Data Management - The CIO's Guide to Oracle Products and Solutions - page 168

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The Oracle 12c Environment
Product Overview Features

Data
warehousing

Oracle Database 12c,
complete with in-database
advanced analytics,
introduces new
integration, performance,
scalability, and analytics
capabilities that support
data warehouses and big
data, providing a fast,
cost-effective platform for
data-warehousing and
business-intelligence
applications.

• Oracle Database Oracle Exadata
• Oracle Advanced Analytics
• Big Data
• Industry data models

Database
clouds

Oracle offers a broad
portfolio of software and
hardware products and
services to enable public
and private clouds.

• Private Database Cloud
• Oracle Database Cloud Services
• See Chapter 5

High
availability

With Oracle Database 12c
and Oracle's Maximum
Availability Architecture,
you can reduce downtime
costs by protecting your
business from all common
causes of planned and
unplanned downtime,
including human error.

• Provides HA (high availability)
features as part of Oracle's
Maximum Availability Architecture
• Enhances Oracle Real Application
Clusters and Oracle Active Data
Guard

Storage
management

Oracle Database
12c provides cost-effective
storage management by
automating processes,
minimizing costly I/O
operations, compressing
data, and maximizing the
utilization of tiered storage
resources for all your
enterprise databases.

• Oracle Automatic Storage
Management simplifies the
relationship between database and
storage to ensure the best I/O
performance for database
workloads while significantly
reducing storage costs and
complexity.

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