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Oracle Business AnalyticsFor S.H.I.E.L.D., threat assessment begins with daily input—massive amounts of structured and unstructured data, collected from tens of thousands of sources, processed in Oracle engineered systems, and stored intelligently. But while raw information ultimately holds the answers, that information requires analysis before S.H.I.E.L.D. can finalize situation reports and take action. S.H.I.E.L.D. relies on analytics and enterprise performance management from Oracle to discover new ways to strategize, optimize operations, and capture new opportunities for success. Through a custom analytics dashboard, S.H.I.E.L.D. gains insights into all aspects of the operation and can initiate actions that keep humankind safe from threats—terrestrial and extraterrestrial.
AT THE CENTER OF EXTREME DATA With extreme performance in mind, S.H.I.E.L.D. Chief Systems Administrator John Smith assembled an integrated private cloud on a foundation of Oracle engineered systems and business analytics software. Individually, each system component delivers extreme performance. Together, the systems support even more information for deeper analysis and some of the most important decisions in the history of humankind.
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StorageWith international jurisdiction comes an international volume of data, all of which needs to be securely stored, backed up, and archived. S.H.I.E.L.D. depends on Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage for hot backup and network-attached storage (NAS), Pillar Axiom for storage-area network (SAN) storage, and StorageTek tape libraries and drives for backup and archiving. Storage includes• Sun ZFS Storage 7420
appliance• Pillar Axiom 600
StorageTek SL8500 modular library system
With international jurisdiction comes an international volume of data, all of which needs to be securely stored, backed up, and archived. S.H.I.E.L.D. depends on Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage for hot backup and network-attached storage
storage-area network (SAN)
tape libraries and drives for backup and archiving. Storage
Sun ZFS Storage 7420 Sun ZFS Storage 7420
Exalogic Elastic Cloud X2-2Engineered for cloud computing, Oracle Exalogic hardware and software are tuned for Java application performance. S.H.I.E.L.D. agents use Oracle Exalogic to run S.H.I.E.L.D.’s day-to-day operations, enter mission and status reports, and run classified applications.
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Exadata Database Machine X2-8Oracle Exadata provides S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and analysts with extreme database performance for both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP) applications.
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Oracle Big Data ApplianceEvery day, S.H.I.E.L.D. captures terabytes of information from a variety of sources—surveillance video, satellites, sensors, field reports, network traffic—and all of this high-volume, high-velocity, and high-variety data is processed, filtered, transformed, and sorted in Oracle Big Data Appliance.
Exalytics In-Memory Machine X2-4When assessing threats, S.H.I.E.L.D. must quickly draw actionable insights from massive amounts of data. Oracle Exalytics’ advanced data visualization and exploration get the job done.
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