SUN ORACLE EXADATA STORAGE SERVER FOR RETAILKEY BENEFITS: Lower price per Terabyte- 10-50x performance improvement for processing and analysis to gain a competitive advantage in many ways- Easy deployment with complete package of software, servers and storage- Scalable and expandable as your business grows- Efficient data compression to manage the large volumes of vital data for retailers- Complete redundancy for business critical merchandising, pricing and analytics applications

As retailers grow their business, it can be difficult to scale their computing infrastructure. The Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server is a storage product optimized for use with Oracle database applications and is the storage building block of the Sun Oracle Database Machine. It uses a massively parallel architecture and Exadata Smart Flash Cache to dramatically accelerate Oracle Database processing and speed I/O operations. It is an ideal storage solution for the Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Data Warehousing (DW) applications found in the retail industry.

Hardware by Sun, Software by Oracle

As part of its commitment to enable insight-driven retailing and help the world’s largest retailers create shareholder value, Oracle is pleased to unveil the Oracle Exadata

Version 2. Oracle Exadata Storage Servers combine smart storage software from Oracle and industry-standard hardware from Sun to deliver the industry’s highest database storage performance.

The Oracle Exadata Storage Server is the building block for the Sun Oracle Database Machine, a complete package of software, servers, and storage for data warehousing, transaction processing, and consolidated mixed application workloads. Simple and fast to implement, the Sun Oracle Database Machine is ready to tackle your largest and most important database applications — and often run them 10x faster, or more.

Transformational Combination for Retail

By combining leading, industry-standard servers and storage hardware from Sun with the intelligence built into the Oracle software, the Sun Oracle Database Machine delivers the industry’s highest levels of performance, scalability, and reliability, and is backed by Oracle Support. Running Oracle Retail applications on Exadata Version 2 helps provide retailers with faster and more predictable performance, lower operating costs, quicker time to value, and reduced risk. With the Sun Oracle Database Machine, retailers can expect to store more than ten times the amount of data and search data more than ten-times faster without making any changes to their applications. Exadata Version 2 is an ideal storage solution for any retailer.

Fast and Reliable

As data volumes continue to grow exponentially, conventional storage arrays struggle to efficiently process terabytes of data, and push that data through storage networks to achieve the performance necessary for demanding database applications. Exadata solves that problem with a combination of software and hardware optimizations.

Speed: Ability to perform up to 1,000,000 I/O operations per second.

Ease of Upgrade: Easily upgrade from any one of four models to meet the needs of any size of application.

Scalability: Scale by adding more racks to the Sun Oracle Database Machine Full Rack. Up to 8 racks can be connected without requiring additional switches. Larger configurations can be built with additional switches.

Certification: Certified to run Oracle Retail Merchandise Operations Management, Oracle Retail Warehouse Management, Oracle Retail Price Management, Oracle Retail Invoice Matching, Oracle Retail Allocation, Oracle Retail Integration Bus and more to follow