December 17, 2009 - (Free Research) This informative white paper explains how the new Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node offers enhanced high availability for single-instance databases, protecting from both planned and unplanned downtime.
August 05, 2010 - (Free Research) Recent reports expose the monumental growth rate of data volumes. With increasing data volumes comes a need for computational power to absorb and analyze all this data in an attempt to gain a competitive edge. This paper attempts to shed some light on the decision process for selecting a specialty analytic server in today's business environments.
February 24, 2010 - (Free Research) There has been great interest in the subject of Windows 7 in recent months, perhaps most strongly from organizations that passed over Windows Vista and are looking at a migration from Windows XP.
November 01, 2008 - (Free Research) This white paper documents the performance of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse solutions deployed on Dell PowerEdge servers with Dell PowerVault storage. Using the knowledge gained through joint development this white paper illustrates the cost-effective performance of Dell Solutions for SQL Server 2008.
May 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses five rules for negotiating that can help make the transaction more pleasant for everyone involved and better your chances at getting what you want.
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.
August 2010 - (Free Research) Struggling to set up application access to your DB2 database? Get detailed, technical advice for IBM DB2 access, data integration, middleware, data replication and more! Written by DB2 experts, this paper provides details on Change Data Capture (CDC), Microsoft Clusters, .NET application access for DB2 designers, developers and IT.
August 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses how Real Application Testing — with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 — allows businesses to quickly adopt new technologies while eliminating the risks associated with change.
August 2009 - (Free Research) In this white paper, we will look at some of the key changes that will be revealed with the new version of Exchange and how these changes will impact the messaging environment.
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.
March 2010 - (Free Research) Managing the persistent state of complex object graphs, empowering agile developers to work more efficiently. Designed for massive scale transactional systems and eliminating processing-intensive O/R mapping layers.
March 2009 - (Free Research) This paper provides a survey of the practices and technology related to business process management (BPM). Basic concepts are explained, the transformational effect on the enterprise is examined, and the value that BPM can create is analyzed. The paper then presents a survey of the vast array of technology that is related to BPM.
September 2009 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn more about how Oracle Advanced Compression can help you reduce the disk space and costs of managing large data volumes.
April 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper provides an overview for deploying SQL Server in a virtualized environment for VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4 (U4) running on the latest PowerEdge M610 and M710 blade servers and EqualLogic PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Direct marketing is about communicating a message to a specific prospect or customer. This white paper from Business Objects, an SAP company, focuses on these concepts as they pertain to marketing, and particularly as they are supported by data quality functions inside of the broader EIM framework.
August 2010 - (Free Research) Video is leaving the dedicated video conference room and becoming a standard communication tool and part of the individual's daily workflow. In turn, this trend is having a profound impact on the scalability requirements of the visual communication system.
March 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper introduces IP storage technologies and the platform benefits for Oracle running on consolidated IP storage over NFS. It also reviews the features of Oracle 11g Direct NFS and summarizes the business and performance benefits observed after extensive lab testing on EMC® Celerra® network-attached storage (NAS).
April 2010 - (Free Research) Read this paper for a description of the benefits and performance of the latest Dell™ PowerEdge™ R810 running Microsoft® SQL Server® in VMware® vSphere™ 4.0 Update 1 (U1) and EqualLogic™ PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays.
June 2007 - (Free Research) This paper covers projects involving new construction or upgrades to the data center’s physical infrastructure - the power, cooling, and other physical systems that house and protect the data center’s IT equipment.
August 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper explores the need for uptime, explains the three components that contribute to uptime, reviews some of the problems with existing enterprise server management, provides a clear definition of clustering, and finally gives an honest explanation of what it can and can’t offer your organization.
May 2009 - (Free Research) IBM Rational® software has helped thousands of companies worldwide improve their agility with software best practices, tools and services. IBM understands that a single-size solution does not fit all. Read this paper to learn more.
March 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper describes the benefits of using Navisphere® Quality of Service (QoS) Manager on EMC® Celerra® Unified Storage Platforms in a VMware ESX environment.