Oracle teams with Dell, EMC for warehousing
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Pre-configured hardware/software package gobbles data Oracle launched a data warehouse initiative today by teaming with Dell and EMC to produce an easy to deploy, pre-configured data warehouse hardware and software package.â¦
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IBM  on Friday will take aim at the heart of data storage equipment leader EMC Corp.'s  market with a product that will allow EMC buyers to switch to IBM.
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(Source: Network Appliance) The focus on this independent study was a comparison of the total cost of enterprise-level Network Appliance, HP and EMC storage products in Oracle, IBM DB2&trade;, Microsoft SQL Server&trade; and other database environments.  Download this white paper to review their findings.
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IT industry heavyweights Dell, EMC, Intel and Oracle today sealed an alliance to develop grid computing technology and establish best practice.
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IBM has infiltrated deeper into EMC&#39;s storage line with a new version of its SAN (storage area network) Volume Controller software.
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle has shipped the first major upgrade to the stand-alone enterprise search software itÂ debuted last yearÂ emphasizing new links to third-party data sources and identity management systems. The company and its applications rivals, notably SAP, see significant revenue opportunities in selling customers products to securely search across their corporate databases, applications, file servers, portals and other Internet sites. The vendors argue that traditional enterprise search software is often too expensive and complicated to use, while desktop search offerings aren't well enough integrated with user authentication systems to enable secure querying. Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) 10g Release 10.1.8 is generally available Monday. In response to customer feedback on the initial version which focused on searching data held in Oracle software, the new release also supports non-Oracle information sources, according to Greg Crider, senior director of product marketing at Oracle. The data sources include Microsoft's Exchange and SharePoint, IBM's Lotus Notes and FileNet, and EMC's Documentum. Oracle users also requested support for third-party directory servers, Crider said, so the new release has hooks into Microsoft's Active Directory, Novell's eDirectory, Sun Microsystems' Java System Directory Server and the open-source OpenLDAP identity management directories. The new release of SES provides federated search capabilities through its Suggested Link feature to deliver real-time information as well as search results from any data source, Crider said. Federated search is the ability to send out a query to a number of distinct databases and then collect, merge and format the results to avoid duplication as much as possible. The Suggested Link feature in SES is compatible with the OneBox standard defined by Google, Crider said, so a query can be passed to any application supported by OneBox. Oracle also begun a new partner program, Secure Search Initiative, to encourage independent software vendors and systems integrators to provide additional connectors into non-Oracle data sources, including user desktops and business intelligence repositories. Oracle will particularly look to partners to provide hooks into third-party data sources which have already been highly customized, Crider said. At the same time, Oracle is both integrating and embedding SES into its own products, particularly its applications. Last week, the vendor officially launched new versions of all of its five applications families, highlighting the search capabilities SES has made possible in its Siebel 8.0 customer relationship management (CRM) software. To date, there have been 5,000 downloads of SES from Oracle's Web site, Crider said. He didn't comment on how many customers have actually purchased SES. While SES is built on Oracle's 10g relational database, SAP is adopting a different approach with its Enterprise Search offering due out in the first half of this year. Drawing on in-memory capabilities, the SAP software will allow users to carry out queries on the fly without first having to pre-aggregate and store the information in a database. SES 10g Release 10.1.8 is priced from $30,000 per central processor unit (CPU) and runs on Linux, Windows and Unix operating systems.
