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3PAR Platform Solutions for Oracle

The ChallengeWith Oracle^® databases, performance and availability are so critical that most organizations apply generous capacity and management resources to maintain needed service levels. Telltale signs include using RAID 1 for performance, overprovisioning for growth, labor-intensive tuning and planning, and costly or complex recovery solutions.

Once storage is provisioned, common actions such as deleting a tablespace or database and adding disks to an Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) disk group can result in stranded ASM disk space. This allocated but unused capacity can account for up to 50% of the total storage capacity provisioned to the Oracle database.

3PAR^® Utility Storage eliminates these inefficiencies, so your Oracle databases can start thin and stay thin.

Unique Solution Benefits

Rapid, Affordable Oracle Recovery	Only 3PAR, with its cost-effective and Oracle-aware snapshot technology Recovery Manager for Oracle, allows users to recover quickly and affordably, locally or remotely. Learn more »
Automatic Oracle Backup	Integrated with Veritas™ NetBackup, 3PAR Recovery Manager for Oracle and 3PAR Virtual Copy provide one-click, non-disruptive, off-host backup for Oracle databases on Linux® and Solaris™. Learn more »
Autonomic Performance	3PAR's massively parallel, autonomically load-balanced architecture improves performance and maintains it—intelligently and without administrator intervention, allowing you to "set it and forget it." Learn more »
Maximum Capacity Utilization	3PAR's Fast RAID 5 technology cuts data protection overhead by up to 87% while 3PAR Thin Provisioning cuts capacity purchases by up to 75%—without sacrificing performance. Learn more »
New Space Reclamation	Available only for 3PAR Utility Storage arrays, Oracle Database 10g and 11g customers using Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) can now reclaim allocated but unused disk space with 3PAR Thin Persistence and the new Oracle ASM Storage Reclamation Utility (ASRU). Learn more »
Rapid Application Development	Accelerate the development and testing of new applications by sharing production-quality Oracle data instantly, affordably, and flexibly. Learn more »

Oracle is a 3PAR Alliance Partner. 3PAR is an Oracle Gold Partner and a member of the Oracle Unbreakable Linux Program.