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FAIR Health Selects Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance

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Wed Jan 16, 2013 8:00am EST 

  REDWOOD SHORES, CA, Jan 16 (Marketwire) -- 
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)

    News Facts


--  FAIR Health, an independent not-for-profit corporation dedicated to
    bringing transparency to healthcare costs and out-of-network
    reimbursement, has selected the Oracle Exadata Database Machine with a
    cluster of Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage 7420 appliances for backup to
    support its database of more than 15 billion claims. An additional Sun
    ZFS Storage Appliance supports remote disaster recovery and
    development.
--  FAIR Health's data are used by multiple stakeholders in health
    insurance, including insurance carriers, third party administrators,
    healthcare providers, employers, researchers and consumers to process
    claims, inform pricing models, offer cost transparency and to
    understand geographic variation in cost and utilization.
--  FAIR Health sought a solution to streamline performance and eliminate
    the storage bottlenecks in its existing environment.
--  With Oracle Exadata, FAIR Health tested its existing code and achieved
    significant performance improvements, including a 5x reduction in
    claims processing time(1) and a 10x faster average performance
    improvement in applying complex statistical methodologies(2).
--  Using Oracle Exadata's Hybrid Columnar Compression technology combined
    with the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, FAIR Health achieved an average of
    14x reduction in physical storage space for its primary Oracle
    Database storage, database backups, and disaster recovery site.
--  The Sun ZFS Storage Appliance's direct InfiniBand connection to the
    Oracle Exadata and its high-throughput design enables FAIR Health to
    reduce their backup windows and increase resources available for
    production workloads.
--  FAIR Health also uses the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance's snapshot and
    replication capabilities to replicate compressed data to a third
    remote Sun ZFS Storage Appliance at its disaster recovery location
    where clones of the Hybrid Columnar Compressed data are used to
    develop proof-of-concepts for new application functionality.
--  With the increased performance and capacity delivered by the Oracle
    Exadata and Sun ZFS Storage Appliance solution, FAIR Health will be
    able to reallocate resources to focus on product development and
    enhancement, including its expanded custom analytics capability.

    

Supporting Resources


--  FAIR Health
--  Oracle Exadata Database Machine
--  Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances
--  Oracle Hardware on Facebook, Twitter

    

Footnotes

(1) Oracle Exadata improvement on Upstate Health Research
Network Variance Analysis.
 (2) Oracle Exadata improvement in product
creation when applying statistical methodologies to the Healthcare Common
Procedure Coding System product.

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Contact Info

Michelle Jenkins
Oracle
+1.425.945.8306
michelle.jenkins@oracle.com

Drew Smith
Blanc & Otus
+1.415.856.5127
dsmith@blancandotus.com 

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