefits Through I/O Caching QLogic Caching Technology Delivers Scalable Performance to Enterprise Applications Key Findings The QLogic 10000 Series 8Gb Fibre

More information

Improve Data Integration with Changed Data Capture. An Oracle Data Integrator Technical Brief Updated December 2006

Improve Data Integration with Changed Data Capture. An Oracle Data Integrator Technical Brief Updated December 2006 Improve Data Integration with Changed Data Capture An Oracle Data Integrator Technical Brief Updated December 2006 Improve Data Integration with Changed Data Capture: An Oracle Data Integrator Technical

More information

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 workload optimization on the new IBM PureFlex System

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 workload optimization on the new IBM PureFlex System Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 workload optimization on the new IBM PureFlex System Best practices Roland Mueller IBM Systems and Technology Group ISV Enablement April 2012 Copyright IBM Corporation, 2012

More information

Cloud Optimized Performance: I/O-Intensive Workloads Using Flash-Based Storage

Cloud Optimized Performance: I/O-Intensive Workloads Using Flash-Based Storage Cloud Optimized Performance: I/O-Intensive Workloads Using Flash-Based Storage Version 1.0 Brocade continues to innovate by delivering the industry s first 16 Gbps switches for low latency and high transaction

More information

Evolving To The Big Data Warehouse

Evolving To The Big Data Warehouse Evolving To The Big Data Warehouse Kevin Lancaster 1 Copyright Director, 2012, Oracle and/or its Engineered affiliates. All rights Insert Systems, Information Protection Policy Oracle Classification from

More information

Oracle Exadata: The World s Fastest Database Machine

Oracle Exadata: The World s Fastest Database Machine 10 th of November Sheraton Hotel, Sofia Oracle Exadata: The World s Fastest Database Machine Daniela Milanova Oracle Sales Consultant Oracle Exadata Database Machine One architecture for Data Warehousing

More information

Storwize V7000 real-time compressed volumes with Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation

Storwize V7000 real-time compressed volumes with Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation Storwize V7000 real-time compressed volumes with Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation Demonstrating IBM Storwize V7000 advanced storage efficiency in a Veritas Storage Foundation environment John Cooper

More information

IBM System p5 550 and 550Q Express servers

IBM System p5 550 and 550Q Express servers The right solutions for consolidating multiple applications on a single system IBM System p5 550 and 550Q Express servers Highlights Up to 8-core scalability using Quad-Core Module technology Point, click

More information

VALUE PROPOSITION FOR IBM VIRTUALIZATION SOLUTIONS

VALUE PROPOSITION FOR IBM VIRTUALIZATION SOLUTIONS June 2009 MANAGEMENT BRIEF VALUE PROPOSITION FOR IBM VIRTUALIZATION SOLUTIONS Bottom Line Impact for Enterprise Infrastructures ITG International Technology Group 4546 El Camino Real, Suite 230 Los Altos,

More information

EMC XTREMCACHE ACCELERATES ORACLE

EMC XTREMCACHE ACCELERATES ORACLE White Paper EMC XTREMCACHE ACCELERATES ORACLE EMC XtremSF, EMC XtremCache, EMC VNX, EMC FAST Suite, Oracle Database 11g XtremCache extends flash to the server FAST Suite automates storage placement in

More information

stec Host Cache Solution

stec Host Cache Solution White Paper stec Host Cache Solution EnhanceIO SSD Cache Software and the stec s1120 PCIe Accelerator speed decision support system (DSS) workloads and free up disk I/O resources for other applications.

