Oracle turns to NetApp to improve database disk access
By Gary Flood,
Database giant Oracle has signed up storage specialist Network Appliance to develop a product to let customers strip out a layer of complexity when accessing storage.
NetApps has created a piece of software, Direct NFS Client, that lets the Oracle database access storage directly without invoking a hardware or fibre channel protocol call.
The idea is to boost database run-time performance of customer Oracle-based gird implementations of its 11g database suite.
The software will be included in a future Oracle release.
Key to the approach is the way the software obviates the need for the system to know all the various implementations of NFS (Network File System), the main Unix distributed file management system, which has slightly different implantations between Linux and the main Unix varieties.
This version will also run on Windows clients, making it possibly attractive to smaller companies, say the firms.
"This cuts out complexity and means customers don't have to worry about all the various implementations of NFS," claims Paul Hargraves, consulting services engineer at Network Appliance.
You may also like...
Sponsored Links
advertisement
You may also like...
Latest Networking Analysis & Insight
Welcome to the stay-at-home Olympics
Inside the Enterprise: The Government has warned of disruption, and the Civil Service is practising working from home. Could IT yet save businesses from chaos on an Olympian scale?
- Q&A: Cisco on servers, storage and strategy
- It's not about the browser, stupid!
- The Great British network squeeze
- New year: new suppliers
- Top 10 tech winners and losers of 2011
- 2011: The year in news
- UK rural broadband: too little, and too late
- HP PCs back on the menu with Dellish plans
- Top 10 social networking tips for enterprise - part one
Latest Networking Reviews
Swyx SwyxExpress X20 review
Rating: ![]()
- Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Premium 15
- ForeScout Technologies CounterACT 6.3.4
- ThinPrint Printer Dashboard review: First Look
- TITUS Aware for Microsoft Outlook review
- Windows Phone 7 Mango review: First Look
- Dartware InterMapper review
- Kemp Technologies LoadMaster 3600 review
- Sangfor WANACC M5500 review
- Office 365 review: First look
advertisement
Most popular
- Google releases Chrome for Android beta
- Will someone rid me of these troublesome Macs?
- OneNote hits Google?s Android
- BlackBerry Bold 9790 review
- Google sends in Bouncer to sort out malicious apps
- Ubuntu vs. Windows 7 on the business desktop
- Who to trust after the VeriSign hack?
- Head to Head: Mac OS X 10.7 Lion vs Windows 7
- ACTA: the basics, the controversies, and the future
- BT considering Ofcom price cap appeal
Register for IT PRO
You'll get exclusive member benefits including free whitepapers, downloads, Webinars and weekly newsletters full of the latest IT PRO news, reviews, insight and expertise.



