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• ESG, Is Oracle Breathing New Life into Sun Storage
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: July 2010)
  These guys have a really good story to tell. They have the apps, database, server, switches (data center fabric only, Infiniband, not going after Cisco any time soon) and storage. They have a real converged computing story. Exadata is pretty impressive, and the management team we saw over the past 2 days was very impressive.

• IDC, Oracle Linux Takes Its Place in the Operating Systems Market (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire October 2013 (Publication: October 2012)
  "Oracle's approach to engineered systems and standardized software offerings with Oracle VM Templates built on Oracle Linux is in synchronization, with the trend of customers beginning to factor cloud computing into their internal road maps. As the only Linux distribution provider that is also a hardware OEM, Oracle has the capability to offer fully integrated and tested Linux systems."
• IDC, Oracle Delivers Unique Value with Oracle Solaris (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire October 2013 (Publication: October 2012)
  "The company has made a strong commitment to Solaris on both SPARC and x86 systems, as well as to Linux on x86 systems, and expects to continue to enhance Oracle Solaris 11 with update releases once a year as well as Solaris 12, which is already on the road map."

• IDC, Perspective: IDC Health Insights' Top Preferred Life Science Technology Vendors for 2013 (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire May 2014 (Publication: May 2013)
  "Oracle led all software vendors as the most likely choice for life science software purchases during 2013, with 33% (up from 26.1% last year) of life science companies planning to spend money with Oracle."
• The Clipper Group, Resetting the Server Bar -€” Oracle Claims Database Performance Superiority (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire May 2014 (Publication: April 2013)
  "With the announcement of Oracle'€™s SPARC T5 family of servers, Oracle has staked a solid claim for not only performance leadership for these high-end requirements, but also price/performance leadership as well."
• IDC, Oracle Launches T5 and M5 Servers: A New Generation of Oracle's SPARC/Solaris Servers (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire October 2013 (Publication: April 2013)
  "For longtime Sun customers, the technology refresh will be welcome, leading to improved SPARC server sales right away. But Oracle can be expected to look far beyond its own installed base, planning to grow its total available market (TAM) by taking share from its longtime Unix competitors, IBM and HP."
• Ovum, Oracle Engineered Systems provides consistency and reliability in service delivery (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire March 2014 (Publication: March 2013)
  "... Ovum considers that all three meet specific current customer demands: Oracle SPARC SuperCluster offers centrally managed flexibility, while Oracle Exalogic and Oracle Exadata offer scalability and rapid expansion, and are delivered as fully integrated hardware and software solutions for the middle tier and database tier respectively. These represent the beginning of what Ovum believes will be a number of engineered solutions with a specific dedicated purpose or workload."
• Forrester, Oracle Delivers on SPARC Promises (Blog Entry)
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: January 2013)
• Forrester, Oracle Delivers On SPARC Promises With New T4 Processors And Systems
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: September 2011)
  "Committed SPARC/Solaris users can breathe a sigh of relief and shelve their migration plans with a multi-year promise of increases in both CPU and systems performance."

• The Clipper Group, Revisiting the Search for Long-Term Storage - A TCO Analysis of Tape and Disk (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire June 2014 (Publication: June 2013)
  "We found that the average cost for a disk-based back-end storage solution costs about 26 times as much as the average cost of a tape-based solution using an automated tape library (ATL)."
• IDC, Oracle Storage: Standalone and Engineered Systems (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire December 2013 (Publication: June 2013)
  "Over the past several years, Oracle has developed an extensive arsenal of storage products, from distributed file systems to external disk storage systems to tape automation."
• ESG, Oracle Storage: A Force to be Reckoned With? (PDF)
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: April 2011)
  "Oracle is getting increasingly active in the storage business and it looks to have the desire, resources, and products to become more of a factor in the overall marketplace. Although a non-traditional player in this space, its Sun/StorageTek acquisition, combined with its traditional areas of strength, are creating an opportunity for it to be a disruptive (i.e., successful) element."
• Josh Krischer & Associates: StorageTek Virtual Library Extension (VLE) - Single Common-Management Tiered-storage Infrastructure (PDF)
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: January 2011)
  "This white paper goes in detail on the benefits of a multi-tier storage architecture for mainframe virtual tape environments."
• The Clipper Group, In Search of the Long-Term Archiving Solution - Tape Delivers Significant TCO Advantage over Disk (PDF)
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: December 2010)
  "For long-term archiving of digital data, the average disk-based solution costs 15 times the average tape-based solution."
• ESG, NERSC: Proving Tape as Cost-Effective and Reliable Primary Data Storage (PDF)
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: December 2010)
  "This case study explains how Lawrence Livermore Labs are using tape as primary storage for their data, and only make one single copy. "
• Horison, Tiered Storage Takes Center Stage (PDF)
  Distribution do not expire (Publication: September 2010)
  "This research notes explains how a multi-tiered storage system with automated data management provides the optimal solution for managing the 21st century data explosion. It also proposes to assign a monetary value to tiers of data to help optimizing storage infrastructure expenses."
• Horison, Tape The Digital Curator of the Information Age (PDF)
  Distribution do not expire (Publication: September 2010)
  "This research notes examines the tape market and details the reasons behind the transition from a backup and restore solution to a premier long-term storage technology and archive."
• Horison, Tape Technology Leaps Forward in The 3rd Era (PDF)
  Distribution do not expire (Publication: September 2010)
  "This research note details why the economics of tape for many applications are compelling from an acquisition cost and more importantly a cost of ownership perspective. At the same time, the reliability of tape products has significantly improved in the third era though many businesses remain unaware of these enhancements."
• Horison, Oracle’s Storage Augments Mainframe Renaissance (PDF)
  Distribution do not expire (Publication: September 2010)
  "This commissioned white-paper details why with its latest Virtual Storage Manager, Oracle StorageTek boosted its mainframe virtual tape storage solutions."
• ESG, Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance is a Real (and Really Capable) Unified Storage Contender (PDF)
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: September 2010)
  "When the 7000 Series was new and came from the "uncertain stable" of Sun, its potential users could be forgiven for overlooking it despite its massively impressive capabilities. Now it is a time - and market-proven offering that has just added increased speed, capacity, and functionality - and it is delivered from the "thoroughbred house" of Oracle. Any excuses users may have for not considering it as a strong and capable mid-to-high market storage contender are getting pretty hard to come by."

• ESG, Is Oracle Breathing New Life into Sun Storage
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: July 2010)
  These guys have a really good story to tell. They have the apps, database, server, switches (data center fabric only, Infiniband, not going after Cisco any time soon) and storage. They have a real converged computing story. Exadata is pretty impressive, and the management team we saw over the past 2 days was very impressive.