HDS With New Oracle Database 12C Solutions

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., announced a portfolio of converged infrastructure and software solutions for Oracle Database 12c environments.

These solutions, which include Unified Compute Platform (UCP) 6000 for Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) and Database Infrastructure Evaluation Tool (DIET) help lower the total cost of Oracle RAC 12c infrastructure through optimizing hardware resources, streamlining operations and accelerating the migration to cloud-based business. These solutions, combined with Pentaho Corporation (a Hitachi group company)’s data integration, visualization, and analytics capabilities enable organizations to quickly unlock valuable insights from all data including those contained within critical applications like SAP Business Warehouse and Oracle E-Business Suite.

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DIET, developed by top Oracle Database experts at HDS and used with more than 800 global companies over the past eight years, is a simple-to-use, powerful utility that helps customers improve Oracle database performance and increase utilization of the underlying storage, compute and network infrastructure. With a few clicks, DIET provides a detailed graphical analysis and expert recommendations on how to address areas within an Oracle Database environment that often lead to significant reductions in capital and operational expenses as well as improved performance. It is a powerful way to streamline existing infrastructure and kick-start the transformation to the cloud and a real-time data-driven enterprise.

“HDS has built a simple, yet powerful, web-based utility to quickly and effectively identify issues found in Oracle databases,” said Nik Rouda, senior analyst, ESG. “With DIET, HDS can provide deep analysis of a customer’s actual Oracle environment, then use those results and their decades of hands-on experience to provide clear recommendations which are tailored specifically to them. DIET can even diagnose issues with other vendor’s hardware.“

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Because of company’s heritage of engineering reliable and cloud-ready converged, storage, compute and software solutions, more than 80% of the Fortune Global 100 run Oracle databases and applications on HDS solutions. As one of only nine Global Diamond Partners with Oracle, the company enjoys the collaboration between companies to give customers access to complete, end-to-end solutions optimized for any Oracle environment. UCP 6000 for Oracle RAC, DIET, and Pentaho provide an complete and cost-effective portfolio of solutions for Oracle databases that enable business to gain agility as well as derive rich insights from all their data.

“Hitachi is the leading provider of solutions to enable organizations to get the most out of their investments in Oracle database, extract more value from their data, and better control TCO. UCP 6000 for Oracle RAC and Hitach’s DIET enable flexibility to deploy Oracle and non-Oracle workloads on a variety of hypervisors and OSs, in either virtualized or bare metal environments,” said Jim Beckman, VP, global alliances and business development, HDS. “Hitachi’s portfolio of solutions and services for Oracle databases provides the foundation to efficiently consolidate databases and critical applications into clouds for management simplicity as well as perform analytics and to derive actionable business value.“

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