June 15, 2010 - (Free Research) This report documents the extent of the cost savings opportunity if DB2 9.7 is employed. The findings are based on the combined five year costs for databases, storage systems, database servers and supporting personnel, calculated for use of Oracle 10g and DB2 9.7 in large-scale SAP Business Suite 7 installations in three companies.
November 02, 2009 - (Free Research) This document focuses on key Oracle Database 11g capabilities that help IT departments better optimize their storage infrastructure, enabling administrators to deliver a cost effective, scalable information management platform that is easy to manage, and that continues to deliver the performance and availability that today's businesses require.
September 25, 2009 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn about a unique data protection and recovery solution that provides the management, monitoring, and automation software to create synchronized standby databases that protect data from failures and other disasters.
January 2008 - (Free Research) Download this Forrester commissioned case study and learn how a global F500 company simplified database monitoring for SOX and generated a 239% ROI and 5.9 months payback without impacting performance or requiring changes to their IT infrastructure.
March 2010 - (Free Research) This paper compares two SMB networking strategies: peer-to-peer and server-based. While peer-to-peer networks are simple, they are out-performed by server-based networks that optimize performance and availability.
June 2010 - (Free Research) Xiotech's Emprise 5000 system is a revolutionary concept in data storage. It is built on patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) technology and provides a perfectly balanced building block of performance, reliability, and scalability that delivers the lowest total cost of ownership of any SAN or SAN-like storage system on the market.
April 2010 - (Free Research) Once your hypervisor is installed, what's next? You need to implement virtualization that's actually going to benefit your organization. Read in Chapter Two about how to get the most out of your hardware investment.
March 2010 - (Free Research) The value of data center virtualization continues to grow. This white paper discusses the features and benefits of the Intel Xeon 7500 series processor combined with Dell PowerEdge servers and VMware® vSphere™.
September 2009 - (Free Research) Increased adoption of VMware infrastructure and continued performance advances in hardware and software have driven the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. This paper will detail experiments that demonstrate the efficient performance and scalability of Exchange when running inside a virtual machine on a VMware vSphere™ 4 environment.
April 2010 - (Free Research) This first in a three-part series details some of the basic things small business users should consider in choosing a server system to fit their business needs.
August 2010 - (Free Research) Growing your business at "Internet speed" means scaling your web application according to business and market requirements. The unique value proposition of Cloud Computing creates new opportunities to align IT and business goals. Read this white paper to learn more.
July 2010 - (Free Research) This paper details the compelling benefits created by improving the efficiency and performance of the “Technical Enterprise” with a Scale-out NAS storage infrastructure. Scale-out NAS enhances the traditional file server to provide an unlimited ability to scale capacity and performance across the organization.
August 2010 - (Free Research) As the demand for information access has increased exponentially over the past decade to meet the growth of the Internet as whole, including e-commerce and commercial databases, the demand placed on datacenters has intensified. Read this paper to find out more.
March 2010 - (Free Research) This paper compares traditional data protection options and provides an overview of the impact data deduplication is having on the storage industry. Deduplication is quickly gaining momentum in the growing disk-to-disk backup market and offers several significant improvements over traditional data protection methods.
August 2010 - (Free Research) Data storage that is simple to setup, use and manage, easily expandable, and cost-effective vs traditional alternatives only available in enterprise storage.
June 2010 - (Free Research) This podcast provides an overview of strategies for improving storage efficiency. Gain insight into how these approaches can reduce infrastructure costs while increasing resource utilization.
August 2010 - (Free Research) The issue of data protection is now paramount, and awareness of the issue has moved well up the food chain to the executive ranks. However traditional back up technologies are no longer ideal to meet today’s 24/365 business requirements. Read this white paper to learn how to stop doing backup.
August 2009 - (Free Research) The purpose of this white paper is to describe the benefits of a clustered architecture in comparison with traditional controller-based architectures, and to discuss the technology that makes HP LeftHand SANs better by design.
September 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper reviews the common causes of application downtime and discusses Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture framework that provides clear and concise guidance on implementing best practices using Oracle's proven high availability technologies.
September 2009 - (Free Research) This data sheet highlights the features and benefits of the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server, a storage product highly optimized for use with Oracle Database.
February 2010 - (Free Research) With Informix, you can count on hassle-free, low-cost data management and focus your resources on work that creates value for your business. Read this e-book to learn more.
August 2010 - (Free Research) With more data to back up and more data to move for disaster recovery, virtualized environments are challenging traditional data protection infrastructures and processes. EMC backup and recovery solutions—with advanced deduplication technology in software and backup storage systems—provide tremendous data protection cost savings.