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HOPKINTON, MA -- Once again demonstrating the depth of its software expertise, EMC Corporation today extended the reach of its market-leading EMC ControlCenter(TM) Database Tuner performance management software. The enhancements include support for EMC CLARiiON(R) storage systems in Oracle database environments, and the addition of IBM DB2 UDB support for EMC Symmetrix(R) Enterprise Storage systems. Database Tuner now addresses more than 60 percent of the entire database market. EMC Database Tuner is the only performance management tool that enables administrators to automatically monitor and proactively configure, control and fine-tune three critical elements of the information infrastructure: databases, host operating system, and EMC Symmetrix or CLARiiON systems. Database Tuner automatically collects, correlates and presents database mapping and performance information that can be customized for use by database administrators, system administrators and storage managers. Conventional solutions require multiple software applications and manual consolidation and comparison of these data. With Database Tuner, users can better employ IT resources by optimizing Symmetrix and CLARiiON performance across key database applications. By creating a dynamic view of enterprise information assets that can be shared locally or over the Internet by IT managers from various disciplines, Database Tuner enables businesses to run more efficiently. According to Carolyn DiCenzo, chief analyst at Gartner Dataquest, "Virtually all IT organizations face a common challenge: working together cross-functionally to efficiently isolate the source of resource-consuming bottlenecks and rapidly take action to locate and relieve the bottlenecks before they negatively affect the business. In an era of corporate belt-tightening, ever-expanding storage requirements, more demanding service-level goals and a shortage of qualified IT managers, tools that address these issues are becoming ever-more important to IT managers." "Virtually all mission-critical applications, such as ERP, CRM, OLTP, e-business and data warehousing, are deployed on a relational database such as DB2 UDB or Oracle," said Chuck Hollis, EMC Vice President of Markets and Products. "By efficiently enabling database, system and storage administrators to improve the performance of Oracle and IBM database applications, Database Tuner helps raise the return on investment of not only the database applications, but also customers' host platforms and EMC storage systems at the same time." Database Tuner is a component of EMC ControlCenter, the industry's most comprehensive family of software for managing enterprise information infrastructures, or E-Infostructures. With the introduction of Database Tuner support for the CLARiiON family of storage systems, the software also becomes the latest addition to the Navisphere(R) suite of CLARiiON-based management software tools. For more information visit www.EMC.com