By compressing data before it is stored, IBM’s Real-Time Compression was designed to considerably increase storage capacity and give end users an opportunity to optimize their existing storage footprints.

This white paper demonstrates how the Real-time Compression feature of the IBM Storwize V7000 can be used to reduce the storage capacity required for running an Oracle 11g database. It also explains the use of Real-time Compressed volumes with file systems as well as Oracle Automatic Storage Management disk groups for storing the Oracle data files, and the capacity saving it provides. Read now to learn more.