You've been directed to cut costs-like every IT manager in this business climate-and you're looking for the smartest way to do it. But reducing costs is only half the challenge; the other half is doing it without cutting performance, reliability, scalability or IT's capacity to support your company's objectives. It may not be immediately obvious, but your enterprise database affects all those variables. Are database administration expenses a large part of your IT budget? All databases are not created equally in this regard. Is your storage infrastructure growing by leaps and bounds? The way your database handles data could be the culprit. Your database might even be layering additional time onto your developers' projects, depending on how easy-or difficult-it is for them to work with it.