What happened to Oracle’s storage? Aside from tape storage doing slightly better, does the IT giant fundamentally have a long-term viable external storage array product line?

Oracle's general hardware business is gradually sluggish. The chart below shows the overall quarterly sales including hardware product revenue. Storage sales contributed to the total number of hardware.

Oracle ended the third fiscal year. Quarterly Revenue and Net Income

The chart below clearly shows how their hardware sales per quarter have declined over the years. Since Oracle entered the hardware business through the acquisition of Sun

From a large Why did the hardware business become smaller in the beginning?

What needs to be done Oracle has recently focused on updating its server hardware, but storage has not yet become a shining star. There is work to be done here, too. Putting the tape drives aside for now Those that seemed to be doing well Google used Streamline instead of just focusing on network storage array products ZFS Storage Appliance and Axiom arrays

ZFS storage appliances

According to Gartner, Sun ZFS The Storage Appliance is Oracle's primary storage for Oracle VMs and backup for Exadata systems. Other vendors have diluted Oracle's ZFS trademark using open source ZFS software in their arrays, notably Nexenta and Greenbytes, who have rewritten and improved ZFS's deduplication. Code Coraid has a ZFS-based NAS head for its EtherDrive arrays. Hybrid array startup Tegile also has ZFS-based software. ZFS is a file system that uses RAID and faces competition from object storage technologies like Amplidata. (OEMed by Quantum) Dell (Caringo) HDS NetApp’s StorageGRID and Scality Vendors such as Scality are focusing on object technology Joyent has a cloud object storage service Oracle has no object storage capabilities

ZFS is fundamentally A disk-based technology uses flash memory for read and write caching. For example, NetApp is building a FlashRay product as its hot data storage device. EMC has an XtremIO product. Oracle has not announced any exclusive flash array storage technology

< p> Other vendors have unified file and block storage products adding iSCCI block access to their NFS and CIFS/SMB file access NetApp has done this with its FAS arrays EMC has unified its midrange file and block access array product line with VNX FCoE The arrival of ZFS will further weaken file and block access to arrays. ZFS supports iSCSI access to a volume, but ZFS is not marketed by Oracle as a unified file and block storage product.

Possibly due to the traditional file system in Hadoop The big data market is not very active and there are some connectivity technologies that can connect ZFS and Hadoop, such as one from Nexenta. The question now is what's next for the ZFS Storage Appliance? Will it allow all-flash array hardware to be connected to disk-based products? Nexenta already provides support for all-flash hardware infrastructure for its ZFS software. Greenbytes' appliance is an all-flash product. Oracle's ZFS Storage Appliance will be left behind unless they offer all-flash hardware, which will require massive changes to the ZFS code or Introducing a completely new code base

Pillar Axiom

Oracle's mid-year acquisition of the SAN Access Array is a high-end disk-based system with solid-state drive (SSD) support. ProductsAxiom

SSD support was added and the software was updated starting in 2010. There was another Axiom software update version in 2018 that improved management and added physical area separation of replication and data

Now the array (as of the 2018 update) has After three years of using a disk-access-based operating system like the ZFS Storage Appliance in the face of competition from faster all-flash arrays for primary data storage, it has reached a point where both hardware and policies need to be updated lishixinzhi/Article/ program/Oracle/201311/18240