OracleWorld Wrap: New Storage, Connectivity For Oracle

Princeton Softech, Princeton, N.J., unveiled its Princeton Softech Archive for Server Oracle Applications Edition, a module aimed at delivering active archiving capabilities to Oracle's E-Business Suite.

The module allows the archiving of complete sets of inactive historical data, and gives customers transparent access to archived data, all using standard Oracle forms and reports, said Geoff Hogan, executive vice president of corporate development and alliances for the company.

The new module is the latest in a range of modules the company offers to its basic data archiving software foundation. Other modules are available for such applications as Clarify CRM and PeopleSoft ERP, Hogan said.

Legato, which was recently acquired by EMC, unveiled an extension to its Co-StandbyServer data replication application which supports synchronous data mirroring for Oracle 8i and 9i local replication, according to a Legato spokesperson.

Sun Microsystems and Mountain View, Calif.-based InfiniBand switch developer Topspin Communications demonstrated an InfiniBand-based clustering solution bundle for the new Oracle 10g application.

The demonstration included multiple Sun Fire V60x Intel-based servers and StorEdge 3510 Fibre Channel storage arrays clustered with a Topspin switch, said Subodh Bapat, chief technologist for Sun's volume systems products. "It makes for a very effective, high-performance platform on which to run Oracle 10g," Bapat said.

The products, along with information on how to build the clusters, are currently available from the vendors for Oracle 9i RAC, and will be 10g-ready when Oracle releases that application, said Stu Aaron, vice president of marketing at Topspin.

Topspin also unveiled a technology partnership with Texas Memory Systems, the vendor of RamSan solid-state storage devices, to enable high-performance clustering between Oracle RAC database servers with high-speed connection to RamSans via an InfiniBand-to-Fibre Channel gateway, officials of the two companies said.

Meanwhile, Veritas Software, Mountain View, Calif., used OracleWorld to unveil its i3 application performance management software for Oracle database, application server, and E-Business Suite.

i3, which Veritas picked up as part of an acquisition of Precise Software Solutions late last year, is aimed at detecting, diagnosing, and correcting performance problems from the application to the storage array, company officials said. i3 is a part of Veritas' utility computing architecture.