Oracle Corporation has unveiled Oracle ZFS Storage ZS4-4, its new NAS storage system. Oracle ZFS Storage ZS4-4 with the new Oracle ZFS Storage OS8.3 delivers new capabilities for Oracle Database 12c environments available only with Oracle storage. Oracle ZFS Storage ZS4-4 provides pluggable database-level visibility into thousands of containers across the enterprise with industry-first analytics to simplify and accelerate storage performance tuning and troubleshooting in Oracle Database 12c and Oracle Multitenant environments.

By comparison, EMC and NetApp storage solutions see thousands of Oracle Database 12c pluggable databases as one instance, requiring manually-intensive tuning and guesswork. Oracle ZFS Storage ZS4-4 turbocharges greater amounts of data at in-memory speeds, doubling the performance of its predecessor with more than 30 GB/sec throughput and 50% more dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and CPU cores. ZFS Storage ZS4-4 has more DRAM than most NAS systems have in flash.

Oracle ZFS Storage ZS4-4 is built on the industry's only in-memory, DRAM-based Hybrid Storage Pool architecture and superior multi-threaded symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) OS which takes advantage of all 120 cores in parallel and 3 TB DRAM per cluster. With up to 90% of system I/O delivered from memory, customers can significantly accelerate application performance. Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances include Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256-bit data-at-rest encryption at the project-, share- or LUN-level with the capability to combine encrypted and non-encrypted volumes in a system.

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances also support Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC) and automatic data optimization with HCC for Oracle Database 12c. HCC enables data warehousing and archiving environments, among others, to compress by an average of 12x, while increasing database query performance by up to 5x, and reducing storage capacity costs by 40%.