Optimize Your Data Warehouse with Oracle and Sun

As part of the Oracle Optimized Warehouse Initiative, Oracle and Sun have created a comprehensive set of Data Warehousing reference configurations that enable you to start from a "best-fit" guide when building a data warehouse. These configurations can then be customized for specific workloads and requirements and include both vertical and horizontal scalability options.

Oracle Optimized Warehouse Reference Configurations for Sun combine the Oracle Database with industry-leading Sun servers, storage and the Solaris OS. These solutions help you take the risk out of designing and deploying data warehouses that are fast, reliable and can easily scale from 500GB to over 100TB in size.

Standard Components for Predictable Performance and Rapid Deployment

Choose suggested reference configurations based on a variety of metrics, including small, medium or large size (from 300 GB to 10TB), workload (light, standard or heavy) and architecture (single server or clustered solution). These vendor-confirmed, well-balanced configurations ensure that CPU resources, memory, I/O bandwidth, and disks work smoothly together to provide excellent performance and bottleneck-free capacity.

Sun's series of optimized data warehousing configurations include Oracle Database and Real Application Clusters, Sun Fire servers and Sun StorageTek disk arrays.

Benefits of the Optimized Data Warehouse

The Oracle & Sun optimized data warehouse enables you to:

Simplify the DW product selection and sizing process
Lower costs by utilizing off-the-shelf, industry-standard components
Compare SMP and clustered server configurations
Compare SPARC-based and X64-based configurations
Quickly determine the resource loads and number of users that can be supported by a configuration
Easily plan hardware upgrades

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