More information

IBM Emulex 16Gb Fibre Channel HBA Evaluation

IBM Emulex 16Gb Fibre Channel HBA Evaluation IBM Emulex 16Gb Fibre Channel HBA Evaluation Evaluation report prepared under contract with Emulex Executive Summary The computing industry is experiencing an increasing demand for storage performance

More information

It s Time to Move Your Critical Data to SSDs Introduction

It s Time to Move Your Critical Data to SSDs Introduction It s Time to Move Your Critical Data to SSDs Introduction by the Northamber Storage Specialist Today s IT professionals are well aware that users expect fast, reliable access to ever-growing amounts of

More information

SUPERMICRO, VEXATA AND INTEL ENABLING NEW LEVELS PERFORMANCE AND EFFICIENCY FOR REAL-TIME DATA ANALYTICS FOR SQL DATA WAREHOUSE DEPLOYMENTS

SUPERMICRO, VEXATA AND INTEL ENABLING NEW LEVELS PERFORMANCE AND EFFICIENCY FOR REAL-TIME DATA ANALYTICS FOR SQL DATA WAREHOUSE DEPLOYMENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 THE AGE OF INFORMATION ACCELERATION Vexata Provides the Missing Piece in The Information Acceleration Puzzle The Vexata - Supermicro Partnership 4 CREATING ULTRA HIGH-PERFORMANCE DATA

More information

A Comparative Study of Microsoft Exchange 2010 on Dell PowerEdge R720xd with Exchange 2007 on Dell PowerEdge R510

A Comparative Study of Microsoft Exchange 2010 on Dell PowerEdge R720xd with Exchange 2007 on Dell PowerEdge R510 A Comparative Study of Microsoft Exchange 2010 on Dell PowerEdge R720xd with Exchange 2007 on Dell PowerEdge R510 Incentives for migrating to Exchange 2010 on Dell PowerEdge R720xd Global Solutions Engineering

More information

Hitachi Converged Platform for Oracle

Hitachi Converged Platform for Oracle Hitachi Converged Platform for Oracle Manfred Drozd, Benchware Ltd. Sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems Corporation Introduction Because of their obvious advantages, engineered platforms are becoming increasingly

More information

International Journal of Computer Engineering and Applications,

International Journal of Computer Engineering and Applications, EXADATA DATABASE MACHINE: CLOUD IMPLEMENTATION- IN A BOX: Lecturer, Dept of Information technology Ranchi Women s College, Ranchi-834001, Jharkhand. dollyviv@gmail.com ABSTRACT: After remaining happy with

More information

Nové možnosti storage virtualizace s řešením IBM Storwize V7000

Nové možnosti storage virtualizace s řešením IBM Storwize V7000 Nové možnosti storage virtualizace s řešením IBM Storwize V7000 A new generation of midrange storage Rudolf Hruška Information Infrastructure Leader IBM Systems & Technology Group rudolf_hruska@cz.ibm.com

More information

Data Sheet: Storage Management Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC from Symantec Manageability and availability for Oracle RAC databases

Data Sheet: Storage Management Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC from Symantec Manageability and availability for Oracle RAC databases Manageability and availability for Oracle RAC databases Overview Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC from Symantec offers a proven solution to help customers implement and manage highly available

More information

Prices in USA (Dollar) Oracle Engineered Systems Price List August 22, 2018

Prices in USA (Dollar) Oracle Engineered Systems Price List August 22, 2018 Engineered Price List August 22, 2018 This document is the property of Corporation. Any reproduction of this document in part or in whole is strictly prohibited. For educational purposes only. Subject

More information

Veritas Storage Foundation and. Sun Solaris ZFS. A performance study based on commercial workloads. August 02, 2007

Veritas Storage Foundation and. Sun Solaris ZFS. A performance study based on commercial workloads. August 02, 2007 Veritas Storage Foundation and Sun Solaris ZFS A performance study based on commercial workloads August 02, 2007 Introduction...3 Executive Summary...4 About Veritas Storage Foundation...5 Veritas Storage

More information

<Insert Picture Here> Exadata MAA Best Practices Series Session 1: E-Business Suite on Exadata

<Insert Picture Here> Exadata MAA Best Practices Series Session 1: E-Business Suite on Exadata Exadata MAA Best Practices Series Session 1: E-Business Suite on Exadata Richard Exley Ray Dutcher Richard Exley, Ray Dutcher Oracle Applications, Exadata and MAA Best Practices Exadata

