Databases White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Learn how Pink OTC Market Inc., the third largest U.S. equity trading marketing place,  built a highly available and reliable (no downtime in a year of production use) data warehouse using Vertica's Analytic DBMS that cost-effectively stores billions of records and scales easily by simply adding CPUs without incurring additional licensing fees.

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 | Published: 16 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Consolidating and/or virtualizing SQL Server databases can improve data center efficiency and enable you to tackle database sprawl, achieve high availability, and boost agility. Beginning with the value 4 processor (4P) capabilities of the AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series platform, the AMD/Dell/Microsoft combination can help produce substantial savings.

Posted: 25 Jun 2010 | Published: 25 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: This guide outlines the common steps that people go through when they are interested in evaluating an open source database (e.g. one or both of the Postgres Plus products). This guide will also provide links to other documents/collateral that will help you accomplish each step. Read on to learn about these common steps in evaluation in more detail.

Posted: 16 Jun 2010 | Published: 15 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Data is the lifeblood of organizations but few organizations take an asset-based, comprehensive approach to it. It drives too much cost because of redundant proliferation, poor synchronization across applications and lack of comprehensive availability policies. Read this paper to learn how effective data integration strategies can help.

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 | Published: 15 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Any organization delivering services or products via the Web should consider SecureSphere as a “must-have” piece of its IT protection infrastructure. The product set makes a strong case for itself as a leading contender in this market space. Read this paper to read more.

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 | Published: 02 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: The Total Data Quality Integration Toolkit is an affordable, full-featured enterprise data integration platform and rich development environment for creating and managing data assets that can be leveraged specifically for MDM applications. TDQ-IT leverages SSIS to provide a flexible, effective solution for data quality and MDM initiatives.

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 | Published: 20 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Melissa Data’s WebSmart Services can handle your data quality needs. Ensure that your contact data, including addresses, names, phone numbers, and emails are valid, and use existing data to append additional information to enhance initiatives. The WebSmart services can be integrated into the business chain to ensure the integrity of your database.

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 | Published: 20 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Open system technology has introduced real threats to data; making loss—whether from theft, malicious manipulation or inadvertent misuse—easier than before. The IBM i has exceptional audit capabilities making it one of the most secure technology platforms. Read this white paper to learn how the IBM i might be a good solution for your organization.

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 | Published: 16 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Rapid Application Development (RAD) Tools have become the best way for businesses to incorporate agility into their application development projects. This paper examines the FileMaker Platform and how it offers certain advantages over tools that use more traditional methodologies such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and Salesforce.com.

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 | Published: 12 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Agile Software Development is one of the most effective methodologies to develop application software. This paper examines and compares RDBMS with several object persistence methods within the context of Agile Software Development by quantifying the impact of these methods on the velocity and success of an agile application development project.

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Discover the differences between PostgreSQL, Postgres Plus Standard Server and Postgres Plus Advanced Server and optimize your choice of open source database. You'll learn enough about the different capabilities, modules, and uses for each product to make the best Postgres choice for your organization.

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 | Published: 02 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper considers the potential of exploiting existing data held by organizations in such a way that it can be used to generate increased revenue. It considers the issues facing organizations in terms of the quality of their master data, as well as making recommendations to achieve improved revenue management.

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 28 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This informative white paper explains how the new Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node offers enhanced high availability for single-instance databases, protecting from both planned and unplanned downtime.

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 | Published: 17 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this technical brief to learn more about the Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition architecture in detail.

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 | Published: 01 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper defines the challenges facing today's IT executives and steps you can take now to support your organization’s SOA-based initiatives by cutting costs, leveraging your existing IT infrastructure and improving productivity.

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 15 Jan 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: 28 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about the latest partitioning techniques, enhanced scalability, and extended manageability capabilities available in Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This document covers the key overall concepts and procedures you need to setup and configure your Hyper-V platform. It reviews in detail the approach that PT and Dell recommend for a tested and validated installation of Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This Deployment Guide reviews the approach that Principled Technologies and Dell recommend for migrating databases from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Apr 2008

WHITE PAPER: In this whitepaper presented by the Edison Group, reveals how Oracle Database widens the manageability lead over Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The study shows how Oracle Database can save 43% in time and 41% in database management costs over Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 15 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This technical note discusses how to configure deduplication for primary storage policy copies on the Dell PowerVault™ DL2000 magnetic library to achieve high performance.

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 | Published: 12 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the data explosion phenomenon and why column-oriented database systems are able to provide the boost that is needed to gain the performance edge. The paper contrasts row-oriented systems with column-oriented systems, and then elaborates on the benefits of the columnar approach.

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This Sun BluePrints™ article explains the process of moving an SAP environment from one system to another, and describes the resources and services available from Sun to assist users planning a migration.

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 | Published: 22 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: As organizations continue to employ larger data warehouses, the need for performance will continue to outpace the capabilities of traditional relational databases. This paper explores the data explosion and why column-oriented database systems are able to provide the boost needed to gain the performance edge.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper compares the TCO of Oracle11g and Sybase ASE 15 databases, and demonstrates Sybase as the clear winner. Read this paper to learn why enterprises choose Sybase ASE on Linux for mission-critical applications that demand lightning-fast performance.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009