Oracle boosts large backup workloads

Tech Week Europe writes.

This appliance integrates with its other engineered-together systems, including the Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud server and its SPARC SuperCluster rack servers.

A week ago, Oracle updated its super-fast ZFS network-attached storage system along with its main JD Edwards business services application - the latter of which is only redone once every few years. On 9 April, the company added new analytics capabilities for its StorageTek tape systems.

ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems as part of the Solaris operating system, eWeek reveals.

ZFS was unveiled in September 2004, and the source code for ZFS was integrated into the main trunk of Solaris development in October 2005. ZFS is the file system that powers all of Oracle's data centre hardware; Oracle acquired Sun in January 2010 to inherit ZFS and all its features.

If the ZFS Backup Appliance were a motor vehicle, it would be breaking speed records. Oracle said its ZFS Backup Appliance packs the throughput to back up full workloads at speeds up to 20 terabytes per hour and up to 9.4TB per hour for full restore - way above most other systems' published benchmarks.