More information

IBM System Storage DCS3700

IBM System Storage DCS3700 IBM System Storage DCS3700 Maximize performance, scalability and storage density at an affordable price Highlights Gain fast, highly dense storage capabilities at an affordable price Deliver simplified

More information

Evaluation Report: HP StoreFabric SN1000E 16Gb Fibre Channel HBA

Evaluation Report: HP StoreFabric SN1000E 16Gb Fibre Channel HBA Evaluation Report: HP StoreFabric SN1000E 16Gb Fibre Channel HBA Evaluation report prepared under contract with HP Executive Summary The computing industry is experiencing an increasing demand for storage

More information

Lenovo Database Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server TB

Lenovo Database Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server TB Database Lenovo Database Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server 2016 22TB Data Warehouse Fast Track Solution Data Warehouse problem and a solution The rapid growth of technology means that the amount of

More information

Optimize Your Databases Using Foglight for Oracle s Performance Investigator

Optimize Your Databases Using Foglight for Oracle s Performance Investigator Optimize Your Databases Using Foglight for Oracle s Performance Investigator Solve performance issues faster with deep SQL workload visibility and lock analytics Abstract Get all the information you need

More information

White Paper Features and Benefits of Fujitsu All-Flash Arrays for Virtualization and Consolidation ETERNUS AF S2 series

White Paper Features and Benefits of Fujitsu All-Flash Arrays for Virtualization and Consolidation ETERNUS AF S2 series White Paper Features and Benefits of Fujitsu All-Flash Arrays for Virtualization and Consolidation Fujitsu All-Flash Arrays are extremely effective tools when virtualization is used for server consolidation.

More information

Veritas Storage Foundation from Symantec

Veritas Storage Foundation from Symantec Simplified, Scalable and Cost-Effective Storage Management Overviewview provides a complete solution for heterogeneous online storage management. Based on the industry-leading Veritas Volume Manager from

More information

Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash

Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Read more Nimble solutions Contact Us 800-544-8877 solutions@microage.com MicroAge.com TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Nimble Storage s Adaptive Flash platform

More information

An Oracle White Paper September Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management Demonstrates Extreme Performance on Oracle Exadata/Exalogic

An Oracle White Paper September Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management Demonstrates Extreme Performance on Oracle Exadata/Exalogic An Oracle White Paper September 2011 Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management 2.0.1 Demonstrates Extreme Performance on Oracle Exadata/Exalogic Introduction New utilities technologies are bringing with them

More information

The HP 3PAR Get Virtual Guarantee Program

The HP 3PAR Get Virtual Guarantee Program Get Virtual Guarantee Internal White Paper The HP 3PAR Get Virtual Guarantee Program Help your customers increase server virtualization efficiency with HP 3PAR Storage HP Restricted. For HP and Channel

More information

Standardizing on Veritas Data Center Management Software from Symantec to Hit Service Levels and Cost Targets

Standardizing on Veritas Data Center Management Software from Symantec to Hit Service Levels and Cost Targets Standardizing on Veritas Data Center Management Software from Symantec to Hit Service Levels and Cost Targets It s challenging to manage one data center manages over 100. It also optimizes these data centers

More information

2 to 4 Intel Xeon Processor E v3 Family CPUs. Up to 12 SFF Disk Drives for Appliance Model. Up to 6 TB of Main Memory (with GB LRDIMMs)

2 to 4 Intel Xeon Processor E v3 Family CPUs. Up to 12 SFF Disk Drives for Appliance Model. Up to 6 TB of Main Memory (with GB LRDIMMs) Based on Cisco UCS C460 M4 Rack Servers Solution Brief May 2015 With Intelligent Intel Xeon Processors Highlights Integrate with Your Existing Data Center Our SAP HANA appliances help you get up and running

