Oracle Hardware Assisted Resilient Data (HARD) Initiative

Initiative Overview

Oracle's Hardware Assisted Resilient Data (HARD) Initiative is a comprehensive program designed to prevent data corruptions before they happen.  Data corruptions are very rare, but when they happen, they can have a catastrophic effect on a database, and therefore a business.  By implementing Oracle's data validation algorithms inside storage devices, Oracle will prevent corrupted data from being written to permanent storage. This type of end-to-end, high level software to low level hardware validation has never been implemented before. HARD will eliminate a large class of failures that the database industry has so far been powerless to prevent.  RAID has gained a wide following in the storage industry by ensuring the physical protection of data, HARD takes data protection to the next level by going beyond protecting physical bits to protecting business data.

See HARD Fact Sheet for more details.

Current HARD Initiative Members and Validated Products

Member List and Validated Products

Additional Information

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Oracle.com

Support Information
 
Oracle's Hardware Assisted Resilient Data (HARD) Support Note (158367.1)