Database Architectures Reports

EGUIDE: This expert guide will help you learn more about the trends, and pros and cons associated with third-party tools for Oracle. You’ll also review tools from specific third-party vendors.

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 | Published: 09 Aug 2013

WHITE PAPER: Access to mission-critical applications is more important than ever before. Fortunately, the latest version of SQL Server offers a whole host of availability enhancements that make this critical objective easier to meet. This white paper elaborates on these new capabilities and describes the key architectural components required to enable them.

Posted: 02 Aug 2013 | Published: 01 Feb 2013

WHITE PAPER: Many savvy organizations searching for the right out-of-the-box technology offerings are turning to Oracle in an effort to remain competitive. Access this informative resource to find an in-depth technical overview of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server.

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this document is to present an overview on the kdb+ workflow and to understand the suitability of Isilon scale-out NAS platform as the storage platform of choice for these workflows.

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 | Published: 31 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: Explore this solution brief to learn about a rack server series that offers standalone and integrated hardware configurations for cost-effective, scalable hardware options for your SQL Servers. Learn more about the unique benefits this hardware can provide your Microsoft environment.

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 | Published: 24 Apr 2013

DATA SHEET: This datasheet introduces a new platform that has the features you need to improve database security & monitoring, enterprise software integration, and much more. Read on to see if this tool can help you realize business success.

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 | Published: 19 Apr 2013

VIDEO: This brief video discusses the latest Oracle cloud offerings. Discover the features and benefits of these innovative solutions that can enhance your social, CRM and database services while reducing costs and improving efficiency.

Posted: 15 Apr 2013 | Premiered: 15 Apr 2013

EGUIDE: In this E-Guide, discover what the experts are saying about database consolidation for Oracle -- how not to lose functionality, why to consolidate, and some best practices therein. Also included is an in-depth discussion of session schema management, as part of a series on Oracle database consolidation.

Posted: 18 Mar 2013 | Published: 18 Mar 2013

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

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: 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