{"id":178,"date":"2007-01-15T09:42:37","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T17:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2007-01-15T09:42:37","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T17:42:37","slug":"oracle-databases-and-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/oracle-databases-and-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle Databases and Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Storage is growing much faster than the revenues and profits of companies&#8221; <a title=\"Ari Kaplan quote\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.in\/news\/viewArticle\/ARTICLEID=2690\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Ari Kaplan, president of the <a title=\"Independent Oracle Users Group\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ioug.org\" target=\"_blank\">Independent Oracle User&#8217;s Group<\/a>\u00a0(IOUG).\u00a0 Storage demand is being driven by regulatory compliance, increased business transactions,\u00a0and buisiness intelligence, and the bulk of the increased data is unstructured, in the form of graphics. audio, video and emails.<\/p>\n<p>The IOUG conducted a <a title=\"IOUG survey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ioug.org\/tech\/articles\/ResearchWire-Storage.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a> in September 2006 of 366 respondents in Oracle shops with more than 5000 employees, 57% of which were database or systems administrators.\u00a0 31% of those reporting have databases larger than one terabyte.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>92% expect that their database storage needs will increase in 2007 and 20% says the increase will be more than 50%<\/li>\n<li>60% report that database performance has been impacted because of lack of available storage<\/li>\n<li>20% had great uncertainty in estimating future storage requirements for &#8216;non-traditional&#8217; unstructured data.\u00a0 Many of those interviewed buffered their estimated storage needs by 10-25% to account for any unexpected storage need &#8216;surges&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Database administrators usually have a better sense of estimating storage requirements and they have become more involved in making decisions about storage that in the past may have been handled by different groups within IT.\u00a0 This is another example of how traditional IT responsibilities are being shared with other business organizations.<\/p>\n<p>As storage grows and terabyte-plus databases become commonplace, one problem noted is that disk drives are having a hard time keeping up with application processing requirements.\u00a0 Balancing capacity and performance requirements has become a major challenge for many organizations.<\/p>\n<p>On a related topic, this month Oracle is backing away from any storage vendor-specific support.\u00a0 Oracle announced that they are <a title=\"Oracle drops storage product certifications\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technology\/deploy\/availability\/htdocs\/oscp.html\" target=\"_blank\">dropping certifications<\/a> specific to specialized storage products.\u00a0 In the past, the Oracle Storage Compatibility Program (OSCP) certified compatibility of storage products with Oracle software.\u00a0 Oracle&#8217;s comment is that storage technologies are mature and well understood and certifications are no longer needed.<\/p>\n<p>Simultaneously, Oracle has also dropped their &#8220;<a title=\"Oracle Resilient Low-Cost Storage Initiative\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technology\/deploy\/availability\/pdf\/ora_lcs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Resilient<\/a> <a title=\"Resilient Low-Cost Storage Initiative\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technology\/deploy\/availability\/pdf\/ora_lcs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Low-cost Storage Initiative<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 Although the exact reason for why they discontinued this program is not clear.<!--6c4fc6f434d87ecb9c2022073e016920--><\/p>\n<div class=\"lightsocial_container\"><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" 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