While all these basic and advanced capabilities constitute an impressive and more-than-competitive storage system, the “Oracle application engineered” functions are worthy of special note. These “better together” technologies are what Oracle promised after its various acquisitions (especially Sun and Pillar on the storage hardware side) and they can provide significant operational and financial value to Oracle software users. In simple terms, they are possible because the Oracle database and applications are Oracle-storage-aware, and vice versa. While each is a specific capability, they are all part of a fully automated database-to-storage tuning and compression capability: