Databases Reports

EGUIDE: This e-guide presents the best practices for tuning database auditing tools. Continue reading this e-guide to learn more about these best practices which will allow you to audit without forfeiting  database performance.

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 | Published: 22 Mar 2011

EBOOK: In this E-Book, IT and data warehousing professionals and business executives involved in data warehouse purchases will get an overview of data warehouse appliance trends and practical advice on how to evaluate and choose the right appliances for their organizations.

Posted: 13 May 2011 | Published: 13 May 2011

EGUIDE: SAP data archiving is an increasingly critical part of SAP operations, but product selection, deployment and validation often complicates this process. This SearchSAP.com Expert Tip explores how to successfully implement an SAP data archiving infrastructure.

Posted: 05 May 2011 | Published: 05 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

CASE STUDY: This paper profiles four of the more than 200 Oracle customers who have migrated to a Teradata solution. The companies profiled in this paper have achieved performance improvements, additional business benefits that justify the migration cost, and successful integration of the Teradata Database with the Oracle OLTP environment.

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 | Published: 11 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

CASE STUDY: Salesforce.com is the leader in enterprise cloud computing services, enabling organizations to manage every part of the customer relationship without having to maintain expensive, in-house applications. Read this case study to learn how Saleforce.com made room for new service and customer growth with Dell's PowerEdge servers.

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 | Published: 06 Jun 2011

VIDEO: Data growth is one of the most significant challenges – and opportunities - facing organizations today. New forms of data, the retention of additional detail for analysis, increasing pressure for high availability of more of the data, regulatory and security.

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 | Premiered: 06 Apr 2011

PODCAST: Oracle Database Lite Client, Branch Office and Web-to-Go have been removed from Oracle's technology price list and are no longer being actively developed.  Now you are faced with a migration project.

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 | Premiered: Mar 31, 2011

VIDEO: This will demonstrate how the DB2 9.7 SQL Compatibility feature makes it easy to migrate from Oracle to DB2. 

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 | Premiered: 31 Mar 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

PODCAST: Oracle has recently introduced the new Exadata Database Machine X-28. Listen to this podcast featuring Ron Weiss to learn more about this new product and how it can enhance your company.

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Premiered: Mar 18, 2011

EBOOK: This guide serves to show you how DBAs can solve some of the complex challenges associated with your changing databases, while optimizing database operations and ensuring business continuity.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 18 Mar 2011

VIDEO: An overview of DB2 pureScale and its benefits.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Premiered: 18 Mar 2011

VIDEO: DB2 automates many routine database administration tasks like database configuration, storage allocation, and memory management. Self-optimizing features automatically react to changes in workloads to adjust memory and optimize system performance. Watch this flash demo to learn why some are referring to DB2 as smarter database software.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Premiered: 18 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

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: This is a developerWorks article. This article summarizes the new pureXML capabilities, explains how they can be used, and discusses sample application scenarios.

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

EBOOK: This informative e-book describes proven strategies for lowering the costs associated with database administration, database development, database systems, and data storage. This e-book also discusses the new breakthrough features that make it easier than ever for you to move to DB2.

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 | Published: 17 Mar 2011

ANALYST REPORT: This report uses a comprehensive methodology to bring third-party, objective ROI analysis to organizations considering the use of Informix. The conclusion? IBM Informix delivers high performance and cost efficiency, including administration efficiency, reduced downtime, improved server utilization, and reduced support costs. 

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 | Published: 17 Mar 2011