To make the right business decisions, your organisation requires the highest levels of availability and performance from your databases and applications.

HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite (SMS) enables your organisation to improve the availability, performance and manageability of your Oracle® Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) environments. Combining HP Serviceguard software with Veritas Storage Foundation technologies, SMS helps you protect your business-critical environments and enable application uptime.

With this solution, your organisation can:

• Obtain greater control of your online storage management
• Strengthen your data integrity
• Achieve service level objectives by reducing downtime
• Improve server resource utilisation
• Realise a better return on IT investment

• Decrease the time and effort spent on system administration by up to 75% (based on a 4-node cluster)
• Simplify cluster management
• Reduce human error

• Improve performance by up to a factor of 10 for Oracle 9i and 10g with the ease of file system manageability
• Map mission critical data to the highest performance storage using policy-based tiered storage automatically

• Increase performance for critical data
• Reduce storage cost

• Expand and manage your database on file systems that can grow to 32 TB

• Single point of contact for support, pre-integrated and quick-to-deploy solutions
• Compatibility with existing HP-UX 11i operating environments
• Experienced HP Services personnel who can help you implement the right solution for your business needs
• Extensive track record of helping companies improve their ability to support changing HP-UX business needs