More information

IBM Power Systems solution for SugarCRM

IBM Power Systems solution for SugarCRM IBM Power Systems solution for SugarCRM Performance and scaling overview of Sugar on IBM Power Systems running Linux featuring the new IBM POWER8 technology Steve Pratt, Mark Nellen IBM Systems and Technology

More information

Oracle Database and Application Solutions

Oracle Database and Application Solutions Oracle Database and Application Solutions Overview The success of Oracle s products is based on three principles: Simplify Enterprises must increase the speed of information delivery with Integrated Systems,

More information

IBM System Storage DS5020 Express

IBM System Storage DS5020 Express IBM DS5020 Express Manage growth, complexity, and risk with scalable, high-performance storage Highlights Mixed host interfaces support (FC/iSCSI) enables SAN tiering Balanced performance well-suited for

More information

VALUE PROPOSITION FOR IBM eserver p5

VALUE PROPOSITION FOR IBM eserver p5 September 2004 MANAGEMENT BRIEF VALUE PROPOSITION FOR IBM eserver p5 Cost/Benefit Case for POWER5 Micro-Partitioning ITG International Technology Group 4546 El Camino Real, Suite 230 Los Altos, California

More information

Evaluating Hyperconverged Full Stack Solutions by, David Floyer

Evaluating Hyperconverged Full Stack Solutions by, David Floyer Evaluating Hyperconverged Full Stack Solutions by, David Floyer April 30th, 2018 Wikibon analysis and modeling is used to evaluate a Hyperconverged Full Stack approach compared to a traditional x86 White

More information

Virtualization of the MS Exchange Server Environment

Virtualization of the MS Exchange Server Environment MS Exchange Server Acceleration Maximizing Users in a Virtualized Environment with Flash-Powered Consolidation Allon Cohen, PhD OCZ Technology Group Introduction Microsoft (MS) Exchange Server is one of

More information

ORACLE SNAP MANAGEMENT UTILITY FOR ORACLE DATABASE

ORACLE SNAP MANAGEMENT UTILITY FOR ORACLE DATABASE ORACLE SNAP MANAGEMENT UTILITY FOR ORACLE DATABASE EFFICIENTLY BACK UP, CLONE, AND RESTORE ORACLE DATABASES ON ORACLE S ZFS STORAGE APPLIANCE WITH ORACLE SNAP MANAGEMENT UTILITY KEY FEATURES Virtually

More information

Oracle Exadata: Strategy and Roadmap

Oracle Exadata: Strategy and Roadmap Oracle Exadata: Strategy and Roadmap - New Technologies, Cloud, and On-Premises Juan Loaiza Senior Vice President, Database Systems Technologies, Oracle Safe Harbor Statement The following is intended

More information

SAN Storage Array Workbook September 11, 2012

SAN Storage Array Workbook September 11, 2012 Page 1 of 9 The following are questions to be asked regarding acquiring SAN Storage Arrays. Some of the questions need to be filled in for the specific environment where the storage system will be deployed

More information

VEXATA FOR ORACLE. Digital Business Demands Performance and Scale. Solution Brief

VEXATA FOR ORACLE. Digital Business Demands Performance and Scale. Solution Brief Digital Business Demands Performance and Scale As enterprises shift to online and softwaredriven business models, Oracle infrastructure is being pushed to run at exponentially higher scale and performance.

More information

Infor Lawson on IBM i 7.1 and IBM POWER7+

Infor Lawson on IBM i 7.1 and IBM POWER7+ Infor Lawson on IBM i 7.1 and IBM POWER7+ IBM Systems & Technology Group Mike Breitbach mbreit@us.ibm.com This document can be found on the web, Version Date: March, 2014 Table of Contents 1. Introduction...

