Oracle has outlined its Storage vision and newly expanded product portfolio. This sees Oracle storage products being integrated with Oracle’s entire software stack to run best with Oracle Applications. The result will be extreme performance, efficiency and security to enable up to 10x faster performance at one tenth storage capacity.The same storage products are also being designed to deliver best-of-breed quality of service in mixed storage environments.“Macro economic factors are driving massive growth in storage,” said Oracle President Mark Hurd. “We now have the capabilities to make that change in the Oracle environment that leads to the ability to deliver up to 10x faster performance with only one tenth the storage capacity. These are the economics that can drive a sea change.”Specifically, Oracle storage strategy is to ensure that Oracle software runs faster and more efficiently on Oracle storage. Integrated automatic provisioning and management provides storage performance on demand, and streamlines end-to-end data movement and protection. Products that will benefit include Oracle Exadata Storage Server from Database I/O, Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance from NAS File I/O , Pillar Axiom from SAN lock I/O  and  Oracle StorageTek Tape from tape.

“Oracle software runs faster and more efficiently on Oracle Storage,” said John Fowler, Executive Vice President, Oracle Systems. “These same innovative Oracle Storage products are designed to be best-of-breed and hot-pluggable into existing mixed storage environments. This gives customers the best of both worlds – extreme performance for Oracle environments and the rest of the data center too.”
Oracle Exadata Storage, engineered for the Oracle Database, provides extreme performance for OLTP, data warehousing and database consolidation with industry leading optimizations including Query offload, Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression, Exadata Smart Flash Cache, IO Resource Manager, and InfiniBand interconnect.
Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance, the premier product for Network Attached Storage (NAS) File I/O, offers high-performance, efficient NAS consolidation for Oracle software, test and development and data protection. Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances offer industry leading efficiency and performance features including efficient snap/clone for test and development and InfiniBand interconnect for fast data protection.
Pillar Axiom storage, the most recent addition to the Oracle storage portfolio, will be the premier Oracle product for Storage Area Network (SAN) Block I/O. It delivers enterprise SAN consolidation with exceptional performance/capacity scaling, industry-leading efficiency and best-in-class, end-to-end quality of service.
Oracle StorageTek Tape, engineered for archive and data protection, is highly scalable, reliable and available for consolidating data for archive and data protection.