Some positive new on an otherwise dreary New England day.
Network Appliance and Oracle Team to Deliver
Network Storage Solution for Oracle8i Appliance
Business Wire
Tuesday, January 04, 2000 3:22PM
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 2000 via NewsEdge
Corporation -
NetApp(R) Solutions Offer Simple, Always Available Appliance
Architecture to Extend Oracle8i Appliance Paradigm
Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP), the leading provider of
network-attached data access and management solutions, today announced
they will integrate NetApp data management appliances, also known as
"filers", for use with the Oracle8i(TM) Appliance from Oracle Corp.
(NASDAQ:ORCL), the number one choice for e-business.
The Oracle8i Appliance provides the most cost effective and reliable way to
deploy Oracle's flagship Internet server with significantly less complexity than
on general-purpose servers. The integration will enable Oracle8i Appliance
users to benefit from higher-speed data access and reduced data downtime
via Network Appliance(TM) solutions - which have demonstrated uptime
greater than 99.99 percent.
In September of 1997, Network Appliance and Oracle announced the first-ever
certification by the leading database vendor for a networked storage solution.
Just as then, this will provide new and innovative solutions to the increasingly
complex and important problem of managing database storage. As the use of
e-commerce and the Internet continue to grow, the need for underlying
database storage is exploding. Oracle and NetApp have a solid history of
providing customers with database environments that are highly available,
extremely reliable and very simple to manage and expand.
"Oracle is committed to delivering simple, affordable and manageable
solutions to meet the needs of today's Internet economy," said Kevin Walsh,
Vice President, Appliances, Oracle. "Network Appliance's network storage
solutions and Oracle have been tremendously successful in meeting the
needs of our joint customers. Oracle and Network Appliance will work
together to extend ease of use, high data availability and reliable access to
Oracle8i Appliance users."
"Today's information-rich environment requires storage solutions that can be
quickly installed and easily administered without sacrificing performance
integrity - regardless whether you are an enterprise or workgroup," said Dan
Warmenhoven, President and CEO of Network Appliance. "NetApp's easy to
install, easy to administer and always available data management solutions
combined with the Oracle 8i Appliance are a natural fit for businesses
needing to scale quickly in this internet-speed world."
Unique features of NetApp data management solutions include: -0- *T --
Snapshot(TM) technology that maintains multiple backups online to
ensure consistent images of databases and provide read-only
copies of databases for backup, queries, decision support and
report generation. All this is accomplished without expensive
disk mirroring or performance degradation. -- SnapMirror(TM) software
provides remote mirroring of data for
quick disaster recovery, offline backup and data sharing. -- SnapRestore(TM)
software allows any system to revert back to a
specified Snapshot for instant recovery. Recovery of
multi-terabyte-sized databases can now be done in minutes rather
than hours without ever going to tape. *T About Network Appliance
Network Appliance, a veteran in network file serving and caching, has been
providing data access solutions since 1992. Major corporations and ISPs,
including Lycos, Yahoo!, Citicorp Securities, Siemens, Lockheed, Cisco,
Motorola and Texas Instruments have deployed NetApp solutions. NetApp's
file servers ("filers") and Internet caching solutions (NetCache(TM)
appliances) deliver fast, simple, reliable and cost-effective access to
network-stored data and enable simultaneous shared file services for UNIX(R),
Windows NT(R) and the World Wide Web.
The company pioneered the concept of the "network appliance," an extension
of the industry trend toward dedicated, specialized products that perform a
single function. Network Appliance filers and NetCache appliances are based
on the Company's innovative data access software known as Data
ONTAP(TM) operating system and standards-compliant hardware.
NetApp is a registered trademark in the U.S. and other countries and
Network Appliance, Data ONTAP and NetCache are trademarks of Network
Appliance, Inc. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.
CONTACT: Network Appliance, Inc. | Adam Trunkey, 408/822-6314 |
atrunkey@netapp.com |