More information

Predicts 2004: The Future of Windows Server

Predicts 2004: The Future of Windows Server Strategic Planning, T. Bittman Research Note 19 November 2003 Predicts 2004: The Future of Windows Server In 2004, distributed manageability will emerge as the key to the future of Windows Server, especially

More information

Planning for Easy Tier with IBM System Storage Storwize V7000 and SAN Volume Controller

Planning for Easy Tier with IBM System Storage Storwize V7000 and SAN Volume Controller Planning for Easy Tier with IBM System Storage Storwize V7000 and SAN Volume Controller May 2013 Nick Clayton Carlos Fuente Document WP102295 Systems and Technology Group 2013, International Business Machines

More information

User Survey Analysis: Next Steps for Server Virtualization in the Midmarket

User Survey Analysis: Next Steps for Server Virtualization in the Midmarket User Survey Analysis: Next Steps for Server Virtualization in the Midmarket Gartner RAS Core Research Note G00207375, James A. Browning, Alan Dayley, 21 October 2010, RV2A411012011 Approximately 30% of

More information

Reduce Latency and Increase Application Performance Up to 44x with Adaptec maxcache 3.0 SSD Read and Write Caching Solutions

Reduce Latency and Increase Application Performance Up to 44x with Adaptec maxcache 3.0 SSD Read and Write Caching Solutions Reduce Latency and Increase Application Performance Up to 44x with Adaptec maxcache 3. SSD Read and Write Caching Solutions Executive Summary Today s data centers and cloud computing environments require

More information

An Oracle White Paper. Released April 2013

An Oracle White Paper. Released April 2013 Performance and Scalability Benchmark: Siebel CRM Release 8.1.1.4 Industry Applications and Oracle 11.2.0.3 Database on Oracle's SPARC T5 Servers and Oracle Solaris An Oracle White Paper Released April

More information

Veritas Volume Replicator Option by Symantec

Veritas Volume Replicator Option by Symantec Veritas Volume Replicator Option by Symantec Data replication for disaster recovery The provides organizations with a world-class foundation for continuous data replication, enabling rapid and reliable

More information

An Oracle Technical White Paper October Sizing Guide for Single Click Configurations of Oracle s MySQL on Sun Fire x86 Servers

An Oracle Technical White Paper October Sizing Guide for Single Click Configurations of Oracle s MySQL on Sun Fire x86 Servers An Oracle Technical White Paper October 2011 Sizing Guide for Single Click Configurations of Oracle s MySQL on Sun Fire x86 Servers Introduction... 1 Foundation for an Enterprise Infrastructure... 2 Sun

More information

IBM Storwize V7000 TCO White Paper:

IBM Storwize V7000 TCO White Paper: IBM Storwize V7000 TCO White Paper: A TCO White Paper An Alinean White Paper Published by: Alinean, Inc. 201 S. Orange Ave Suite 1210 Orlando, FL 32801-12565 Tel: 407.382.0005 Fax: 407.382.0906 Email:

More information

Veritas InfoScale Enterprise for Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)

Veritas InfoScale Enterprise for Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Veritas InfoScale Enterprise for Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Manageability and availability for Oracle RAC databases Overview Veritas InfoScale Enterprise for Oracle Real Application Clusters

More information

Automatic Data Optimization with Oracle Database 12c O R A C L E W H I T E P A P E R S E P T E M B E R

Automatic Data Optimization with Oracle Database 12c O R A C L E W H I T E P A P E R S E P T E M B E R Automatic Data Optimization with Oracle Database 12c O R A C L E W H I T E P A P E R S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 7 Table of Contents Disclaimer 1 Introduction 2 Storage Tiering and Compression Tiering 3 Heat

More information

Virtualized SQL Server Performance and Scaling on Dell EMC XC Series Web-Scale Hyper-converged Appliances Powered by Nutanix Software

Virtualized SQL Server Performance and Scaling on Dell EMC XC Series Web-Scale Hyper-converged Appliances Powered by Nutanix Software Virtualized SQL Server Performance and Scaling on Dell EMC XC Series Web-Scale Hyper-converged Appliances Powered by Nutanix Software Dell EMC Engineering January 2017 A Dell EMC Technical White Paper

More information

DataON and Intel Select Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) Maximizes IOPS Performance for Windows Server Software-Defined Storage

