WHITE PAPER - This paper details five reasons there is a shift to data discovery tools for business intelligence (BI) tool kits.
Posted: February 1, 2012 | Published: February 1, 2012


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Analytics | Data Management | Data Mining | Databases

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper for a performance review of Oracle databases on physical versus virtual servers.
Posted: January 3, 2012 | Published: December 29, 2011


Topics:  Data Centers | Database Administration | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | Oracle (Product) | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | VMware | VMware Server

WHITE PAPER - In this paper, gain a better understanding of how branching and merging patterns work and how applying them to your projects can have a profound effect on how your development team handles change management and delivers software.
Posted: January 6, 2012 | Published: January 5, 2012


Topics:  Change Management | Configuration Management | Software | Software Configuration Management | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools

EBOOK - This eBook provides a step-by-step guide for choosing the best scalability methods and approaches to ensure that cost-conscious administrators meet their two most important goals these days: making sure the project maximizes end user satisfaction while keeping expenses to a minimum.
Posted: July 14, 2011 | Published: July 14, 2011


Topics:  Data Compression | Data Management | Data Quality | Data Storage | Database Management | Databases | Oracle (Product) | Scalability Testing

WHITE PAPER - This white paper shows how to apply the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array as storage for database indexes in order to accelerate application performance.
Posted: October 1, 2010 | Published: June 1, 2010


Topics:  Access Control | Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Bandwidth Management | Databases | Flash Memory | Storage Standards

WHITE PAPER - Nucleus analyzed existing Force.com application deployments and found an average of 4.9 times faster development.  End customers, developers, and ISVs experience more rapid time to value, lower cost, and greater ongoing flexibility.
Posted: October 21, 2011 | Published: February 18, 2011


Topics:  Software | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Web Applications Architectures | Web Applications Management | Web Applications Software

WHITE PAPER - This paper takes a detailed look at the leading reasons to do a database upgrade and the specific benefits of upgrading.
Posted: February 1, 2011 | Published: February 1, 2011


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Database Administration | Database Management | Database Managers | Database Performance Management | Databases | ROI

WHITE PAPER - Applied Oracle Security (Oracle Press, 2010) is the definitive guide to safeguarding Oracle Database 11g written by the security experts in Oracle’s National Security Group. This complementary chapter on auditing covers how to audit database activity efficiently, improve security, address regulatory requirements, and automate compliance reporting.
Posted: September 6, 2011 | Published: September 6, 2011


Topics:  Data Security | Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Design | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Database Security | Databases

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explains the differences between the de-duplication approaches, discusses the strengths and limitations of each, shows how different backup tasks are likely to benefit from them, and talks about the business benefits.
Posted: October 23, 2008 | Published: October 23, 2008


Topics:  Data Recovery | Data Security | Data Storage | Databases | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Server Virtualization | WAN | Windows

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: April 25, 2011 | Published: November 30, 2010


Topics:  Data Modeling | Data Warehouses | Database Performance Management | Database Performance Management Software | Databases | Hardware | Hardware Configuration Management | Hardware Management | OLTP | Oracle (Product)

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses the procedures for upgrading your Oracle database,— particularly focusing on using Oracle’s real-time data integration software, Oracle GoldenGate— along with the results of such upgrades.
Posted: December 8, 2011 | Published: December 8, 2011


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Management | Database Management Software | Databases | Oracle (Product)

WEBCAST - Attend this webinar to learn about Forrester's Total Economic Impact (TEI) framework and how you can use it to identify high-ROI data integration solutions for your own organization. An overview of Forrester’s DMExpress analysis, with financial results and customer interview highlights, will also be presented.
Posted: January 25, 2012 | Premieres: March 6, 2012


Topics:  Data Integration | Data Management | Data Stewardship | Data Warehouses | Database Management | Databases

CASE STUDY - Access this case study to learn how the Soldotna Police Department deployed Blackberry smartphones and InterActPocketCop™ by InterAct Public Safety Systems, to gain wireless access to federal, state and motor vehicle databases.
Posted: September 16, 2011 | Published: September 16, 2011


Topics:  Communications Systems | Databases | Email | Mobile Device Management | Smart Phones | Wireless Application Development | Wireless Computing

WHITE PAPER - Reliability and availability, data protection, performance, and scalability are all essential characteristics of a database management system. This paper looks at each one of those characteristics in detail and offers an implementation guide for SMBs that require a highly reliable database environment.
Posted: May 1, 2010 | Published: April 29, 2010


Topics:  Backups | Data Management | Data Storage | Database Management | Database Management Software | Database Managers | Databases | Productivity | SMBs | SQL | SQL Server

CASE STUDY - Read this customer case study to see how Canadian mutual fund company AIC Ltd. leveraged Quantum's DXi™5500 disk backup solution featuring data deduplication and replication technology in order to drastically reduce backup time as well as cut storage costs and management.
Posted: April 1, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Management | Data Replication | Data Security | Database Performance Management | Databases | Disk Backups | ERP | IT Infrastructure | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management