Databases White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This white paper contains a sampling of real business results that organizations around the world, in a variety of industries, have achieved by upgrading and standardizing on Oracle Database 11g.

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 | Published: 12 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper focuses on key Oracle Database 11g capabilities that help IT departments better optimize their storage infrastructure.

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 | Published: 12 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the challenges, solutions and importance of data management consolidation within an organization.

Posted: 13 Sep 2011 | Published: 13 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains the benefits of working with a services appoarch to data quality and how you can avoid errors within your data.

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 | Published: 09 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This document briefly covers key differences between IBM® WebSphere® Application Server and Oracle WebLogic Server. While both products are of high quality and will perform well even in demanding mission-critical environments, there are still some differences in their efficiency and resulting total cost of ownership.

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 | Published: 02 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Comparing DBA Productivity: An Oracle / DB2 Task Complexity Analysis - A must read, this study dives into six  common DBA administration task areas, showing quantitatively that DB2 offers simpler administration  and helps achieve time savings as compared to Oracle Database.

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 | Published: 30 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss how Vertica enhances the capabilities of analytical work through the implementation of different architecture for relational database-based analytical work. By simply rotating the orientation of the database from rows to columns, dramatic improvements in load and query speed, scalability and cost effectiveness are achieved.

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: It may be surprising to find that Zynga is performing some of the most advanced analytics anywhere. With a user base of over 250 million monthly active users, this white paper describes why Zynga uses the Vertica Analytics Platform to improve its business and game features.

Posted: 26 Aug 2011 | Published: 26 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn how to support your SQL Server instances and control your costs and administration requirements.

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 | Published: 24 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: How can you make the best use of big data?  Learn how with data virtualization you can easily access and integrate diverse sources and deliver value-added, agile data services. Read this paper to discover 5 commonsense best practices that point to data virtualization and how you can use big data to get ahead.

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 | Published: 15 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines how the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server allows companies to accelerate database performance, handle change and growth in scalable and incremental steps, and deliver mission-critical data availability and protection.

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 | Published: 30 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to get the top ten data management trends that will be important in 2011 and beyond. Leveraging these trends will enable you to make more insightful business decisions, reduce your IT costs and make your environment more responsive, available and scalable.

Posted: 31 May 2011 | Published: 31 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Dell strives to simplify IT in order to reduce complexity in data centers and has a broad storage product portfolio to meet database customers' needs. These storage selection guidelines will help administrators choose an appropriate storage technology based on their requirements.

Posted: 02 May 2011 | Published: 02 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: By using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as a data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 | Published: 30 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: The database warehouse DBMS market is evolving as needs change and demands for better, more efficent technology increase.  With the competition for the next big database warehouse becoming more and more intense, vendors are stepping up their own marketing efforts.  Because of this, it's important to know how to tell which system is right for you.

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 | Published: 25 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: The data warehouse DBMS market is undergoing a transformation, including many acquisitions, as vendors adapt data warehouses to support the modern business intelligence and analytic workload requirements of users. This document compares 16 vendors, including IBM & Netezza, to help customers find the right one for their needs.

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 | Published: 11 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Designed for organizations that run online transaction processing (OLTP) applications on distributed systems, IBM® DB2® pureScale™ offers clustering technology that helps deliver high availability and exceptional scalability transparent to applications.

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 | Published: 30 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: There is a great deal of discussion right now about advanced analytics, predictive analytics and in-database analytics. What are these? Read this white paper to find out!

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 | Published: 25 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of the current data quality problem and describes how IBM® InfoSphere® Information Server for IBM System z® can become your foundation for data qualitty and make a big difference in helping you derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across your systems. 

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses storage technology trends and why IBM storage systems are the smart choice for Oracle customers. Read to learn more. 

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how the synergy of DB2 and Power Systems can help businesses simplify deployment of Web applications, achieve cost-effective large-scale processing, construct a large-capacity messaging backbone and consolidate workloads-- all accelerating your time to value

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 18 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to take a look at Informix 11.7 and you’ll discover unprecedented advantages. With the introduction of Informix Flexible Grid, it’s easy to perform routine maintenance and upgrades at all your geographic locations from a single site—and you can do it with zero downtime. Read on to learn more about the advantages of Informix 11.7.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 18 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this case study and discover how NZ Bus, through local Oracle Certified Partner Database Integrated Solutions, became the first organization in New Zealand and one of the first in Asia-Pacific to deploy Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 | Published: 16 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: With IBM DB2 pureScale transparent application scaling, you can transparently add capacity to your network to handle fluctuations in demand without changing the application. pureScale technology also helps to deliver active-active high availability. Find out how these features work. 

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how Intel and IBM have been working for years to create systems that change the economics of x86 computing. One of the results of that collaboration is a platform for clustered, distributed systems that delivers unprecedented flexibility and scalability.

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 | Published: 23 Dec 2010