WHITE PAPER - While energy consumption of overall data center operations and server-related equipment is generally understood, the story is quite different when it comes to storage systems. This paper offers practical advice on how to measure storage system efficiency and compares the efficiency numbers of several common storage solutions.
Posted: November 19, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Cooling Equipment | Data Centers | Databases | Disaster Recovery | Green Data Center | Green Storage | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | Tape Libraries | UPS

WHITE PAPER - In this paper – first in a three part series - we will examine the difficulties of working with keywords during a matter, the many challenges associated with relying on keyword search, and the cost and risk associated with attempting to “guess” one’s way to a relevant document set.
Posted: November 16, 2009 | Published: November 4, 2009


Topics:  Data Storage | Databases | Document Management | Documentation | Electronic Discovery | Email Archiving | Email Management | Legal Compliance Software

WHITE PAPER - Double-Take Software provides organizations with a solution that offers distinct recovery and protection advantages over manual Microsoft SQL built-in replication capabilities: Double-Take Availability saves more data real-time and restores that data in a much faster manner.
Posted: November 16, 2009 | Published: October 22, 2009


Topics:  Database Management | Database Security | Database Server Software | Databases | High Availability | SQL | SQL Server

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: November 11, 2009 | Published: January 15, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Systems | CIOs | Databases | IT Infrastructure | ROI | SOA

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper will discuss the challenges you can have to backup and protect using native tools and how you can successfully protect your SharePoint environment using Mimosa NearPoint™ for SharePoint.
Posted: November 10, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Data Recovery | Databases | Electronic Discovery Software | IT Infrastructure | IT Managers | SQL

WHITE PAPER - In planning storage solutions for Oracle database applications, Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems offer a range of performance and scalability options, and can be configured to meet specific application requirements for capacity, performance, and reliability.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Published: January 23, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Management | Databases | Oracle (Product) | Storage Management | Storage Systems

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: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 2, 2009


Topics:  Data Management | Data Migration | Data Quality | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | Enterprise Content Management | Enterprise Resource Management | ERP | Risk Assessment | Risk Management

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: November 2, 2009 | Published: October 28, 2009


Topics:  Cache | Cache Server Software | Caching | Cloud Computing | Data Center Management | Database Administration | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases

WHITE PAPER - This paper will help you understand the prospects that Postgres Plus RDBMS from EnterpriseDB and the JBoss Application Server from Red Hat can provide when used in combination.
Posted: October 30, 2009 | Published: October 30, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Database Administration | Database Architectures | Database Performance Management | Database Performance Management Software | Databases | J2EE | Oracle (Product) | PostgreSQL | Web 2.0

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: October 20, 2009 | Published: August 20, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | Storage Appliances | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - Based on open source software and powerful Sun hardware technology, the Sun Business Intelligence Solution for Web Infrastructure provides an easy to manage, enterprise-class, and highly scalable Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing solution that features a low total cost of ownership.
Posted: October 12, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  Analytic Applications Software | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Warehouses | Databases | Open Source Software

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)

WHITE PAPER - Alinean, a leader in IT value measurement, teamed up with HP and Novell to assess the financial merits of moving from a legacy Sun Solaris and SPARC environment to Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) running on HP ProLiant DL 785 G6 x86 Servers versus upgrading to SUN Solaris 10 running on Sun SPARC T5440. Read this paper for the results.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Database Management | Database Managers | Database Performance Management | Databases | Linux | Open Source | SAP (Product) | TCO

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: September 25, 2009 | Published: September 25, 2009


Topics:  Data Management | Data Storage | Database Architectures | Database Design | Databases | Oracle (Product) | Scalability Testing | SOA

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper to get an overview of the Oracle Database family of products and learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2.
Posted: September 25, 2009 | Published: September 25, 2009


Topics:  Cluster Management | Data Center Design | Database Management | Database Management Software | Databases | IT Infrastructure | Oracle (Product) | SOA