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Oracle H.A.R.D. Initiative Drives Industry Effort to Deliver Dependable Data

New Technology Slashes Risk of Data Corruption

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Nov. 5 / -- ( http://www.oracle.com/tellmemore/?1067828 ) Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL - news), the world's largest enterprise software company, today launched the Hardware Assisted Resilient Data (HARD) initiative, an industry-first initiative aimed at helping companies ensure higher levels of data integrity by preventing data corruption. The HARD initiative incorporates several technologies that can be embedded in storage devices to prevent data corruption. Available to Oracle's storage partners, this initiative is a comprehensive program that provides additional measures to prevent loss of data.

Data corruption, while rare, can have a catastrophic effect on a data- intensive business, often crippling operations during the many hours it can take to repair the database. By working with storage vendors to incorporate data validation directly into storage devices, Oracle and its partners are working to prevent data corruption.

``It's much better to prevent data corruption than to fix it after it occurs,'' said Robert Shimp, vice president of Database Product Marketing at Oracle. ``The Oracle HARD initiative is designed to eliminate the software and hardware errors that can cost a lot of time and money.''

Data corruption can inhibit the efficiency of an information technology (IT) organization, consuming time and resources to detect and fix, and reduce the ability for business applications to drive revenue. The Oracle HARD technology seeks to extend the ability of corporations to do more with less, through ensuring higher levels of data integrity for mission-critical information. By validating Oracle data in the storage devices, data corruption will be detected and eliminated before it has a chance to be written to permanent storage.

According to Vernon Turner, IDC group vice president, Global Enterprise Server Solutions, ``The HARD initiative from Oracle addresses a much needed function to help customers protect their data. This gives Oracle a step ahead of its competition.''

Oracle's HARD initiative has received strong endorsement from the storage industry and Oracle's partners. EMC is the first to deliver product for the HARD initiative. In addition to EMC, the following companies support the initiative: Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, NEC, Sun, and VERITAS.

``EMC is proud to deliver the first product under Oracle's new HARD initiative,'' said Don Swatik, vice president of Alliances for EMC. ``As companies continue to build centrally managed information storage networks, storage vendors must have deep technological partnerships in place aimed at ensuring safeguards against data corruption. EMC's long-standing relationship with Oracle provides customers with consistent first-to-market technology aimed at protecting their information. EMC Double Checksum software, also announced today, is the latest fruit of the EMC/Oracle relationship.''

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EMC:

``EMC is proud to deliver the first product under Oracle's new HARD initiative,'' said Don Swatik, vice president of Alliances for EMC. ``As companies continue to build centrally managed information storage networks, storage vendors must have deep technological partnerships in place aimed at ensuring safeguards against data corruption. EMC's long-standing relationship with Oracle provides customers with consistent first-to-market technology aimed at protecting their information. EMC Double Checksum software, also announced today, is the latest fruit of the EMC/Oracle relationship.''

Fujitsu:

``Oracle has once again shown leadership in data base data integrity through its HARD initiative,'' said Tatsushi Miyazawa, senior vice president and group president, Storage Systems Group, Fujitsu Limited. ``Such a focus is consistent with Fujitsu's long standing commitment to providing customer solutions addressing high availability mission critical imperatives. Fujitsu is looking forward to eliminate instances of data corruption through interaction between Fujitsu's innovative GR Storage and Oracle's industry leading data base software.''

Hewlett Packard:

``We have been briefed by Oracle on its new HARD initiative. We think it is very innovative. By combining both Oracle and partner technologies to provide end-to-end validation of customer data, this initiative will allow Hewlett Packard to provide unprecedented data protection for our customers. HP intends to join the HARD initiative and quickly bring solutions to market.''

Nora Denzel, vice president and general manager of Hewlett Packard's Network Storage Solutions Organization
Hitachi:

``Hitachi believes Oracle's HARD initiative and technology is an innovate approach to data protection and will significantly augment our existing data protection solutions. Ensuring data integrity through the entire stack from the database to hardware will give our customers better protection for their critical business data and increase application availability. We endorse this initiative and plan to integrate the HARD technology into our XP storage subsystems.''

Mr. Ikuo Kimura, administrative officers, chief operating officer, solution systems general manager, Storage Area Network Systems Solution Division, Hitachi, Ltd.
NEC:

``I believe this HARD initiative will achieve unprecedented high reliability for Oracle database. NEC, as a member of the initiative, plans to provide the technology with NEC disk array ''iStorage`` series to our customers, especially those of mission critical environment,'' said Koichi Ikumi, executive general manager of Computers Software Operations Unit, NEC.

Sun:

``By supporting Oracle's HARD Initiative and integrating Oracle's data validation technologies into the Sun StorEdge(TM) solution stack, Sun will provide unprecedented data protection for customers on Oracle platforms,'' stated Kathleen Holmgren, vice president, Network Storage Solutions Group, Sun Microsystems. ``Sun is focused on meeting our customers' data requirements, and leveraging complementary technologies from our partners is one way that we accomplish this.''

SOURCE: Oracle Corporation





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