Over the past eight years, all-fash arrays (AFAs) have come to dominate primary storage spend in the enterprise. Given their ability to deliver consistent performance at scale, they are commonly used to host latency-sensitive, online transaction processing workloads that rely on relational databases (DBs) like Oracle. Pure Storage is a leader in the AFA market, and the vendor’s influence over the past decade has helped mold an enterprise storage experience that is very different from that which has historically been provided by established enterprise array vendors.
Pure Storage targeted the relational database market (among others) early on with their FlashArray and has built up a considerable installed base of Oracle customers. The vendor’s current fagship array, the FlashArray//X, offers a number of features that optimize the performance, availability, and manageability of Oracle environments.
IDC interviewed a cross-section of enterprise customers to understand the impact of running Oracle database applications on the Pure Storage platform. These customers reported that Pure Storage serves as an efficient and cost-effective platform while delivering the performance, agility, and reliability required to optimize Oracle applications.
