Oracle Corp. has announced the Oracle Information Appliance Foundation which will help joint customers speed the implementation of data warehouses based on Oracle Database 10g, Dell PowerEdge servers from Dell Inc. and EMC CLARiiON networked storage systems from EMC Corp., Oracle said. The Oracle Information Appliance Foundation will help to simplify customer buying cycle and data warehouse deployment, Oracle added last week.

The Oracle Information Appliance Foundation on Dell and EMC is a reference configuration that delivers a prescribed database, server and storage mix optimized for data warehouses containing one TB (terabyte) of raw data, Oracle of Redwood Shores, California said. The Oracle Information Appliance Foundation has been developed from real-world customer deployments, and it can be used as a data warehouse ‘building block’, the company said. As these components are modular, they can be combined to support larger data warehouses, thereby offering customers the ability to scale their solution over time, Oracle added.

The Foundation comprises an assembled set of CPU (central processing unit) resources, memory, I/O (input/output), and disks that have been combined into a balanced and optimized design that avoids capacity or performance bottlenecks, Oracle said. This Foundation consists of dual processors, dual core Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers running Linux, two Emulex or QLogic HBAs (host bus adapters), Brocade 4GB (gigabyte) switch technology, and one EMC CLARiiON CX-310 networked storage system, the company said.

The Oracle Information Appliance Foundation on Dell and EMC simplifies and speeds the data warehouse design and sizing process, lowers costs by utilizing off the shelf, industry-standard components, and provides incremental scalability through replication, Oracle said.

Oracle Database 10g is a database that has been designed for grid computing, which delivers superior performance, scalability, availability, security and ease of management on a low-cost grid of industry standard storage and servers, Oracle said. Oracle Database 10g is designed to be effectively deployed on small blade servers, as well as large SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing) servers and clusters of all sizes, the company said.

It features automated management capabilities for easy, cost-effective operation. Oracle Database 10g's ability to manage data from traditional business information to XML (Extensible Markup Language) documents and spatial/location information, makes it the ideal choice to power online transaction processing, decision support and content management applications, the company said.

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