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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, Oracle Solaris 11, Aimed at Cloud Deployments, Enhances Network Virtualization (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire December 2012 (Publication: December 2011)
  "Oracle has expanded the functionality of Solaris with Oracle Solaris 11 adding new features related to virtualization and cloud computing. There is a very short list of vendors that show this kind of continued investment in operating systems."
• IDEAS International, With Solaris 11, Oracle Makes Sun's OS Its Own
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: December 2011)

• IDC, Oracle Injects SPARC T4 Processors in Its Netra Line of Carrier-Grade Servers (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire January 2013 (Publication: January 2012)
  "In summary, this technology refresh of the Netra systems signals Oracle's continued interest in R&D investments in the SPARC T-Series processors announced at Oracle OpenWorld in fall 2011 and its delivery of next-gen SPARC T4 on the Netra servers."
• 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."
• IDC, Oracle Builds Out Its Line of Engineered Systems (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: October 2011)
  "...Oracle reached an 18-month watershed at Oracle OpenWorld 2011, showing a family of engineered systems brought to market since it acquired Sun Microsystems in January 2010. [...] This is a strategy and approach to the business that will likely lead to a number of new reference architectures, and to an expanded series of engineered systems by 2012, IDC believes."
• Gartner, Introducing the Technology Dependency Matrix for Fabric-Based Infrastructure
  Distribution rights expire October 2012 (Publication: April 2011)

• Enterprise Strategy Group, Oracle's Pillar Axiom 600: A Great Fit in an Increasingly Broad Oracle Portfolio (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire January 2013 (Publication: December 2011)
  "The acquisition of Pillar by Oracle bodes well for both Oracle and the Axiom line. Despite a healthy amount of development investment, the Axiom platform had remained somewhat of a niche product. The storage market is one in which distribution and market traction often trump technical prowess. This product now has all three elements in its favor."
• Enterprise Strategy Group, Oracle ASM: A Frontrunner in Storage Management Solutions (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: September 2011)
  "Any technology that introduces simplified management and automation in support of data governance best practices - such the Automatic Storage Management (ASM) feature available in Oracle Database 11g--should be considered as a core enabler to address storage capacity management challenges"
• IDC, Oracle OpenWorld: What's in Front of Oracle Storage (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: November 2011)
  "Oracle's storage business has entered a new phase within its relatively young life. The company has clearly laid out its storage strategy and, with the storage product family largely in place, is now focusing on executing against that vision."
• 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.