Database Management

WHITE PAPER: This guidebook provides the answers with a series of detailed sections including essential activities such as planning, forecasting, risk management, team selection, communication and collaboration.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Today’s data centers and cloud computing environments require increased I/O performance to support large-scale applications such as databases, web servers, e-commerce applications, file servers, and email. This whitepaper focuses on the performance benefits of using the Adaptec MaxIQ™ SSD Cache Performance Solution.

Posted: 02 Nov 2009 | Published: 02 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array's innovative architectures and technologies, as well as storage deployment considerations, that bring tremendous business benefit to performance-hungry database applications.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

PRESENTATION: This collection of slides from the Information Security Decisions Conference presents a practical 5 step plan toward achieving greater standards of database security and compliance. These steps consist of discovering, securing, monitoring, protecting and managing your databases. Download the slides to learn more.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This article provides real-life cases of how the software industry is delivering breakthrough solutions as they tap into the Intel Xeon processor 5500’s full capabilities. Learn how smart software combined with smart hardware saves time, money, and energy.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of DMExpress on their organizations. Forrester’s aim is to clearly show all calculations and assumptions used in the analysis.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

EBOOK: How can you develop the optimal hardware strategy for maximum performance of your SAP environment? This eBook includes tips and insight from server, storage, virtualization and SAP software pros that will help you get the most out of your SAP enterprise software.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

WEBCAST: Most organizations have database discovery and maintenance plans, but surprisingly lack a database security plan. A piecemeal approach to securing the database is costly, inefficient, and creates gaps in protection and regulatory issues. View this webcast for tips from Forrester on how to design a comprehensive database security plan.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 23 Oct 2009

EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE: Many of today's businesses rely on Unix for their highest workloads, limiting their ability to execute effective transaction processing. In this expert E-Guide you will discover how Linux can be used to perform high transaction rates at a low cost. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Informational applications have become one of the most critical areas of IT activity. How will these challenges be met? This report examines an option -– use of IBM DB2 9.7 as an alternative to Oracle 11g -– that represents a major new opportunity for organizations to meet escalating demand while reducing IT costs.

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009

VIDEO: Oracle Exadata provides the reliability, scalability, and extreme performance that database customers have been demanding in today's difficult business environment. Watch this video and learn about the exponential increases in data delivery speeds and system response times that Oracle Exadata provides.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 19 Oct 2009

DATA SHEET: This data sheet highlights the features and benefits of the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server, a storage product highly optimized for use with Oracle Database.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

SOFTWARE DEMO: The IBM DB2 ROI tool has been designed for developers, database administrators and senior IT management personnel alike, to help them perform a clinical analysis of the cost savings gained from the Storage Optimization feature of DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

VIDEOCAST: Whether you have experience in administering DB2 on the mainframe or Oracle database, you probably have the skills to get started with DB2 for Linux Unix and Windows. Hear from your peers about their recent experiences.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 19 Oct 2009

ANALYST REPORT: Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) represents a technology that is too significant to compromise or to try to blend into a more general product line. That is why IBM decided to boost investment in IDS development and promote it as a premier relational database management system (RDBMS) for high-volume transaction applications.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

WEBCAST: Is data management costing you too much money? Join us for a webcast where two IBM DB2 customers will discuss proven strategies that they have incorporated into their IT operations that have resulted in lowering their overall database costs.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 19 Oct 2009

EBOOK: Applications, services and processes continue to proliferate, and there is never enough staff on hand. Database Administrators have to find more ways to work smarter and not harder. This e-book highlights five tips to help DBAs build new levels of efficiency and productivity.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Many companies are considering Oracle R12 to help them thrive in the global business environment. But upgrading can affect the organization as a whole as well as processes and underlying technologies. To help you avoid costs and delays and take full advantage of the software, AT&T experts outline key steps for assessing your upgrade readiness.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

EBOOK: This e-book from IBM discusses three solutions that can help you deal with data growth, optimize your resources for the best possible throughput, and increase overall application and database performance.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: Read this case study to see how FCBT used Robot/ SCHEDULE to connect and coordinate their job scheduling needs across multiple systems.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: When developing a security strategy, it is critical for businesses to consider their System i platform in order to protect themselves from data breaches. In this presentation transcript, learn how to control network access on System i and protect your organization from data loss.

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 | Published: 16 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: For processing data for BI analytics and other applications, the usual go-to software products include various extract, transform, load (ETL) and data warehousing solutions. However, these products do not always provide the speed required to deliver data on time. An additional product can speed the processing of high volumes of data.

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the reasons why data volumes are increasing and where bottlenecks most frequently occur. It then explains why adding more hardware isn’t a solution to these performance problems and delves into the various methods that can be used to break through the bottlenecks to speed applications.

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Check out this transcript of a presentation given by Sumeet Bansal, Fusion-io Principal Solutions Architect, to learn how Fusion-io solutions enhance SQL server performance, improve customer experience, and optimize storage management systems.

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009

EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE: Read this expert E-Guide from Dell to learn key concepts that will help you architect your next SQL Server installation.

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009