Oracle has announced the Oracle-Sun Information Appliance Foundation that allows Oracle and Sun customers to reduce the risk and deployment time of data warehousing solutions based on Oracle Database 10g and Sun servers, storage and the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS).

The Oracle-Sun Information Appliance Foundations are reference configurations that provide a recommended database, server, and storage mix for a customer's specific requirements.

The reference configurations have combined CPU resources, memory, I/O bandwidth and disks into a design to help prevent performance or capacity bottlenecks. Oracle and its hardware partners have developed configurations for data warehouses with varying raw data, average concurrent user and workload complexity.

The Oracle-Sun Information Appliance Foundations offer multiple solutions for each set of requirements, allowing customers to quickly choose among vertical, horizontal configurations and SPARC or x64 (x86, 64-bit) architectures running Solaris or other supported operating systems.

"Sun and Oracle's joint effort improves architecture design and selection processes for IT departments, making it easy to implement well-designed, right-sized data warehouse solutions built upon Sun's robust infrastructure offerings including the Solaris 10 operating system," claims Juan Carlos Soto, VP, Market Development, Sun.