Data Management
Sponsored by Oracle
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 extends Oracle's unique ability to lower the cost of computing while improving quality of service with grid computing; and it makes it easier for companies to innovate faster with confidence using Real Application Testing. Oracle Database 11g Release 2 delivers industry leading performance, scalability, security and reliability on a choice of clustered or single-servers running Windows, Linux, and UNIX. And it provides comprehensive features to easily manage the most demanding transaction processing, business intelligence, and content management applications.
Sponsored Content
Advanced Compression with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
Read this white paper to learn more about how data compression technologies can help customers reduce the resources and costs of managing large data volumes.
High Availability with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
This white paper reviews the common causes of application downtime and discusses how database management technologies can help avoid costly downtime and enable rapid recovery from unplanned failures, while also minimizing impact from planned outages.
Lowering Your IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
This white paper identifies the key capabilities a database management solution needs to successfully deliver more information with higher quality of service, make more efficient use of IT budgets, and reduce the risk of change in data centers.
Partitioning with Oracle Database 11g Release
Read this white paper to learn about the latest database partitioning techniques, enhanced scalability, and extended manageability and maintenance capabilities.
Cost-Effective Security and Compliance with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
This white paper examines the defense-in-depth security controls within Oracle Database 11g Release 2 that enable organizations to transparently protect data.
Blogs
Mutual Need Drives SAP-Microsoft Alliance
Although any time that Microsoft and SAP cooperate on anything it leads to idle speculation about a possible merger, every now and again even these two giants actually wind up doing something that is just driven by the requirements of mutual customers. Such is the case with the latest cooperative...More >
Data Integration and BI: The High Cost of Doing Nothing
Increasingly, data integration and data quality initiatives go hand-in-hand. And with good reason: Experts say it costs $1 to verify a record at the source, $10 to later cleanse and de-dupe it, and $100 if nothing is done, according to a recent Computerworld Technology Briefing on business...More >
How to Fund MDM and Other Questions Answered
How do you fund master data management? It's no small challenge, and the fact is, few have managed to fund stand-alone MDM projects, according to Wayne Eckerson, director of TDWI Research. Funding can be even more of a challenge if your company recently invested in similar projects, such as data...More >
Articles & Interviews
Microsoft's PowerPivot Puts BI Users More in Control
Ann All spoke with several employees of SharePoint360 , a SharePoint hosting and consulting company specializing in business intelligence that is included in Microsoft's Technical Adoption Program (TAP) for the Gemini technology. (Gemini was recently renamed PowerPivot.) SharePoint360 is the... More >
Have We Lost Control of the Business Intelligence Investment?
Business executives know that one of the surest ways to lose management control is to skip the standard practice of auditing business investments. Unfortunately, that is exactly the current state for business intelligence. Spending on business intelligence assets in the global marketplace has... More >
The Warehouse as an Environment
Art Cole spoke with Kevin Block, SAP alliance and program manager, HP Business Intelligence Solutions. Cole : The HP NeoView platform has been seeing a lot of action lately. First came word that you were integrating some new data integration capabilities from Informatica. What kinds of... More >
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IBM Offers BI Application Service
IBM is making use of its Cognos acquisition to offer the IBM Smart Analytics Cloud . Our CTO Edge site reports that the BI application service will allow customers: to roll out an implementation of Cognos 8 running on top of virtual machine software running on top of a Linux operating system hosted on an IBM... More >
Cray Launches Cray CX1-iWS System
The Cray CX1-iWS , introduced Thursday, is a high-performance computing system that combines a workstation with a computing cluster to give users a little extra oompf at their desk. Cray's new system, which is being exclusively sold by Dell, comprises one blade server powering a Windows 7 workstation and a Windows HPC... More >
IBM's Finger in Every Pie: The Cloud, Analytics, Health Care
IBM is offering cloud services that offer a place for developers to create and test cloud applications, reports ReadWriteWeb . IBM Smart Business Development and Test on IBM Cloud is designed to eliminate the time developers spend setting up their test environments. It will support third-party and open source tools. ... More >
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