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Oracle Announces That Its ZFS Storage Appliance Has Surpassed $1 Billion In Revenue

by Adam Armstrong

Oracle Corp announced that its ZFS Storage Appliance has hit the milestone of generating over a billion dollars in revenue so far. The Appliance is the fastest growing in Oracle Server and Storage Systems business unit with over 5,000 customers and 15,000 systems installed. A vast majority of Fortune 100 companies have also deployed the ZFS Storage Appliance including four out of the top five banks.


Oracle Corp announced that its ZFS Storage Appliance has hit the milestone of generating over a billion dollars in revenue so far. The Appliance is the fastest growing in Oracle Server and Storage Systems business unit with over 5,000 customers and 15,000 systems installed. A vast majority of Fortune 100 companies have also deployed the ZFS Storage Appliance including four out of the top five banks.

The Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance is an enterprise NAS that shares deep co-engineering with Oracle Database. The Appliance is a hybrid that leverages a unique cache-centric architecture featuring massive DRAM plus Flash for extremely demanding workloads. The Appliance is currently offered in two models, the entry-level ZS3-2 and the high performing ZS4-4.

Organization types that use the ZFS Storage Appliance include:

  • Nearly 300 financial institutions worldwide process more than 1 trillion financial transactions.
  • Five of five semiconductor companies leverage Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance to develop their innovations.
  • Major movie studios rely on Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance in the postproduction stage of the highest digital effect blockbuster movies. Leading international media companies depend on Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance to deliver digital media content to their end users.
  • The world's largest oil and gas companies depend on Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance to serve up their liquid gold.
  • The world’s fastest growing cloud entrusts its infrastructure of more than 200 PB to Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance, and the cloud keeps growing.

Benefits of Oracle ZFS Appliance include:

  • Accelerate business performance, increase productivity, reduce IT spend and risk, and speed time to market
  • Lower storage cost and capacity by up to 12x, speed database performance by 5x over the competition
  • Reduce database setup and tuning by more than 65% to speed time to market and reduce management overhead
  • Provides visibility and storage analytics per database (or pluggable database) to identify database-related storage issues with 67% fewer steps
  • Dynamically and intelligently serves 70 to 90% of I/O from DRAM, the fastest storage media (DRAM is 1000x faster than flash) to deliver high-performance for any workload
  • Reduce complexity by consolidating multiple storage interconnects into one system, simplifying deployment and reducing risk
  • Virtually eliminate the risk of undetected data corruption and automates storage failure remediation
  • Optimize capacity and data protection out-of-the-box to reduce cost and meet SLAs
  • Reduces risk and speeds implementation
  • Low cost monthly subscription model shifts acquisition costs from CapEx to OpEx

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