EMC Corp., provider of information infrastructure solutions, announced on Thursday new EMC Proven Solutions designed to help Oracle customers gain more efficiencies and cost savings from their IT investments. These new Proven Solutions utilize EMC fully automated storage tiering (FAST) software to increase IT efficiency for Oracle database environments by reining in infrastructure sprawl, and using EMC's storage virtualization, data deduplication, and archiving technologies to improve hardware utilization, conduct more cost-efficient backup and recovery, and reduce long term storage growth in production environments.