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• On Demand Webcast Replay: How to Manage Your Data Center with Oracle Virtual Networking (April 30, 2013)
  Learn how to improve infrastructure performance, significantly reduce costs and complexity, and simplify storage and server connectivity with Oracle Virtual Networking products. View a demonstration of the Oracle Fabric Manager and find out how the Oracle Fabric Interconnect, the core of the data center fabric solution, simplifies data center management by dynamically connecting any server to any network and storage.
• Sun Modular Disk
  
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  • Sun Storage 6180 Array
  • Sun Storage 6580 Array
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• Partner News
• Current Global PartnerNetwork Newsletter
• Current Partner Enablement Update
• InDepth Newsletters – Inside news and original content you won't find anywhere else, delivered to your inbox each quarter, on Oracle applications and technology solutions.
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• Oracle Magazine Feature Casts
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• Search here by keyword for upcoming Boot Camps and Partner classes within your country. For more advanced searches, choose detailed search criteria here in the upper right hand box!

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• Featured Sun Storage and Tape Training for Partners
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• Enablement 2.0: Jumpstart your implementation skills via the Enablement 2.0 Boot Camps. These modular training programs are developed exclusively for partners and include key Oracle solutions
• OPN Partner Awareness Series (learn how to leverage the OPN Program and Portal)
• Access the Education Tools & Resources section of the Oracle PartnerNetwork portal to find more training resources!
• Competency Center: Leverage this unparalleled enablement resource to train your staff on how to develop, sell, and implement Oracle solutions. Within the Competency Center you will find:
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• Oracle University: Leverage the premier provider of training for Oracle technologies and products. We offer thousands of courses for learners around the world!
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Distribution Rights

This Knowledge Zone was formerly called the Sun Disk Storage Knowledge Zone.

View the complete list of SAN Storage Knowledge Zone products

Check the criteria and apply now to distribute SAN Storage products.

Recommended Training

Prior to executing a distribution agreement, Oracle strongly encourages its partners to confirm their understanding of Oracle's business ethics practices by taking the Anti-Corruption Training below and passing a short skill assessment.

• Access Oracle Partner Anti-Corruption Training

News and Information

New! Global Systems Community Newsletter for Oracle Storage Systems

Oracle Virtual Networking Partner Sales Playbook (PDF) - Learn about Oracle Virtual Networking product positioning and functionality. This playbook equips you to sell, identify and qualify opportunities, pursue specific sales plays, and deliver competitive differentiation. Find out where you should plan to focus your resources, and how to broaden your offerings by leveraging the OPN Specialized enablement available to your organization.

Xsigo Products Now Available
You are authorized to resell/distribute Xsigo products if you have resell rights to one of the following Knowledge Zones: x86 Servers, Blade Servers, T or M-Series Servers, Desktop Virtualization, or NAS, SAN, Flash, or Tape Storage.

• The Xsigo Sales Kit can be found on the Oracle Networking Technologies Sales Kit page.
• Oracle Virtual Networking training:  Sales, Presales
• Oracle-Xsigo Products Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• Xsigo Product Strategy Webcast Replays - Unable to view live, want to review, or share with a colleague? Watch on demand.
  • EMEA / North America / Latin America
    • Xsigo Systems VAD Update: Understanding the Xsigo Channel Model & Product Strategies (November 13, 2012)
    • Xsigo Systems Partner Update: Get Ready to Sell Xsigo Systems Products With Oracle (November 15, 2012)
  • Asia Pacific / Japan
    • Xsigo Systems VAD/Reseller Partner Update Webcast: Get Ready to Sell Xsigo Systems Products with Oracle (November 13, 2012)
• On Demand Webcast Replay: How to Manage Your Data Center with Oracle Virtual Networking (April 30, 2013)
  Learn how to improve infrastructure performance, significantly reduce costs and complexity, and simplify storage and server connectivity with Oracle Virtual Networking products. View a demonstration of the Oracle Fabric Manager and find out how the Oracle Fabric Interconnect, the core of the data center fabric solution, simplifies data center management by dynamically connecting any server to any network and storage.

New Hardware Technical Resource Center
The Oracle Hardware Technical Resource Center provides Sales Engineers and Sales Consultants access to critical technical product information for Oracle servers and storage. Resources include detailed product specifications, configuration rules and flowcharts, technical FAQs, interoperability, and technical sales tools.

Registration is required. Already registered? Access the Resource Center.

Oracle acquires Pillar Data Systems
Read the letter to partners from Judson Althoff, Senior Vice President, Oracle Worldwide Alliances and Channels, outlining the benefits of the combination.

Listen to the Pillar Welcome Webcast Replay. Understand the OPN program and how to grow your business with Oracle.

Pillar Axiom 600 Sales Playbook for Partners - Learn about Pillar Axiom 600 product positioning and functionality. This playbook equips you to sell, identify and qualify opportunities, pursue specific sales plays, and deliver competitive differentiation. Find out where you should plan to focus your resources, and how to broaden your offerings by leveraging the OPN Specialized enablement available to your organization.

Drive New Opportunities with Oracle Optimized Solutions
Oracle Optimized Solutions are application-to-disk reference architectures that can be used to drive new opportunities into existing accounts. These solutions are designed to address your customer’s most critical application and infrastructure needs – such as mission-critical database, cloud infrastructure, and high availability Oracle E-Business Suite deployments.

