Oracle Introduces Cloud File System

Oracle (News - Alert) has introduced Oracle Cloud File System in a bid to help organizations deploy their applications, databases and storage in the cloud.

Thanks to this latest offering, organizations now have a solution that extends cloud characteristics to their storage by enabling effective storage pooling via a network accessible elastic storage cloud.

“Oracle Cloud File System delivers all the components and characteristics necessary for customers to deploy a storage cloud,” said Angelo Pruscino, senior vice president of product development at Oracle.

Pruscino said that organizations can move beyond expensive and difficult to manage and scale hardware and storage silos to a highly available, scalable cloud environment that adapts to change in workloads to meet their service level objectives.

Customers seeking to transition from a traditional computing model to a cloud computing environment can now consider the Oracle Cloud File System for providing shared pooled storage with unified namespace for applications, operational files, and user files; rapidly growing, shrinking, and migrating storage pools while applications are online. In addition, these customers can also take the help of this latest offering to access storage either directly over a storage network or over traditional networks.

The Oracle Cloud File System provides advanced data management and security features such as snapshots and replication of files and file systems for backups and disaster protection; data access security and encryption to protect from security threats; and easy aggregate management operations via file tags.

Additionally, Oracle’s newest solution comprises of Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System and Oracle Automatic Storage Management Dynamic Volume Manager.

“Oracle Cloud File System’s advanced and automated data management capabilities help to simplify storage pooling across files, middleware and applications in a cloud,” said Daniel Smith, senior DBA at Carfax.

Smith said that in addition, Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System replication coupled with Oracle Data Guard provides a complete disaster recovery solution for database files, external files and all other general purpose files in the operating system.

Additionally, Oracle also announced that Internode, an Australian Internet Service Provider, has deployed the Oracle Coherence In-Memory Data Grid, to cache customer connection data to dramatically expedite customer service calls.

Oracle is a complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. Earlier last year, CSC (News - Alert) announced the ability for its customers to transform their business applications to a cloud hosting infrastructure using Oracle hardware and software products.