The document discusses EMC and Oracle's long-standing partnership in developing solutions to optimize Oracle applications. It outlines three common deployment models for Oracle (aggregation, verticalized, virtualization) and describes the benefits of virtualizing Oracle software, such as 3x higher performance with lower total cost of ownership. It also introduces EMC solutions like Vblock infrastructure platforms, FAST automated storage tiering, and VFCache server flash caching that help address challenges of Oracle I/O performance and optimize storage for virtualized Oracle environments.