ORACLE Corporation has announced the availability of its latest ZFS Storage Appliances, the ZS3 Series, These next-generation 'application-engineered' storage appliances "can significantly improve operational efficiencies and increase business application performance at a much lower price," claimed Oracle's Asean storage products director Leong Kam Hong (pic). In Malaysia, two models are being rolled out: The ZS3-2 and ZS3-4, to cater to both midrange and high-end storage demands, the company said in a statement after a recent media briefing in Kuala Lumpur. "The Oracle ZS3 is an application-aware storage system. It offers dynamic automation that can help reduce the time spent on tuning database and storage for optimal performance," Leong said. "[It] is also designed to thrive in highly virtualised environments," he added.