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ORACLEWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO -- Oracle Corp., the world's largest enterprise software company, today announced that leading storage providers are working with Oracle to simplify storage management for customers and offer support for the new Oracle(R) Database 10g. Partners including EMC, HP, Hitachi, Network Appliance and XIOtech are working with Oracle on compatibility testing and best practices documentation to ensure interoperability between Oracle Database 10g and their grid storage management systems. Industry collaboration around grid computing will ease the management of grid technology for customers. For example, Oracle and its storage partners plan to identify opportunities to further enhance the benefits of storage management features built into Oracle Database 10g such as Automatic Storage Management (ASM). ASM will simplify the management of the Oracle Database 10g for storage, thereby allowing DBAs and storage administrators to become more productive by relieving them of manual storage administration and provisioning tasks. "With the release of Oracle Database 10g, we have enhanced the storage management functionality with our partners," said Roger Choplin, vice president, Data Storage Technologies. "Together we offer effective management of the grid infrastructure, making the benefits of grid technology faster and easier to achieve." Partner Support "The upcoming release of Oracle Database 10g will enhance the integration of grid computing and the storage infrastructure," said Ken Hendrickson, CEO of XIOtech. "Oracle 10g is the perfect match for Magnitude 3D's dimensional storage clustering architecture, delivering unmatched resilience, responsiveness, and scalability within the enterprise grid computing infrastructure." "For the past eight years, EMC and Oracle have shared a common vision of reducing complexity for our customers," says Don Swatik, vice president of Global Solutions at EMC Corporation. "EMC technology was used in the development of Oracle Database 10g and EMC engineers worked on-site with their counterparts at Oracle to ensure the highest levels of interoperability with its new features so thousands of our mutual customers can take advantage of unique functionality that only Oracle and EMC can deliver." "Enterprise grid computing customers require a unified storage infrastructure with the flexibility to connect their users to varying types of data and workloads seamlessly, with high availability and performance guarantees," said Phil Williams, vice president of solutions marketing at Network Appliance. "NetApp's open multi-protocol storage architecture provides Oracle 10g customers with a unique unified storage solution that delivers the data management, data protection, and disaster recovery capabilities they require."