CLARiiON joins forces with Oracle and NEC to build multi-terabyte data warehouse; Demonstrates Oracle test-to scale program; 2.5-Terabyte CLARiiON RAID 5 decision support solution is largest for Japanese Kanji character set; Uncompromised performance and availability -- less expensively.SOUTHBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 1996--The CLARiiON Business Unit of Data General Corp., announced today it has joined forces with two of the world's largest open systems companies, Oracle Corp. and NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Corp., to demonstrate a 2.5-terabyte decision support solution (DSS (1) (Digital Signature Standard) A National Security Administration standard for authenticating an electronic message. See RSA and digital signature. (2) (Digital Satellite S ) to thousands attending Oracle Open World in Makuhari, Japan. Using standard technologies, the three industry-leading vendors have built a world-record-size commercially configured data warehouse for Japanese Kanji (human language, character) kanji - /kahn'jee/ (From the Japanese "kan" - the Chinese Han dynasty, and "ji" - glyph or letter of the alphabet. Not capitalised. Plural "kanji") The Japanese word for a Han character used in Japanese. character set data. The data warehouse showcases the Oracle Test-to-Scale program, a project designed to validate the capability of the Oracle Universal Database and a hardware platform to support a terabyte-scale data warehouse. The Test-to-Scale Program shows how open systems vendors are not only capable of supporting very large data warehouses, but are also committed to working together to provide complete data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse solutions. The 2.5-terabyte data warehouse with Japanese Kanji character set data consists of the CLARiiON RAID 5 storage system, the Oracle Universal Database with parallel query options, and an NEC eight-way Unix SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) A multiprocessing architecture in which multiple CPUs, residing in one cabinet, share the same memory. SMP systems provide scalability. As business increases, additional CPUs can be added to absorb the increased transaction volume. system. A terabyte is equal to one trillion characters - the equivalent of 500 million pages of text or approximately 40,000 four-drawer filing cabinets of information. "We are pleased to participate in this test-to-scale exercise with our partners Oracle and NEC," said Larry Hemmerich, vice president and general manager of the CLARiiON Business Unit. "We wanted an opportunity to demonstrate the value that CLARiiON engineering can bring to DSS customers around the world. RAID 5-based solutions are a cost effective way to implement large scale data storage systems. Demonstrating a variety of successful approaches to data warehousing proves to customers that this exciting new technology is ready and able to provide their business with a competitive edge today." "We are very excited to have an opportunity to showcase NEC's technology leadership and commitment for the very large data warehouse market," said Hiroshi Hatta, vice president, NEC Corp. "Combined with NEC's broad expertise in large scale systems integration, NEC can now offer a very cost effective alternative for our customers looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a large data warehouse solution." "We are witnessing tremendous growth for data warehousing in Asia. The team effort of Oracle, CLARiiON and NEC will provide the technology for this burgeoning market," said Takaaki Nagayama, general manager, Oracle's NEC Products Division. "It is very significant that we have implemented a data warehouse in multi-byte data capable of supporting a variety of Asian characters." The data warehouse was created and stress-tested by a team comprising technical experts from the three companies. This effort requires close teamwork for project definition, resource allocation resource allocation Managed care The constellation of activities and decisions which form the basis for prioritizing health care needs and implementation. Lead teams were assembled for the technical execution of the test-to-scale project which spanned the geographical locations of Westboro, Mass., Redwood Shores, Calif. and Tokyo where the database was created at NEC's Computer Group Development Center. First, the CLARiiON-Oracle-NEC team created a 1.3 terabyte relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. and managed the database load operation. This database incorporates approximately 6 billion line item rows. Over several days, the database and pointers were loaded onto eight CLARiiON disk array subsystems, each supporting over 300 million bytes of data. The aggregate size of the data warehouse including the spaces for indexes and temporary working areas amounted to 2.5 terabytes. The database is being exercised and stress-tested on an eight-way NEC UP4800 SMP system, running NEC/UX 11.4 operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . The stress test involved load and query exercises as well as, data placement on storage devices. The use of hardware and data redundancy Writing data to two or more locations for backup and data recovery. For example, data can be stored on two or more disks or disk and tape or disk and the Internet. See