Wednesday, 26 July 2006

Oracle, HP Unveil Reference Configurations for Deploying Data Warehouses

Oracle and Hewlett-Packard have announced that they have developed reference configuration to help implementation of Oracle Database 10g-based data warehouses on HP servers and storage.

Reference configurations help customers get the database, server, and storage mix they need, right out of the gates.

Each configuration defines a matched set of servers and storage that balances I/O throughput seamlessly across all components to yield consistently high performance for complex queries running against large data warehouses.

Customers can make quick and accurate infrastructure decisions with guidance on the right combination of HP Integrity and ProLiant servers and HP StorageWorks disk arrays. From a single HP ProLiant server to scale-out server clusters running Linux and scale-up HP Integrity Superdome servers running HP-UX11i, the configurations cover data warehouses ranging in size from 250 gigabytes to 10 terabytes.

"Together, we’ve established multiple TPC-H world record benchmarks, proving time and again the performance and value of an Oracle and HP data warehousing solution. We’re offering customers a choice of reference configurations to meet their immediate requirements and a roadmap that enables their Oracle and HP solution to grow with them," said Willie Hardie, vice president of Database Product Marketing, Oracle.