Database Architectures

DATA SHEET: View this data sheet to learn how the Oracle Exadata Database Machine delivers extreme performance for all types of database workloads including online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing (DW), and consolidation of mixed workloads.

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

DATA SHEET: Running high-performance OLTP, DW and mixed workloads using Oracle databases requires the right foundation of hardware, database servers, storage servers and network technology. View this data sheet to learn what to look for in each of these crucial components in order to optimize Oracle workload performance.

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: A recent IOUG survey discovered that while most organizations have a well-established data warehouse, acceptance within their companies is still limited. Inside this exclusive study, learn how companies can start taking more advantage of their data warehousing systems to successfully manage the growing amounts of "big data".

Posted: 26 Dec 2012 | Published: 26 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews Oracle GoldenGate's capabilities and how it can be used to achieve zero downtime migration and consolidation to Oracle Exadata.

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 | Published: 19 Dec 2012

VIDEO: If you're running mission-critical applications and processes on inefficient infrastructure, you could be at risk for major disruptions. Although the idea of updating hardware seems daunting, it doesn't have to be. Watch this video to discover an optimization strategy that can help you cut costs while improving reliability and productivity.

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 | Premiered: 13 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this reference guide that presents architectural concepts for deploying the cloud for your Oracle landscape. Discover the core characteristic and requirements for a successful cloud infrastructure and architecture design examples that support a variety of cloud objectives.

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 | Published: 13 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: The biggest challenge in IT today is how to master big data. If utilized properly, you can gain deeper insight into your business as a whole to foster better decision making, offer higher quality services, reduce costs, and more. Read on to learn how overcome the challenges of big data with ease.

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 | Published: 24 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: Big data is all most businesses today are talking about, but almost every organization is finding analytics to be their top big data problem. Financial service institutions (FSIs) in particular are struggling to efficiently analyze their exploding data volumes. Read on to learn 4 simple steps that can prepare FSIs for big data.

Posted: 13 Nov 2012 | Published: 31 Aug 2012

RESOURCE: IT is being pressured to do more with less as budgets and resources continue to shrink, but databases are being pushed to the max as data volumes skyrocket and data varieties evolve. In this interactive resource discover how Oracle Database 11g can help lower storage costs and reduce backup time. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 | Published: 05 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: Download this paper to discover how Oracle Database 11g Release 2's new options and features can help you reduce server and storage costs, improve query performance, and ensure availability during database application upgrades. Read on to discover how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with this database platform.

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 | Published: 30 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: Review this IDC report to get an in-depth look at the SAP-Sybase merger and the benefits this collaboration has brought both organizations. Also, gain insight on SAP HANA and where SAP is taking the innovative platform and discover what the analysts predict the future holds for SAP technologies.

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 | Published: 01 Nov 2012

CASE STUDY: Database management is becoming increasingly difficult as legacy architecture struggles to support growing data volumes. In this case study, find out how CallSource, a call tracking and recording software vendor, overcame their database performance and management challenges by implementing Oracle Database Appliance.

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 | Published: 30 Oct 2012

CASE STUDY: Review this case study and learn how Oracle Database 11g enabled British Telecommunications (BT) to alleviate its database infrastructure management challenges. Find out how leveraging Oracle helped BT reduce their server sprawl, deploy databases faster, and operate with 20% fewer DBAs.

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 | Published: 30 Oct 2012

VIDEO: Watch this comprehensive video to learn how Oracle Exadata can deliver extreme performance and unmatched scalability for all your database applications, including online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing, and mixed workloads.

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 | Premiered: 24 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: Big data presents modern enterprises with unique opportunities to enhance their business strategies, but most organizations don't have the tools needed to effectively utilize it. Read on to learn about the opportunities big data presents and find out how Oracle's Engineered Systems for data management can help you capitalize on big data.

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: The biggest challenge in IT today is how to master big data. If utilized properly, you can gain deeper insight into your business as a whole to foster better decision making, offer higher quality services, reduce costs, and more. Read on to learn how overcome the challenges of big data with ease.

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 | Published: 24 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: The options businesses today have to store, access, analyze and consume information for decision making have never been greater – but what capabilities will innovation bring to next-generation business intelligence (BI) tools? In this report BI expert Wayne Eckerson explains how the front end and back end of BI tools will be affected.

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how Oracle Database 11g can enable you to deliver information at a higher quality of service while efficiently using budgets and resources. Inside, find a variety of case studies that examine the benefits your peers have achieved by leveraging Oracle Database 11g.

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 | Published: 01 Jul 2011

WEBCAST: Download this webcast to learn the top 5 ways to improve database performance and scalability. Plus gain insight into innovative tools from Oracle that can accelerate performance for all workloads, provide unbeatable fault tolerance, performance, and scalability, and much more.

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 | Premiered: Oct 23, 2012

EGUIDE: In this SearchOracle.com expert e-guide, read a Q&A that dives into the topics covered at the annual summit held this January by the business intelligence (BI) special interest group within the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG), including  advanced Oracle analytics, connectors to Hadoop, the R statistical programming language, and big data.

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 | Published: 10 Jan 2013

WHITE PAPER: With the myriad of available database options, choosing the one that best supports your business-critical applications can be challenging – but it doesn't have to be. This exclusive resource examines three top database offerings -- Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server -- to determine which is best suited for SAP users.

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 | Published: 27 Sep 2011

EGUIDE: This e-guide from SearchCIO.com takes a look at one organization's quest to find the right database appliance that suited their needs. Read now for an in-depth analysis of current database appliance offerings, as well as relevant considerations for database security.

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 | Published: 14 Dec 2012

EGUIDE: In this expert guide, IT analyst Tony Iams, SVP, Ideas International, delves deeper into the scale up vs. scale out debate. Learn about the growing popularity of scaling out options, such as massively parallel processing (MPP) and distributed computing approaches.

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 | Published: 11 Dec 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Today's data warehouse architectures can be highly-complex, expensive to maintain and overburdened by the increasing demand for advanced analytical workloads. Review this presentation transcript to learn the importance of deploying database technology that can handle mixed, shifting, and high-concurrency workloads, and more.

Posted: 07 Dec 2012 | Published: 07 Dec 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Meeting the demands for instant access to business data is something most of IT today struggles with. Read this transcript to discover how one company overcame this challenge with an analytical database capable of analyzing large data sets and learn how it simplified their database admin and provided the real-time data access they needed.

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 | Published: 28 Nov 2012