VMware vFabric ^TM Data Director

Improve agility and drastically reduce database TCO through database-aware virtualization and self-service lifecycle management with vFabric Data Director. Securely automate routine tasks, including database provisioning, high availability, backup, and cloning. Data Director is a unified platform for heterogeneous databases, currently supporting Oracle, SQL Server, VMware vFabric Postgres, and MySQL. Enjoy the agility of public cloud database and Hadoop services with enterprise-grade security, flexibility, control and compliance.

• Reduce hardware and database license costs through database-aware virtualization on VMware vSphere®
• Increase agility through automated database lifecycle management
• Accelerate application development through policy-based self-service