Nimble Storage launched a new SmartStack™ converged infrastructure solution leveraging Oracle Linux, Oracle VM, and Oracle Database, running on Cisco Unified Computing System™ (UCS). The new offering provides organizations with the ability to meet Oracle Database performance demands and scale without disruption or increased capital expenses.
The new SmartStack architectures eliminate the challenges associated with deploying application, server, hypervisor, networking, and storage components as an integrated solution. The new solution is fully tested and validated using both Oracle Validated Configuration test kit and Nimble Storage’s test environments. Each SmartStack solution comes with a pre-validated reference architecture that leverages Nimble Storage CS-Series and strategic partners' solutions. Pre-testing helps organizations accelerate deployment and minimize risk associated with deploying solutions in the data center, whether it be for server virtualization, VDI, business critical applications or data protection.
According to Eric Sheppard, storage research director at IDC, “Converged and integrated systems have rapidly moved from evaluation environments to deployments running production applications. We’re seeing a very high level of confidence in these types of systems as large and midsized companies leverage integrated systems to decrease time to deployment, reduce downtime, lower operation costs, and improve resource utilization.”
The solution components include a Nimble Storage CS-series array, two Cisco UCS B200 M3 blade servers, Oracle VM 3.2, Oracle Linux 6 Update 4 with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, and Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Database 12c.
“By utilizing our intelligent storage architecture, organizations can deploy affordable disaster recovery while meeting the performance and availability needs of storage teams and DBAs, without the complexity of traditional solutions. In addition, Nimble Storage customers experience significant capacity savings with compression for database workloads,” said Radhika Krishnan, vice president of product marketing and alliances, Nimble Storage.
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