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Over the last decade, managing database operations has become an increasingly challenging issue for enterprises of all sizes, but particularly within the enterprise. Not only has number of databases within organisations multiplied, but also the amount of information they contain is growing at rate of 50% annually.

The development of new applications and the drive to extract more business intelligence from data has translated into highly sophisticated and more mysterious infrastructures. These trends, coupled with availability requirements, regulatory concerns, and security needs have significantly increased the complexity of the database operations.

As a result, the already highly manual and error-prone process of managing database operations promises to get increasingly unmanageable and inefficient.  

To mitigate this complexity, many organisations are looking to automation and virtualisation solutions to manage:

• Lifecycle Management
• Database Administration
• Configuration Management
• Create New Databases/Cloning
• Capacity on Demand

These emerging technologies offer the promise of increasing efficiency and decreasing cost while adding entirely new functionality. Most virtualisation solutions, however, focus purely on hardware or operating system abstraction.

In today’s world, a huge piece of the puzzle in database management is dealing with issues such as provisioning new databases, managing patch levels across disparate environments, and cloning configurations to support development/QA activity.

The ability to virtualise resources and manage configurations across the database world is a critical part of a truly flexible infrastructure.