You need a powerful, flexible application infrastructure to meet your business objectives, and Oracle Database 11g delivers. This latest release of the world’s most popular database includes more than 400 features designed to help organizations take control of their enterprise information, gain better business insight, and quickly and confidently adapt to today’s ever-changing competitive environment. It extends Oracle's unique database clustering, data center automation and workload management capabilities to help organizations tackle their most demanding transaction processing, data warehousing and content management applications.

“Oracle Database 11g is a strategic technology for any organizations that depends upon a robust database platform. As a member of the Oracle Partner Network, FusionStorm is here to help you take advantage of Oracle Database 11g to reduce system management costs, while increasing performance, scalability, availability and security of your database applications,” said Steve Soper, Director, Enterprise Software Practice, FusionStorm.

Oracle Database 11g features advanced self-management and automation features to help organizations meet service level agreements, as well as significant new data partitioning and compression capabilities for more cost-effective Information Lifecycle Management and storage management. New options available for Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition including:

• Oracle Real Application Testing — Many organizations want to take advantage of database and operating system upgrades, and also make hardware and system changes to meet the needs of the business. Oracle Real Application Testing helps customers reduce the time, risk and cost of testing such changes in their IT environment, in a controlled, cost-effective manner.

• Oracle Advanced Compression — New compression capabilities for all types of data mean that compression ratios of 2x to 3x or more can now be achieved. Coupled with new partitioning capabilities, Oracle Advanced Compression can be used to deploy Information Lifecycle Management strategies in the database without application changes, further reducing overall storage requirements.

• Oracle Total Recall — Oracle Total Recall enables administrators to easily maintain historical archives of changed data for compliance and business intelligence. It provides a secure, efficient, easy-to-use and application-transparent solution for long-term access to changed data.

• Oracle Active Data Guard — Oracle Active Data Guard can be used to enhance the performance of production databases by offloading resource intensive operations such as queries and backups to a single physical standby database. As a result, the return on investment for a physical standby database is greatly increased as it can be used for both disaster protection and enhancing the overall quality of service of the production environment.

Beyond these new options, Oracle Database 11g also delivers a broad range of new features and enhancements to improve enterprise information management. It features improved file storage performance, increased security functionality, enhanced OLAP and data warehousing capabilities, and others.