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: October 28, 2009 | Published: October 28, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Architectures | Database Design | Database Management | Processor Architectures | Software Architectures | Software as a Service | Software Asset Management | Software Best Practices | Software Configuration Management | Software Development Life-Cycles

WHITE PAPER - This technical guide for database administrators and IT security experts demonstrates how you can protect your sensitive data with the native database encryption functions of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, such as cell-level encryption and Transparent Data Encryption, and manage and protect encryption keys with hardware security modules (HSMs).
Posted: October 21, 2009 | Published: October 21, 2009


Topics:  Data Encryption | Data Security | Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Security | Security | Security Hardware | SQL Server | Windows Server Software

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: October 19, 2009 | Premiered: October 19, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Management | Database Server Software | Databases | IT Managers | Oracle (Product) | Server Hardware

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: October 19, 2009 | Published: October 19, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Architectures | Database Design | Database Management | Database Management Software | Database Managers | Database Performance Management | Relational Database Management Software

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: October 19, 2009 | Published: July 29, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Architectures | Database Design | Database Management | Database Management Software | Database Performance Management

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: October 12, 2009 | Published: October 12, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Collection | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Mining | Data Quality | Data Storage | Data Warehouses | Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | ETL (Software)

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: October 12, 2009 | Published: September 30, 2009


Topics:  Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Database Security | eCommerce | SAN | Storage Management

EGUIDE - Read this expert E-Guide from Dell to learn key concepts that will help you architect your next SQL Server installation.
Posted: October 9, 2009 | Published: October 9, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Design | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | High Availability | Server Virtualization | SQL Server

WHITE PAPER - Infinite Cache™ from EnterpriseDB revolutionizes distributed cache management on commodity blade server hardware by substantially increasing the amount of memory available to hold data including entire databases with outstanding performance.
Posted: September 23, 2009 | Published: September 22, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Cache | Cache Server Hardware | Caching | Capacity Planning | Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | Memory | Memory Management | Server Management

WHITE PAPER - Dynamic management views and functions were extraordinary additions to SQL 2005, and they have only improved in function and increased in number in SQL 2008. This white paper will explore a few of their capabilities and give examples as to how they can ease the workload of a database administrator.
Posted: September 22, 2009 | Published: September 22, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Management Software | Indexing Software | MySQL | Relational Database Management Software | Reporting Software | SQL | SQL Server | Sybase (Product)

WHITE PAPER - This paper will take a look at some of the problems that project data and process architects face in working with other IT roles as well as seven easy and inexpensive steps they can take to ensure a collaborative team environment.
Posted: September 10, 2009 | Published: September 10, 2009


Topics:  Business Processes | Collaboration | Collaborative Master Data Management | Data Management | Database Administration | Database Administrators | Databases | DB2 | IT Management | Project Management | Project Portfolio Management | Regulatory Compliance

WHITE PAPER - The release of Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) version 6 from IBM has sparked numerous questions from existing TSM v5 customers. This white paper is designated for existing TSM v5 customers who would like to explore the options for upgrading to the latest and greatest release of TSM.
Posted: August 17, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Management | Database Administrators | Database Management | Databases | Disk Backups | Disk Drives | Disk Storage Systems | Information Management | Storage Architectures | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Security | Storage Systems | Tape Backups

WHITE PAPER - From its inception, Tivoli Storage Manager was designed to be a highly scalable and available data protection solution. However, Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 takes data protection scalability to the next level with a new relational database, based on IBM DB2® technology, designed to store many more objects and manage more data.
Posted: August 17, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Management | Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Architectures | Database Management | Databases | DB2 | Disk Backups | High Availability | Information Management | Relational Database Management Software | Storage Management | Storage Security

WHITE PAPER - Change data capture (CDC) technology has become a strategic component of many data warehouse and business intelligence (BI) architectures. Read this paper and learn how to use change date capture technology with Microsoft SQL server intergration services in real time.
Posted: July 8, 2009 | Published: July 2, 2008


Topics:  Change Management | Data Integration | Database Administrators | Database Management | Server Management | SQL | SQL Server

ANALYST REPORT - In an ongoing business intelligence project, the new required updates pile up at a steady or accelerating rate, while the effort to make each change grows as the system grows more complex. The inevitable result is a growing backlog of unmet business needs. That build-up is the BI Log Jam. Read this analyst report to learn how to break the cycle.
Posted: June 26, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Warehouses | Database Administrators | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Operational Metrics (Systems) | Operational Support Systems