Sized for various workloads, these solutions are flexible and can be used for new deployments, competitive takeouts, application upgrades, and hardware refresh opportunities. Learn more

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• OPN PartnerCasts

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Education

Sales and Presales Training

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• Oracle University

Events

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Tools and Resources

Pillar Axiom 600 Storage System Sales Kit
The Pillar Axiom 600 Storage System Sales Kit includes a wide range of critical sales tools and product resources to help you efficiently move customers through the different stages of the sales cycle. Access now

Sun Storage 2500-M2 Arrays Sales Kit
The Sun Storage 2500-M2 Arrays Sales Kit includes a wide range of critical sales tools and product resources to help you efficiently move customers through the different stages of the sales cycle. Access now

Sun Data Management Software Information
News and announcements surrounding Oracle’s comprehensive suite of storage software. Access now

Oracle Hardware Marketing Kits
Designed to help you quickly and cost-effectively develop and roll out demand generation campaigns. There are a wide variety of campaigns available that support Oracle’s server and storage product lines. Learn more

Oracle Networking Products
News and announcements surrounding Oracle’s comprehensive suite of networking products. Access now

Other Product Resources

• Warranty Support Information for Oracle Hardware
• Worldwide Configuration Guides
• My Oracle Support Center
• Sun System Handbook
• Benchmarks from Oracle’s Strategic Applications Engineering group

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News and Information

• On Demand Webcast Replay: How to Manage Your Data Center with Oracle Virtual Networking (April 30, 2013)
  Learn how to improve infrastructure performance, significantly reduce costs and complexity, and simplify storage and server connectivity with Oracle Virtual Networking products. View a demonstration of the Oracle Fabric Manager and find out how the Oracle Fabric Interconnect, the core of the data center fabric solution, simplifies data center management by dynamically connecting any server to any network and storage.
• Oracle Virtual Networking Partner Sales Playbook (PDF) - Learn about Oracle Virtual Networking product positioning and functionality. This playbook equips you to sell, identify and qualify opportunities, pursue specific sales plays, and deliver competitive differentiation. Find out where you should plan to focus your resources, and how to broaden your offerings by leveraging the OPN Specialized enablement available to your organization.
• Pillar Axiom 600 Sales Playbook for Partners - Learn about Pillar Axiom 600 product positioning and functionality. This playbook equips you to sell, identify and qualify opportunities, pursue specific sales plays, and deliver competitive differentiation. Find out where you should plan to focus your resources, and how to broaden your offerings by leveraging the OPN Specialized enablement available to your organization.
• Unique Opportunity for Advance Pillar Axiom 600 Training – Learn more about Pillar products and understand how you can benefit of the Pillar Axiom 600 product addition to Oracle’s storage line.
• Partner News
• Pillar Partner Welcome Webcast – Catch the 14th September 2011 replay of the Pillar Welcome Webcast. Understand the OPN program and learn more about how you can grow your business with Oracle.
• Current Global PartnerNetwork Newsletter
• Current Partner Enablement Update
• InDepth Newsletters – Inside news and original content you won't find anywhere else, delivered to your inbox each quarter, on Oracle applications and technology solutions.
• Subscribe to RSS news feeds Learn more about RSS feeds – find out what they are and how they might be useful to you!
• Oracle Magazine Feature Casts
• OPN PartnerCasts Check out these podcasts designed especially for Oracle partners.

Local Information

• EMEA Alliances and Solutions Corner
• Search here by keyword for upcoming Boot Camps and Partner classes within your country. For more advanced searches, choose detailed search criteria here in the upper right hand box!

Education

• Enablement 2.0: Jumpstart your implementation skills via the Enablement 2.0 Boot Camps. These modular training programs are developed exclusively for partners and include key Oracle solutions.
• OPN Partner Awareness Series (learn how to leverage the OPN Program and Portal).
• Access the Education Tools & Resources section of the Oracle PartnerNetwork portal to find more training resources!
• Competency Center: Leverage this unparalleled enablement resource to train your staff on how to develop, sell, and implement Oracle solutions.
• Oracle University: Leverage the premier provider of training for Oracle technologies and products. We offer thousands of courses for learners around the world!
• Search here by keyword for upcoming Boot Camps and Partner classes within your country. For more advanced searches, choose detailed search criteria here in the upper right hand box!

Events

• Oracle PartnerNetwork Events Calendar
• Oracle Global Events Calendar

Tools and Resources

• Tools
  • SE Guides
  • Support for Sun Products
  • Warranty Support Information for Sun Products
• Resources
  • Enablement Benefits
  • Development Benefits
  • Sun Downloads
  • Documentation
  • BigAdmin System Admin Portal
  • OpenSolaris Documentation Community
  • Sun Support Center
  • Sun Documentation Center
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• Watch the Getting Started with OPN Specialized Training Series for Pillar to learn about opportunities to expand your business with Oracle.
• View the Specialization Catalog for all launched and planned Specializations.
• View the Product Mapping to Specialization and set the filter to view products covered in a specific Specialization.
• Learn about Advanced Specializations.
• View instructions on How to Utilize Worldwide and Associate Resources to Obtain Specialization.

Pillar Axiom 600 Storage System Specialization (Qualifying Specialization)

The Pillar Axiom 600 Storage System Specialization recognizes partner organizations that are proficient in selling and implementing Pillar Axiom 600 Storage Systems.

The Pillar Axiom 600 is an application-aware storage system, ideal for virtualized infrastructure projects, Oracle databases, and many others. The Axiom 600 provides industry-leading capacity utilization without sacrificing performance, and its ability to dynamically provision data and applications provides an effective solution for consolidating storage onto a single system. Topics covered in this Specialization include hardware installation, setup, and configuration, monitoring and support, data services configuration, and performance and application sizing.

Oracle partners who achieve this Specialization are differentiated in the marketplace through proven expertise in Pillar Axiom 600 Storage System solutions.

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