Database Development

This whitepaper: Describes a 4-stage virtualization maturity lifecycle experienced by many organizations and discusses in detail (using sample project plans) the tasks and capabilities required to succeed at each stage of the maturity lifecycle.

Read this white paper to learn about the impact of server virtualization on the data center and understand HP's approach to building simpler networks.

A 26-page information rich whitepaper on the business benefits, challenges and best practices of Material Master Data Management

Read this white paper by Don Tapscott and explore the criteria best-in-class retailers use for selecting business intelligence solutions. Companies that effectively harness the vast quantities of information that IT systems generate - both within the corporation and outside its walls - are poised to gain competitive advantage.

There is often a great deal of confusion in determining whether an object database management system (ODBMS) is right for you. Most of this confusion can be resolved by focusing on your application's requirements. In those situations where the application requires the very clear advantages of an ODBMS, choosing which ODBMS becomes a continuation of the exercise of analyzing those application requirements.

This paper looks at cloud architecture in which the servers and networks in the data center can rapidly respond to changing demands.

VMware ZimbraŽ delivers more value to SMBs than competing collaboration solutions, including greater user productivity, efficiency and agility.

While the overall economic perspective is looking brighter than it was a few months ago, retail banks are still looking to cut bottom line costs and reduce expenses wherever possible.

Companies need capabilities for identifying data assets and relationships, assessing data growth and implementing tiered storage strategies-capabilities that information governance can provide. It is important to classify enterprise data, understand data relationships and define service levels. Database archiving has proven effective in managing continued application data growth especially when it is combined with data discovery.

Offshoring Is a Cost Effective Solution to Your IT Needs

How the Vertica Analytic Database is powering the new wave of commercial software, SaaS and appliance-based applications and creating new value and competitive differentiation for solution developers and their customers.

Siemon, a global leader in network cabling solutions and data center physical layer infrastructure, offers this new 66-page E-Book focused on guiding data center professionals and service providers through key infrastructure challenges.

This study highlights best practices from 72 companies to identify how best in class organizations use data to achieve superior performance.

Proactive Data Management Controls Data Growth. To take control, organizations must begin with the conscious decision not to let data growth proceed unexamined.

As you prepare to embark on an ERP implementation or to upgrade an existing system, you have a lot to juggle and plan. You know the horror stories of "go-lives" going bad but you aren't sure how to avoid the pitfalls. This white paper discusses at length how Utopia's formal data migration methodology reduces the risks of large systems deployments by using a tried-and-tested framework for the entire migration process, from source data analysis through post-go-live support.

This chalk talk provides an overview of those challenges, the unique differentiators of Informatica Data Replication, and the most in-demand use cases

This demo showcases the ease-of-use to replicate data sets, the process of connecting to a data source, defining a mapping, initial synchronization, extraction and finally applying to a destination.

This white paper describes how to close this "compliance gap," emphasizing the complementary relationship between SIEM and database activity monitoring technologies, which, taken together, provide a comprehensive view for organizations and auditors to keep data more secure while continuing to address compliance requirements.

This white paper describes how to successfully consolidate your database onto a private cloud through several deployment models.

Vendors in this market have been challenged in their attempts to gain market visibility and awareness for their products and for the benefits they can provide compared with just throwing more hardware at the problem.

Running IT as a service (ITaaS) is not necessarily a new concept. But, the era of cloud computing now places a whole new spin on ITaaS. In this white paper, you'll learn why there is so much buzz around cloud services and the role IT should play in this new cloud-based era. You'll also learn a useful model to help transform your company's IT data center into a private cloud that can ultimately manage and oversee the delivery of both internal and external cloud services to the business.

During challenging economic times, companies are increasingly questioning every budget dollar they spend. Furthermore, companies are reviewing their core vendor relationships to assess which partnerships have lived up to their expectations vs. which have overpromised and under delivered.

Enterprise search has been a service in one form or another on the Microsoft intranet for more than a decade. With the release of Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003, the landscape for enterprise search at Microsoft began to change. This became the foundation for the current solution, the Enterprise Search feature provided in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Read more about the enhancements of this feature in this technical white paper.

Most organizations today understand that a disaster recovery (DR) plan is essential to their continued survival should a natural disaster occur. But implementing a DR plan entails substantial time, effort and cost - not to mention significant investment in developing new areas of technical expertise within the organization. As a result, many organizations are turning to disaster recovery service providers (DRSPs) to offload their disaster recovery operations.

Clouds are all the rage right now. And the truth is that cloud-based computing can be a tremendous value. Cloud-based computing is not just an opportunity for a bunch of venture capitalists hanging out at Sand Hill Road, it's a wonderful chance for small and medium businesses to take a step toward aligning their information technology spend to increase their focus on revenue-generating opportunities.