EMC has announced planned support for Oracle Database 11 g. As a Certified Advantage Partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork, EMC has been an active participant in the Oracle Database 11g Beta Programme.

Leveraging the long-standing active engineering relationship between EMC and Oracle, customers will be able to deploy Oracle Database 11 g across all of EMC's major platforms including EMC Symmetrix, EMC CLARiiON and EMC Celerra networked storage systems. EMC will continue to release new solutions based upon Oracle Database 11 g in support of the EMC Information Infrastructure for Oracle offerings.

"EMC customers like what they see in Oracle Database 11g and our investment in testing and qualification will enable them to deploy it seamlessly," said Chuck Hollis, VP, Technology Alliances, EMC.

According to Willie Hardie, vice president of Database Product Marketing at Oracle, "Working with EMC to perform interoperability testing of Oracle Database 11 g with EMC's networked storage platforms provides a unique level of validation for our customers deploying EMC Information Infrastructure for Oracle.”