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Oracle blogs it’s sold more than a billion dollars’ worth of its ZFS appliance, with almost 15,000 systems installed by more than 5,000 customers. It is “currently one of the fastest growing products within the Oracle Server and Storage Systems business unit.” Sounds impressive, particularly with EMC saying it has sold a …

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  1. Dr. Mouse

    “the world’s fastest-growing cloud"

    Obligatory XKCD

    https://xkcd.com/1102/

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  2. toughluck

    Does EMC's flash array contain ordinary spinning rust disks? Oracle's ZFS appliances do, so it's quite reasonable that customers will not rely on flash so much, which will lower the price quite a bit.

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    1. kb3m
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      Yes it would be a fairer comparison if it included capacity or shelves sold. eXtremIO systems being flash based are more expensive per TB. Easily 4x as expensive per TB. Of course the time period is far shorter for eXtemIO.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    $1 billion eh? That just means they managed to sell a second unit then.

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  4. Mark 65

    Licensing and costs

    Oracle are the only people that can afford mass deployment and use of Oracle products.

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    Unfair timeline?

    I'm too lazy to go look at the Oracle blog making the claim, but leaving out that Oracle didn't own Sun in 2009, and thus the ZFS storage appliance doesn't seem fair. Was the purchase in 2011?

    I'd also be curious to know if they had a breakout showing what it may have been bought for. ie: ZFS backup app. tied with an Exadata? The appliance to be able to use the column(?) compression with an oracle database?

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