REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire - Apr 19, 2012) - Oracle (NASDAQ: [ ORCL ])

News Facts

• Oracle today announced the [ Sun ZFS Storage 7420 appliance ] beat IBM's highest current SPC-2 Result, based on SPC-2 throughput performance(1).
• Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage 7420 appliance delivered 10,703.69 SPC-2 MBPS™ and SPC-2 Price-Performance of $35.24(2).
• Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance's SPC-2 MBPS performance was:
  • 43 percent higher throughput than the IBM XIV at 7,467.99 SPC-2 MBPS(3).
  • 242 percent higher throughput than the IBM V7000 at 3,132.87 SPC-2 MBPS(4).
  • 10 percent higher throughput than the IBM DS8800 at 9,705.74 SPC-2 MBPS(1).
• The Sun ZFS Storage Appliance's SPC-2 Price-Performance was:
  • 4.3x better price-performance than the IBM XIV at $152.34(3).
  • Over 2x better price-performance than the IBM V7000 at $71.32(4).
  • 7.7x better price-performance than the IBM DS8800 at $270.38(1).
• The SPC-2 benchmark consists of three distinct workloads designed to demonstrate the performance of a storage subsystem during the execution of business critical applications that require the large-scale, sequential movement of data. Workloads include large file processing, large database queries and video on demand.

Supporting Quote

• "Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances can deliver outstanding performance and cost savings versus other competitive solutions," said Phil Bullinger, senior vice president, Storage, Oracle. "This latest result on the SPC-2 benchmark demonstrates the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance excels on workloads that matter most in the enterprise, and can do so at a fraction of the cost."

Supporting Resources

• [ Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Series Family Data Sheet ]
• [ Oracle Storage Benchmarks ]
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Footnotes

(1) Results as of April 19, 2012, for more information see [ http://www.storageperformance.org/results ]. IBM DS8800, [ http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc2#b00051 ]. For additional analysis and breakdown of results, please see [ http://www.ideasinternational.com/Benchmark-Top-Ten/SPC-2-SPC-2-E ].
(2) Sun ZFS Storage 7420 Appliance [ http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc2#b00058 ].
(3) IBM XIV, [ http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc2#be00001 ].
(4) IBM Storwize V7000, [ http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc2#b00052 ].