It is an engineered system of software, servers, storage, and networking for a wide range of custom and packaged online transaction processing and data warehousing application databases.
Oracle announced its Oracle Database Appliance this week. It is designed as an easy-to-use, affordable, and highly available database appliance for SMBs. It uses Oracle Database 11g Release 2†and†Oracle Real Application Clusters†via a 2-node†Sun Fire server cluster†that runs†Oracle Linux.
The Oracle Database Appliance is an engineered system of software, servers, storage, and networking that offers high availability for a wide range of custom and packaged online transaction processing and data warehousing application databases.
“The Oracle Database Appliance protects databases from server and storage failures with Oracle Real Application Clusters and Automatic Storage Management, respectively,” Oracle states in a press release submitted to Channel Pro-SMB.
The Oracle Database Appliance also offers pay-as-you-grow software licensing for Oracle Database and related software from 2 to 24 processor cores. This enables SMB customers to align their software spend with their business growth without the need for hardware upgrades.
With proactive system monitoring, one-button software provisioning, full-stack integrated patching, and automatic phone home on hardware failures, the Oracle Database Appliance also aims to reduce the cost and resources required of SMBs to build and maintain a highly-available database system.
“Companies are spending tens of thousands of dollars and countless hours to buy, build, and customize database solutions,” explains Oracle senior vice president Andrew Mendelsohn. “With the Oracle Database Appliance, customers get the power of a leading database in a highly-available system from a single vendor. We’ve taken the risk out of designing and deploying database infrastructures, which makes it ideal for small and midsize businesses that want higher availability for their application databases.”
The Oracle Database Appliance is available to SMBs via the manufacturer’s “ecosystem” of partners. Additional information about the product will be made available at the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 event Oct. 2 through Oct. 6 in the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