disk redundancy and data recovery. simulated a mission critical operation. The Test-to-Scale Program was run using the Oracle Universal Database, which extends the flagship software's unparalleled performance, scalability and functionality for data warehousing applications. Oracle Universal Database incorporates sophisticated features for parallel-aware optimization, bit-mapped index queries, unlimited star queries See star schema. , adaptive parallel queries and parallel hash joins, making it the industry's most comprehensive set of database functionality to serve as the foundation for customers' data warehousing applications. The terabyte data warehouse validates the scalability of the Oracle Universal Database on NEC/UX 11.4 in very large DSS environments, including high-speed data access to and from the CLARiiON disk array systems. DSS environments are important in all industries where large quantities of data must be maintained, consolidated, cross-referenced and retrieved. Data warehousing offers competitive advantages to forward-thinking IT organizations who apply the technology to drive critical business decisions. CLARiiON disk subsystems provide the high performance and data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. required by commercial applications through RAID 5 disk striping The spreading of data over multiple disk drives to improve performance. Data are interleaved by bytes or blocks of bytes across the drives. For example, with four drives and a RAID controller that simultaneous reads and writes all drives, four times as much data is read or written in the supported by flexible read/write caching. RAID 5 technology realized a 45 percent reduction in the amount of disk storage (a 2 terabyte reduction) needed to achieve the same level of availability offered by disk mirroring technology, also known as RAID 1. Industries such as telecommunications, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , manufacturing, transportation, insurance, retail and government will all benefit from this DSS exercise; which proves that large-scale data warehousing can be implemented with standard, open products. Although the test-to-scale exercise by Oracle, NEC and CLARiiON targets the high-end of current market requirements, data warehousing can also be implemented successfully in a broad range of configurations. DSS customers can design modular data warehouses with products from CLARiiON, Oracle and NEC. CLARiiON and NEC will each use their findings to optimize intelligent storage and processor hardware and software, for large-scale efforts. All three companies view the test-to-scale project as the first step in an ongoing commitment to evolving DSS solutions. CLARiiON is a business unit of Data General Corp.; an open systems company that specializes in providing servers, storage systems, and services to information technology users worldwide. The company, headquartered in Westboro, Mass., reported revenue of $1.2 billion in fiscal year 1995. Additional information on the company, its products and its services is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.dg.com. Oracle Corp., a $3 billion company, is the world's largest supplier of software for information management, and the world's second largest software company. The company offers its database, tools and application products along with related consulting, education and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services , in more than 90 countries around the world. For more information, call 415/506-7000. Oracle's World Wide Web address is http://www.oracle.com/. The Oracle Universal database can manage and deliver any type of data - relational, spatial, text, audio/video and Web - to any application, of any size, anywhere within a corporate enterprise. The Oracle Universal Database scales from gigabytes to terabytes of information and delivers superior support for enterprise-class data warehousing, systems management and on-line transaction processing (database) On-Line Transaction Processing - (OLTP) The processing of transactions by computers in real time. (OLTO) systems. NEC Corp., founded in 1899, is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and had net sales Net Sales The amount a seller receives from the buyer after costs associated with the sale are deducted. Notes: This amount is calculated by subtracting the following items from gross sales: merchandise returned for credit, allowances for damaged or missing goods, freight of $43 billion (US) in the 1994-5 fiscal year. NEC manufactures and markets a broad range of products, including computer systems; communications systems, which extends from switching systems Switching systems (communications) The assemblies of switching and control devices provided so that any station in a communications system may be connected as desired with any other station. to cellular phones, and electronic devices, which extends from microprocessors to memory chips. -0- CLARiiON is a registered trademark of Data General Corp. All other product names may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: CLARiiON Kathy Ficaro, 508/480-7196 or Oracle Corp. Stephen Berger 415/506-2700 or Data General Jim Dunlap, 508/898-6546 or Edelman Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. 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