Oracle ASM and NetApp: Simplified Database Management, Performance, and Protection

Nowadays DataBase Administrator (DBA) is struggling to manage ever-expanding databases that consume more storage, generate more transactions and include new data types. Datasets continue to grow dramatically, applications are becoming more distributed, and customers and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are intolerant of data loss or performance degradation. Time available for database backup, recovery, and cloning operations continues to shrink, and the luxury of monitoring database performance, identifying hot spots, and manually tuning is a thing of the past.