Recent Posts by Cindy Swearingen

We are continuing our Systems Engineering Forum events for SPARC and Solaris, ZFS Storage, and Oracle Tape for our great customers and partners in EMEA. These sessions provide insight into the technology that drives our product solutions. Join us, the product management teams, as well as product engineering teams, and our EMEA product experts to learn how to leverage these solutions in your business environment. See the invite links below. SPARC Servers, November 3: https://go.ora...

On October 13, 2020, we are hosting a series of sessions where you can learn how to leverage Oracle Storage products to protect your most valuable asset, from mission critical Exadata backups and general purpose storage solutions as well as archival solutions to meet compliance requirements for long-term data retention. This is a good time to catch up on the ZFS Storage features and use cases that we have introduced in the past year. Special guests and demonstrations are...

Wishing you all a safe and happy summer! The cloud snapshot backup feature of the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance allows you to back up full and incremental snapshots from a local Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance to an object store target on another ZFS Storage Appliance as well as to cloud targets associated with an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) account. You can decide which snapshots are backed up to another appliance or to an actual OCI cloud target. These features...

Happy New Year! Now is the time to reflect on the past year and to thank everyone who helps make our product successful. This past year, I had a blast working with our top customers whose 24/7 business environments demand not only robust NAS services but also performance and space efficiency in an enterprise grade storage solution. Evolving enterprise business needs mean that we continue to evolve our storage offerings and integrate into both on-premise and cloud environments. Wit...

Welcome to OpenWorld, ZFS Fans! We're bringing our best stuff to OpenWorld to showcase our great products again this year. If you run a critical business environment and are looking for a world-class enterprise platform powered by the ZFS Storage Appliance, then Oracle OpenWorld is the place for you. Here you will find enterprise grade infrastructure solutions as well as cloud integration. One of the highlights of OpenWorld for me is getting reacquainted with our customers...

Recent 10th anniversary celebrations of Oracle Exadata and the ZFS Storage Appliance provide an excellent opportunity to revisit these marvels of engineering. Exadata provides the best performance and consolidation platform for Oracle Database (Exadata) ZFS Storage Appliance is the perfect storage platform for RMAN backups and an efficient Oracle Database development environment In a 24/7 business environment, Oracle customers rely on Exadata for hosting their most critical...

Today, we are introducing the Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2, available in two configurations: Mid-range - a mid-range unified storage system ideal for use with performance-intensive, dynamic workloads at an attractive price point. High-end - a high-end enterprise unified storage system for workloads demanding extreme performance and scalability at a price point that rivals competitive midrange and high-end systems. Both models are economically compelling enterprise storage solutions...

Today, we are announcing the latest Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS7-2, which is the sixth-generation of our unified storage platform. Built on the ground-breaking ZFS file system and hybrid storage pool model, that leverages a massively scaled SMP-based OS, with multi-petabyte scalability, extensive DRAM and flash caches, the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance is a performance powerhouse. When you combine the system's advanced architecture with simplified storage management, deep...

I still get geeked sharing the great technology that is part of our every day life and then the other great honor is to share our latest innovations to customers who run their businesses on our integrated products. Oracle ZFS Storage is a critical building block for key Oracle products that many customers rely on to drive their business innovation around the world.Earlier this year, I identified all the primary features that provide such as fantastic multipurpose storage...