DataON and Intel Select Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) Maximizes IOPS Performance for Windows Server Software-Defined Storage Solution Brief DataON and Intel Select Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) Maximizes IOPS Performance for Windows Server Software-Defined Storage DataON Next-Generation All NVMe SSD Flash-Based Hyper-Converged

More information

Системы хранения IBM. Новые возможности

Системы хранения IBM. Новые возможности Системы хранения IBM Новые возможности Introducing: A New Member of the Storwize Family Easy to use, affordable and efficient storage for Small and Medium Businesses New standard for midrange storage IBM

More information

Lenovo Enterprise Portfolio

Lenovo Enterprise Portfolio Lenovo Enterprise Portfolio Federico Cuatromano Client Technical Specialist Data Center Group Lenovo Today A $46 billion, Fortune 500 company 60,000 employees serving customers in 160+ countries Publicly

More information

SAP HANA IBM x3850 X6

SAP HANA IBM x3850 X6 SAP HANA IBM x3850 X6 Miklos Farkas SAP HANA IBM x3850 X6 IBM Workload Optimized Solution for SAP HANA appliance Applications Data Center Ready SUSE SAP HANA GPFS FPO functionality OS SUSE Linux Enterprise

More information

QLogic 2500 Series FC HBAs Accelerate Application Performance

QLogic 2500 Series FC HBAs Accelerate Application Performance QLogic 2500 Series FC HBAs Accelerate QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters from Cavium: Planning for Future Requirements 8Gb Performance Meets the Needs of Next-generation Data Centers EXECUTIVE SUMMARY It

More information

An Oracle White Paper June Enterprise Database Cloud Deployment with Oracle SuperCluster T5-8

An Oracle White Paper June Enterprise Database Cloud Deployment with Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 An Oracle White Paper June 2013 Enterprise Database Cloud Deployment with Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 Introduction Databases form the underlying foundation for most business applications by storing, organizing,

More information

Performance/Throughput

Performance/Throughput Markets, S. Zaffos Research Note 31 March 2003 ATA Disks Redefine RAID Price/Performance Cost-optimized storage infrastructures should include redundant arrays of independent disks built with low-cost

More information

Vendor: IBM. Exam Code: Exam Name: IBM Midrange Storage Technical Support V3. Version: Demo

Vendor: IBM. Exam Code: Exam Name: IBM Midrange Storage Technical Support V3. Version: Demo Vendor: IBM Exam Code: 000-451 Exam Name: IBM Midrange Storage Technical Support V3 Version: Demo QUESTION NO: 1 On the Storwize V7000, which IBM utility analyzes the expected compression savings for an

More information

Nimble/Cisco SmartStack Integrated Infrastructure for Enterprise-class Oracle Workloads

Nimble/Cisco SmartStack Integrated Infrastructure for Enterprise-class Oracle Workloads Nimble/Cisco SmartStack Integrated Infrastructure for Enterprise-class Oracle Workloads Nimble Storage Overview 2015 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 2 Redefining the Storage Market with

More information

Real Time Summarization. Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Real Time Summarization. Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Real Time Summarization Safe Harbor Statement The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract.

More information

Under the Hood of Oracle Database Appliance. Alex Gorbachev

Under the Hood of Oracle Database Appliance. Alex Gorbachev Under the Hood of Oracle Database Appliance Alex Gorbachev Mountain View, CA 9-Nov-2011 http://bit.ly/pythianasmwebinar 2 Alex Gorbachev CTO, The Pythian Group Blogger OakTable Network member Oracle ACE

More information

Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC from Symantec

Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC from Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC from Symantec Manageability, performance and availability for Oracle RAC databases Data Sheet: Storage Management Overviewview offers a proven solution to help

More information

Discover the all-flash storage company for the on-demand world

Discover the all-flash storage company for the on-demand world Discover the all-flash storage company for the on-demand world STORAGE FOR WHAT S NEXT The applications we use in our personal lives have raised the level of expectations for the user experience in enterprise

More information