Guest post by Aaron Newcomb, Solutions Marketing Manager, NetApp

No one wants the 2:00 am distressed phone call disturbing a good night's sleep. For IT Managers and Database Administrators that 2:00 am call is typically bad news regarding the systems they support. Users in another region are not able to access an application. Customers are not placing orders because the system is responding too slowly. Nightly reporting is taking too long and impacting performance during peak business hours. When your business critical applications running on Oracle Database are not performing at the speed of business that creates barriers to customer satisfaction and remaining competitive. NetApp wants to help break down those barriers and help our customers get a good night sleep instead of worrying about the performance of their Oracle Database.

NetApp today unveiled a solution designed to address the need for extreme performance for Oracle Databases with FlexPod Select for High Performance Oracle RAC. This integrated infrastructure solution offers a complete data center infrastructure including networking, servers, storage, and the management software you need to run your business 24