Database Architectures

WEBCAST: Your users want real-time access to analytics and business intelligence (BI), but traditional architecture cannot keep pace. Most top companies to mitigating this by implementing SAP HANA and gaining unmatched performance and scalability. View this webcast to learn how to take those benefits one step further and enhance analytic capabilities.

Posted: 15 Oct 2012 | Premiered: Oct 15, 2012

WHITE PAPER: Take a few minutes to read this brief resource and discover why it might be time for a new DBMS in your organization. You'll learn three major changes that DBMS's have gone through, key reasons for changing out a DBMS, and the benefits your organization can yield from a switch.

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 | Published: 21 Sep 2012

EGUIDE: View this expert resource now to get the hardware purchasing guidance you need to virtualize your SQL Server environment. Also, find tips on tuning SQL Server performance (virtual or otherwise).

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 | Published: 01 Aug 2012

CASE STUDY: This case study explains how server, storage, and network integration can help to support a complex, highly available database environment. Find out how adopting this converged architecture helped one company eliminate downtime, lower latency, and avoid unnecessary spending.

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 | Published: 26 Jul 2012

EBOOK: Based on research gathered through a survey of 240 BI professionals, BI expert Wayne Eckerson presents his findings in this insightful e-book to let you know where the current market of BI technology stands. Read on to learn about different types of BI users and the capabilities they require, BI architectures and so much more.

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 | Published: 23 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: If data is the blood of your business, what is your database? How about the heart? This brief paper outlines one database from IBM. Read on to discover its security features, how it is people-friendly with self-healing capabilities for common database issues, details on its database configuration tools that can save administrators time, and more.

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 | Published: 18 Apr 2012

EBOOK: Check out the new Exadata e-book packed with the latest real-world examples, insights, and tips for IT professionals. This interactive e-book experience features customer success stories and video interviews, analyst commentary, a 3-D demo, and more.

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 | Published: 16 Jul 2012

EZINE: Are you going to upgrade to SQL Server 2012? This edition of SQL Server Insider sets out to help you decide whether the investment is worth it or not. Read this edition to learn if several IT pros are going to upgrade and why, how this release will affect the database marketplace and pros and cons of actually upgrading.

Posted: 25 May 2012 | Published: 24 May 2012

EGUIDE: Hypothetically, SQL Server virtualization will save you money and manpower. However, there are some risky components involved, and a few major scenarios in which SQL Server virtualization won't benefit you. Read this expert e-guide to learn if virtualizing SQL Server is a good idea for your organization and find tips on avoiding potential pitfalls.

Posted: 11 May 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012

TEST RESULTS: This white paper quantifies the benefits of leveraging virtualization to consolidate your database servers. Discover savings you can expect in hardware, maintenance, power, and cooling costs with this recommended architecture.

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 | Published: 01 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the unique requirements of OLTP workloads. Learn about a recommended hardware architecture and its key components that make it well suited for SQL environments.

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 | Published: 01 Mar 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Most IT pros know that legacy architecture falls short when it comes to big data, but few know how to optimize it without incurring huge costs. Review this transcript to learn about an innovative database that can give you back control of your data without raising costs.

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 | Published: 27 Sep 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Most businesses today are optimizing their legacy data architecture in order to effectively support growing data volumes. Read this transcript to learn about the strategy Sheetz Inc. implemented that enabled them to reduce data loading time from 5 hours to 20 minutes, effortlessly process billions of rows of data, and more.

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 | Published: 27 Sep 2012

WHITE PAPER: Check out this paper and discover how to deploy MongoDB onto Red Hat Enterprise 6.2. In addition to a step-by-step process for deployment, you'll also learn how to take advantage of features of the underlying system, several deployment scenarios for high performance database read and writes, and gain an in-depth look at MongoDB.

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn the advantages of column-based databases, and see if it's right for your organization. Some of the key findings include how column-based databases perform faster and require less maintenance, while also performing better with analytic applications.

Posted: 09 Aug 2012 | Published: 09 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes an integrated architecture that can help you maintain high application availability in the event of a database failure. Obtain an in-depth overview of this technology and tips for successful implementation here.

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 | Published: 05 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how to save on IT resources while supporting new and existing business applications with Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC)'s high availability and scalability.

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 | Published: 30 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Review this informative analysis of Oracle Database 11g Advanced Compression. Find out how Oracle technology enabled one Fortune 500 company to save on storage costs, improve overall performance, reduce the size of disk consumption by 50% for structured data and 98% for unstructured data, and much more.

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 | Published: 25 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Review this cost comparison study of Oracle Database 11g R2 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and uncover which technology came out on top. Find out which solution offered a 49% higher time savings, 46% more in complexity savings, and whose time savings amounted to saving $58,800 per year per database administrator.

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 | Published: 25 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: 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: 03 Jul 2012 | Published: 24 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Does a SQL Server database server virtualization initiative make sense for your growing business? Read this report to learn how virtualization impacted data center performance and total cost of ownership (TCO) in a test environment.

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 | Published: 31 Mar 2012

EBOOK: This e-book, penned by business intelligence expert Wayne Eckerson, will explain how big data -- the combination of Hadoop and analytical databases -- is transforming the business intelligence industry.

Posted: 01 Jun 2012 | Published: 01 Jun 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, join representatives from American Tire Distributors and EMC Corporation as they present the results they've achieved by virtualizing their Oracle environments.

Posted: 11 May 2012 | Published: 11 May 2012

WEBCAST: View this webcast to discover a high speed, highly scalable database management system designed for the intense loads of today's applications.

Posted: 03 May 2012 | Premiered: May 3, 2012

EGUIDE: Read this expert e-guide to find four tips for boosting SQL Server scalability as well as guidance on determining if solid state disk (SSD) storage is worth the cost for your SQL Server environment.

Posted: 01 May 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012