Sun Microsystems and Oracle have released Oracle Optimised Warehouse for Sun. The companies call the application a complete, out-of-the-box, high-performance data warehouse solution.
Built upon Oracle`s database and Sun`s hardware and operating systems, the product will be sold by Sun.
Oracle says it consists of Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Partitioning on a Sun Fire E20K server, the Sun open source Solaris operating system and Sun StorageTek 6540 arrays.
According to the company, the appeal of this pre-configured solution is that users have a fully functioning, optimised, scalable data warehouse up and running in a short time.
Ray Roccaforte, VP of data warehousing and business intelligence platform at Oracle, says Sun and Oracle`s engineering partnership in testing and optimising this data warehouse will help reduce costs and implementation times for customers.
He adds that the software and hardware components are pre-installed, configured, optimised, and ready to run.
"The solution is designed for data warehouses containing 10TB of raw data," he says, adding that future validated configurations are in the pipeline and will provide bigger solutions through the use of modular building blocks.
The product is generally available from Sun this week.
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