1. Oracle Universal Content Management and Storage Systems
Vijay Ramanathan
Principal Product Manager

2. The following is intended to outline our general product direction
The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

3. UCM and Storage Systems Agenda
Business Case for File Store Provider
File Store Provider Functionality Overview
File System Store
Database Store
Content Lifecycle Management
Multiple File System-based stores with File Store Provider
Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM capabilities
Creating custom file stores with File Store Provider

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File Store Provider
Business Case

5. File Store Provider Goals
Allow customers to better manage files storage on disk (vault/weblayout)
Enable customers to leverage their investment in storage with UCM infrastructure
Enable customers to better coordinate their file store management with database management

6. File Store Provider Solution
Provider-based system will allow content to be distributed across devices based on business rules
File System Provider (built-in)
Control vault and web paths
Vault-only storage option
Distribute files across partitions
Oracle DB Provider (built-in)
Manage vault files in DB
Manage web files in DB
“Webless” storage option (w/ file system cache)
Custom Integrations with other Storage Management Systems

7. File Store Provider Benefits File System Provider Oracle DB Provider
Improved disk management
Improved application support
Oracle DB Provider
Single point of storage
Backup and Restore
Data compression & encryption
Storage management systems

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File Store Provider
Functionality Overview

9. File Store Provider Flexible Rule-based Storage Model
UCM
Round-robin distribution FS FS FS
UCM
Multiple Storage Locations FS FS FS
UCM
Different Storage Types FS DB

10. File Store Provider Flexible Rule-based Storage Model
Metadata driven storage
UCM
UCM
Document
Record
Document
Record
Items can be moved between stores by simply updating metadata!
Update metadata to make this Document a Record FS DB

11. File Store Provider Database StorageDB
Supports Oracle and other databases
Files stored as BLOBs in system database
Supports storage of all renditions
Vault, Web-viewable
Thumbnails and additional renditions
Oracle DB 11g
Supports normal BLOB storage
Supports new SecureFiles technology
Better performance than standard BLOBs

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File Store Provider
Content Lifecycle Management

13. File Store Provider Content Lifecycle Management
Options with File Store Provider
Multiple File System-based Stores
Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM Capabilities
Creating Custom File Stores

14. File Store Provider Content Lifecycle Management
Multiple File System-based Stores
UCM
Many low cost storage options can be mapped/mounted as FS locations
Fujitsu
NetApp
EMC
Use retention rules to move items from active store to inactive store FS FS
Normal FS for active items
Cheaper/slower disks for inactive items
Remember, items can be moved between stores by simply updating metadata!

15. File Store Provider Content Lifecycle Management
Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM Capabilities

16. File Store Provider Content Lifecycle Management
Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM Capabilities
UCM
Step 1
Define storage classes for different DB partitions
By Age
By ID
Etc. DB

17. File Store Provider Content Lifecycle Management
Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM Capabilities
UCM
Step 2
Define Storage Tiers DB
High Performance Tier
Smaller Disks
Storage Arrays
Fibre Channel Disks
High concurrent usage

18. File Store Provider Content Lifecycle Management
Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM Capabilities
UCM
Step 2
Define Storage Tiers DB
Low Cost Disk
Large capacity disks
Modular Arrays
ATA disks

19. File Store Provider Content Lifecycle Management
Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM Capabilities
UCM
Step 2
Define Storage Tiers DB
Historical Tier
Very large; read-only/read-mostly
Consider
Compression
RAID-5

20. File Store Provider Content Lifecycle Management
Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM Capabilities
UCM
Step 2
Define Storage Tiers
Assign partitions to storage tiers DB

21. File Store Provider Content Lifecycle Management
Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM Capabilities
UCM
Step 3
Define data migration policies
Migrate data between tiers
Can also define user access policies for different tiers DB

22. File Store Provider Content Lifecycle Management
Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM Capabilities
UCM
Step 4
Archive to tape if requried DB

23. File Store Provider Content Lifecycle Management
Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM Capabilities
UCM
Another Option
Create multiple DB stores with UCM
Assign different tables to different tiers
Move content between stores using retention rules DB DB DB

24. File Store Provider Content Lifecycle Management
Creating Custom File Stores
UCM FS DB
CAS
DVD
Other
Create custom interfaces to other storage systems
Custom provider for Content Addressable Storage systems
Custom provider for DVD or tape writers
Third-party apps or devices

25. File Store Provider
Empowers customers to efficiently manage the content store using business rules
Enables use of tiered storage to reduce storage costs
Supports use of Oracle 11g ILM capabilities
Flexible enough to integrate with 3rd party storage systems

26. Q
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