For Immediate Release:
Contact: Jill Hellman, Director Media Relations
jill.hellman@miroconsulting.com
201.242.1833

Alliance to Provide Customers with Industry’s Most Comprehensive Oracle Database Management Solutions and Services, Resulting in Greater Control  and Significant Cost Savings for Oracle Customers

New York, New York (May 24, 2006)
GridApp Systems, Inc. (www.gridapp.com), the leading provider of database automation solutions, today announced a partnership with Miro Consulting, Inc., the recognized leader in restructuring, negotiating, and managing Oracle software assets including database products, applications, and toolsets. Together, the companies will provide customers with a comprehensive package of software and services to ensure efficient and effective use of the Oracle environment combined with licensing compliance and cost savings. Under the terms of the agreement, GridApp will promote Miro Consulting’s Oracle asset management and cost containment services, and Miro will market GridApp’s Clarity database automation software.

Oracle has built a reputation on providing customers with the most flexible and highly available database applications available. But an Oracle infrastructure requires highly specialized knowledge and clear insight across the database landscape to ensure and monitor license compliance efficiently.  The combination of GridApp software and Miro Consulting provides customers with a simple, all encompassing solution to ensure compliance simply and affordably, as well as provide significant savings in overall licensing costs. 

“GridApp and Miro share a joint vision of making the deployment and management of Oracle databases as efficient and secure as possible,” said Ken Saloway, Vice President and CIO of Miro Consulting.  “Our work together will be of tremendous value to companies who are demanding a more efficient way to manage their mission-critical Oracle infrastructure while maintaining compliance and reducing costs.”

As experts in Oracle licensing rules & regulations and cost containment, Miro provides clients with independent advisory services in the management and procurement of Oracle software assets.  Since 2000, Miro has logged over 51,568 hours experience negotiating Oracle software contracts, saving its clients over $41 million in Oracle licensing and license support cost and overseeing more than $417 million in Oracle transactions.

GridApp’s Clarity™ software is the first solution to focus exclusively on simplifying and automating time-consuming database operations while offering a much-needed single view across heterogeneous database platforms. GridApp Clarity complements general-purpose data center automation software, providing a best practices approach to cross-platform database management using specialized automation processes for configuration management, patch management, auditing/compliance, replication and encryption.  As a result, Clarity enables customers to easily ensure and monitor Oracle licensing compliance on an ongoing basis, in addition to providing greater control over their heterogeneous database infrastructure.

“We’re very excited to welcome Miro Consulting into our growing partner network,” said David Maples, VP of Business Development at GridApp Systems.  “Oracle database applications, particularly Oracle 9i RAC and 10g RAC, are powerful and complex, requiring a broad skill-base to deploy. Miro’s services complement the Clarity software perfectly, providing our customers with an unbeatable, all-encompassing Oracle licensing deployment and management solution.”

About The GridApp Partner Program

GridApp’s Partner Program bonds a select group of companies with the common goal of improving and simplifying database systems management through innovative products and services.For more information, please visit: http://www.gridapp.com/about/partners.php.

About Miro Consulting, Inc.
New Jersey based Miro Consulting (www.miroconsulting.com) specializes in helping clients to negotiate Oracle licensing and consulting contracts, and to renegotiate existing ones, helping to significantly lower the cost of Oracle ownership for over 200 organizations located primarily throughout North America, including many represented within the Fortune 500. Founded in August 2000, Miro is privately held. NJBIZ magazine recently ranked Miro Consulting one of New Jersey’s 50 Fastest Growing Companies.

About GridApp Systems

GridApp Systems is a leader in database automation and management. Its Clarity™ software and D2500 database appliance provide companies with the ability to simplify and manage critical database operational tasks such as deployment, patch management, auditing, encryption and replication across the enterprise.  The company is privately held and headquartered in New York City. For more information, visit www.gridapp.com.

Contact:

Jeff Pecor, Barokas Public Relations, 206-264-8220, jeff@barokas.com 

Shonna Keogan, GridApp Systems, 646-452-4055, skeogan@gridapp.com

Jill Hellman, Director Media Relations, 201.242.1833
jill.hellman@miroconsulting.com

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