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(InfoWorld) - Network storage vendor EMC on Monday introduced a new data storage management product that is the fruit of three software acquisitions the company has made in recent years. EMC will launch its Infoscape intelligent information management software at an EMC user conference this week in Anaheim, California. Infoscape is designed to organize the thousands of unstructured computer files in an enterprise computer system, such as Word documents, PowerPoint Presentations, or spreadsheets. The software organizes files by their content, their importance or whether there are regulations requiring they be saved, said Rob Emsley, senior director of software product marketing, for EMC. Building such an organizational structure makes it easier to retrieve documents when they are needed. "This technology can provide a lot more information about the files in your infrastructure," said Emsley. The company also Monday launched EMC Information Management Strategy Service, a consulting service to help enterprises design, build and run an information management system. The new offerings were developed with technology EMC acquired from the acquisition of three document management software companies:Â Legato SystemsÂ andÂ Documentum, both in 2003, andÂ Smarts, in early 2005. The acquisitions are part of EMC's strategy to diversify from being primarily a storage hardware vendor. Software sales accounted for 37 percent of EMC's revenue in 2005, up from just 17 percent four or five years ago, Emsley said. With Infoscape, EMC is "taking a small but very important step," said Arun Taneja an analyst with Taneja Group. It's important because a major storage vendor is offering what he calls "information classification management software," but small because Infoscape initially can only run in an EMC Celerra storage environment. Although Infoscape is initially "closely integrated" with the Celerra DART (data access in real time) operating system, it will also work within EMC's Clariion and Symmetrix server families in the second half of 2007, said EMC spokesman Todd Cadley. Infoscape, he explained, manages the information not the storage, operating at the file system level. Therefore, it will work in heterogenous storage environments. Other major hardware makers such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard are evaluating similar solutions to the file management problem facing enterprises, said Taneja, and there are a handful of startups also developing solutions. It's possible that some of the larger companies could follow EMC's strategy and acquire some of the smaller software developers to create their own file management software products. The base Infoscape software module is $125,000 and capacity licensing starts at $9,000 per terabyte, EMC said.
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Here&#39;s the skinny: The EMC Storage Router made its debut at Storage Network World here this week, but only in ballroom demonstrations (see EMC on Virtualization: Wait for Us).
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Beware IBM, HP, Dell and Sun EMC's grand stretch across the data center continued this week with the purchase of Voyence - a maker of network configuration software.â¦
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But it's all a Dell plot, say high-end rivals. The Storage Bridge Bay (SBB) working group (www.sbb.org) is to release version one of the SBB spec next week. This defines standard electromechanics for the controller modules that go into stuff such as disk arrays.â¦
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The Dell/EMC CX3-10 is a entry-level storage system that can attach to either a SAN via Fibre Channel or a Gigabit Ethernet network via iSCSI. The array takes Fibre Channel or Serial ATA disks, and can hold up to 30TB of data.
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Hitachi Data Systems, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard this week are trying to leapfrog EMC for enterprise-class storage leadership using pretty much the same product -- HDS&#39;s new TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform.
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After aggressively placing its new storage boxes in direct competition with storage giant EMC, IBM has now released new storage software to support EMC&#39;s Symmetrix DMX Series.
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EMC has unveiled long-awaited storage virtualization technology that the company said will allow users to manage its arrays -- and high-end boxes from major competitors -- through a single interface.
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Dell and Microsoft are working together to integrate their systems management applications to allow customers to update server hardware and software with a single tool.
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(InfoWorld) - EMC has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Valyd Software, a Hyderabad, India, vendor of software for securing enterprise data. EMC did not disclose the sum it will pay for Valyd, a privately held company. Valyd's software will be brought into RSA, the security division of EMC that was set up last year to integrate products from itsÂ acquisition of RSA SecurityÂ andÂ Network Intelligence. The acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter, the Hopkinton, Massachusetts, vendor of storage management and security software said Tuesday. Valyd's technology for encrypting and securing data at the database and file system level will lead to the introduction of two new products from the RSA division, after the acquisition is complete, said Manoj Chugh, president of EMC India, on Wednesday. RSA Database Security Manager will address security of data on a variety of database management systems, while RSA File Security Manager will secure data security at the file and folder level, Chugh said. A focus of the RSA division is on products that manage and secure enterprise-wide information assets regardless of where they resides on the network, Chugh said. Valyd's technology, which runs on a large variety of operating systems and database systems, fitted well into the strategy of the RSA division, he added. Valyd Software was set up in 1998 to develop software to secure enterprise data. The company has over 50 staff in Hyderabad, which will be increased to 100 by the end of this year, Chugh said. The Hyderabad operation will focus on the development and enhancement of the new security products, he added. Indian product companies have emerged as acquisition targets for multinational companies. Oracle Corp., for example, has acquired a majority stake in Indian financial software company, i-flex Solutions Ltd. "India was until now perceived as a low-cost location for outsourcing work, rather than as a place where you could find top quality innovation and intellectual property," Chugh said.
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EMC's new Clariion AX4, for small and medium businesses, can take advantage of advanced enterprise storage management apps.