By Nimish Shelat, Product Marketing Manager – HP Cloud & Automation

Many companies have discovered that provisioning "ping, power and pipe” via internal clouds has only shifted bottlenecks up the stack into the application layers. To get the full benefit of cloud-based IT, data center automation must extend beyond the infrastructure layer to also include databases. Here’s why provisioning and manipulating discrete database services is key to supporting the rapid deployment and mass management of applications in the cloud.

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