Unfortunately, that’s not where this story ends. The complicated There has to be a better way architecture your Storage Admin has created will now need to be managed! So, let’s take a moment to recap. DBAs are looking for consistent performance, resilience, and high availability. You’re looking for a way to get this at a reasonable cost. You care about complexity because when something goes wrong, you expect your Storage | Admin to be able to restore performance, maintain uptime or | Latency Spike recover data – quickly. | | | | What if you could get the performance, resilience, and high | | | availability without sacrificing simplicity? What if this cost the same | | || ||||||| |||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||| or less than your existing storage? Why wouldn’t you try it? When your application starts seeing latency spikes 9 months All-Flash Arrays solve the DBA - Storage Admin conflict from now, your Storage Admin only needs to refer to his handy by delivering: schema and spreadsheets to sort out what esoteric process • 100’s of thousands of IOPs with consistent sub-millisecond latency. associated with another application, is conflicting with your • Cost per GB, at or below the cost of disk. Compression, application. This kind of trouble-shooting takes hours or days, de-duplication and sophisticated management of consumer if it happens at all. That’s why Storage Admins always ask you grade flash have dropped the price of All-Flash Arrays to at or to buy storage when performance dips. It’s too hard to fix the below the cost of disk arrays. existing storage! • Consistent, predictable performance for all database workloads. Worse yet, what if you have a catastrophic failure in your • Better data resilience and protection. stack? This is when you realize that your application’s storage • Better data protection. The best All-Flash Arrays will offer architecture didn’t allow for granular enough snapshots space-optimized snapshots that support tighter RPOs and RTOs because the storage wasn’t available or the cost was too high. without the overhead. Again, no need to reduce protection to Now a lengthy rebuild from logs is required. While you didn’t cut costs! lose data, your RTO is blown. Send Pure Storage your AWR report, and we’ll schedule a free consultation with our Oracle performance experts to talk about how Pure Storage’s FlashArray can improve the performance and resiliency of your Oracle environment while actually reducing the cost of your storage architecture (that should make the Storage Admins happy, right?).