Redwood City, Calif., Sept. 29, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA), the world's number one independent provider of data integration software, today announced that Informatica PowerCenter v. 9.6.1 and Data Quality v. 9.6.1 have achieved Oracle Exadata Optimized and Oracle SuperCluster Optimized status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). As a high-speed on-ramp for data into Oracle Exadata and Oracle SuperCluster, PowerCenter and Data Quality can deliver up-to-five times faster performance on data load, query and profiling tasks.
Customers adopting Oracle Engineered Systems for high-volume, high-speed analytics can utilize Informatica PowerCenter and Data Quality to ingest, cleanse and transform various types of data into Oracle Exadata and Oracle SuperCluster with the extreme performance and high scalability required to maximize the value of their engineered systems investment.
In addition, later this year, Informatica PowerCenter and Data Quality will leverage the multi-tenancy and in-memory capabilities of Oracle Database 12c for high-performance scenarios. PowerExchange for Relational Databases is now certified by Informatica for Oracle Database 12c with Multitenant and also will support Oracle In-Memory sources and targets later this year.
Informatica will showcase these powerful solutions at Oracle OpenWorld, Booth #3512, Sept. 29 through Oct. 2 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
The combination of Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica Data Quality with Oracle Exadata or Oracle SuperCluster enables organizations to:
· Move higher volumes of trusted data into Oracle Exadata and Oracle SuperCluster more quickly to support more timely reporting with up-to-date information [3x to 5x performance improvement in data load operations and 5x reduction in query execution time (1TB dataset)]¹
· More easily and economically manage large-scale analytic data warehousing environments by consolidating a multitude of servers on one rack
· Leverage existing code/programming skills to execute high-performance data integration directly on Oracle Exadata or Oracle SuperCluster, perform push down optimization on Oracle Exadata or Oracle SuperCluster
· Utilize out-of-the-box Informatica connectivity to easily access hundreds of data sources, including all the major databases, on-premise and cloud applications, mainframes, social data and Hadoop
¹ Informatica PowerCenter v. 9.6.1, Data Integration v. 9.6.1, and Data Quality v. 9.6.1 tested with ¼ rack Oracle Exadata X2-3, Intel Xeon E5-2690 Processors 2.9GHz, (128 cores in total) versus a commodity x86 server, 64 cores, 96GB RAM, 50TB storage.
Todd Goldman, vice president and general manager of Data Integration and Data Quality, Informatica, said, "Oracle Exadata and Oracle SuperCluster offer the pinnacle of performance, availability and scalability for running Oracle Database, and Informatica is proud to have achieved Oracle Exadata Optimized and Oracle SuperCluster Optimized status. Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica Data Quality, together with Oracle Exadata or Oracle SuperCluster can provide a best-of-breed combination of software and hardware optimized to deliver extreme performance to drive agile reporting and analytics, while empowering IT organizations to meet service-level agreements and quality goals like never before."
Steve Biondi, group vice president, Worldwide Alliances and Channels, ISV and OEM Sales, Oracle, said, "Oracle Exastack Optimized recognizes partners who have optimized their solutions on a complete, integrated and cloud-ready infrastructure in order to help them accelerate innovation, unlock new features and functionality, and deliver superior value to users. By achieving Oracle Exadata Optimized and Oracle SuperCluster Optimized status, Informatica has demonstrated Informatica PowerCenter and Data Quality are tested and tuned to work with Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle SuperCluster to help deliver optimum performance, scalability, and reliability to their customers."
Availability
Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica Data Quality for Oracle Exadata and Oracle SuperCluster are available now.
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About Informatica
Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA) is the world's number one independent provider of software. Organizations around the world rely on Informatica to realize their information potential and drive top business imperatives. Informatica Vibe, the industry's first and only embeddable virtual data machine (VDM), powers the unique "Map Once. Deploy Anywhere." capabilities of the Informatica Platform. Worldwide, over 5,000 enterprises depend on Informatica to fully leverage their information assets from devices to mobile to social to big data residing on-premise, in the Cloud and across social networks. For more information, call +1 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-3871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com. Connect with Informatica at http://www.facebook.com/InformaticaCorporation, http://www.linkedin.com/company/informatica and http://twitter.com/InformaticaCorp.
About the Oracle Exastack Program
The Oracle Exastack program helps enable Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and other members of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) to rapidly build and deliver faster, more reliable applications. Leveraging the Oracle Exastack program, qualifying OPN members have access to Oracle performance experts and dedicated labs for testing and tuning their applications on Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, Oracle SuperCluster, Oracle Database Appliance and Oracle Big Data Appliance. Customers can be confident when selecting Oracle Exastack Optimized applications that they are supported and have been tested and tuned with the goal to achieve optimal performance, scalability and reliability. Also part of the program, Oracle Exastack Ready is dedicated to helping ISVs run their solutions on the latest major release of Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, Oracle SuperCluster, Oracle Database Appliance, Oracle Big Data Appliance and their component products, including Oracle Database, Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux and Oracle VM. These products provide partners with a low-cost and high-performance infrastructure for database and application workloads across on-premise and cloud-based environments. With an Oracle Exastack Optimized or Oracle Exastack Ready status achievement, partners will receive access to corresponding Oracle branding, logos and related benefits to effectively differentiate their offerings. To find out more, visit http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/exastack
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