Optimizing and Protecting Storage with Oracle Database 11g Release 2

Every organization today must provide fast access to vast amounts of enterprise information for their customers, partners and business users. New, rich applications that combine relational data with XML, spatial information, documents and images increase the amount of information to be managed throughout the enterprise. Integration between applications can lead to widespread information replication, and development and testing operations regularly copy information across many different systems. The net result is that organizations are undergoing an information explosion, and are placing continual pressure on their IT departments to: . Manage storage more efficiently: Distributed storage silos significantly limit information sharing and provisioning across information management systems. . Optimize performance: Storage has become a barrier that prevents users from getting quick access to the information they need in order to be successful in their jobs. . Reduce storage costs: Even while storage prices drop year after year, organizations are under constant pressure to reduce their continually increasing storage costs. . Mitigate the risk of information loss. Enterprise information must be efficiently protected from loss or inadvertent destruction. This document focuses on key Oracle Database 11g capabilities that help IT departments better optimize their storage infrastructure, enabling administrators to deliver a cost effective, scalable information management platform that is easy to manage, and that continues to deliver the performance and availability that today's businesses require.