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  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Oracle Optimized Storage E-Book: Staying Ahead of the Data Explosion

    Data storage challenges are getting much more complex. But choosing a solution just got much easier. Oracle's new e-book, Staying Ahead of the Storage Explosion, provides insight into the integration points between Oracle storage and software that help speed performance and increase efficiency; the industry-leading data protection and storage management...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Oracle Delivers One-Two Punch with New ZS3 Series

    Database and storage administrators face increasing challenges due to the complexities involved with maintaining performance while dealing with the explosion of data. IT organizations are forced to perform labour-intensive manual tweaking while IT staffing levels are virtually frozen.

    Find out how Oracle’s Application Engineered Storage, where the application and...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Transforming Business with Oracle's Optimized Storage for Oracle Database 11g

    Oracle's integrated hardware and software stack that includes Oracle’s optimized storage platforms have been engineered to work together with Oracle Database to optimize overall system and application performance. Competitive storage systems lack integration with the application software, so they do not have the capability to deliver the performance and cost...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-2 - Resources

    The industry's first Application Engineered Storage, deeply integrated with your Oracle Database and applications to deliver maximum performance, ensure rapid creation of secondary databases, and maintain 24/7 availability.

    Find out more here at the Oracle ZS3 Storage hub with numerous videos and resources to choose from.

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Exposing the Unvarnished Truth about Database Storage

    The world of database storage has changed and continues to change at an ever-increasing pace. It’s become virtualized, networked, distributed, and ultimately far more complicated for the database administrator (DBA).

    This document scrutinizes how advances such as virtualization, has made the life of the DBA a living storage hell...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Know What Customers Want Before They Do

    Webcast Summary: Today’s consumers and B2B companies only want interactions that are relevant, personalized, and based on a customer’s situation and preferences. Companies that fail to provide relevant offers will be left behind.

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Nucleus Research: The Future of Sales Performance Management

    Nucleus Research examines new technologies and tools that are improving sales managers’ ability to measure and enhance the performance of their sales teams. Nucleus sees the future of sales performance management as integrated with CRM and collaboration technologies, enhancing managers' ability to provide real-time coaching and motivation in context to...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    The Best Network Attached Storage Choice for Oracle Database and Software Environments

    If you're not using Oracle Storage for your Oracle Database environment, you're missing out on features and functionality that can help you improve performance, efficiency and overall manageability. This paper takes a specific look at how the Sun ZFS Storage 7420 cluster compares to a NetApp FAS3250 cluster, and describes...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Oracle ZS3 Storage: The Value of Integration - ESG paper

    Although it's hard to imagine Oracle doing anything quietly, that's exactly what has happened with its ZFS-based storage appliance. Developed and improved for nearly a decade, it has become a formidable unified and enterprise-grade storage offering without a lot of fanfare. The latest version-ZS3-has a number of advantages which you...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • Podcasts // Oct 2013

    Sell More anytime, Anywhere, any device

    “Sell Anytime, Anywhere, with Any Device” - Live Webcast Aug 28. Speaker Jeffrey Pease. In today’s world, we recognize that many sales rep spend half of the time on the road and are under great pressure to close deals fast. A good mobile SFA solution needs to provide sales people...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • Podcasts // Oct 2013

    Managers Know More with Oracle Sales Cloud

    Oracle Sales Cloud is Smarter SFA that helps Managers know more. Hit your target with no surprises. Act on opportunities and threats faster. Manage more effectively anywhere, using any device.

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • Podcasts // Oct 2013

    Reps Sell More with Oracle Sales Cloud

    Animated Video: Oracle Sales Cloud is smarter selling that will help reps sell more. Oracle Sales Cloud enables sales reps to sell more anytime, anywhere and on any device and empowers them to grow their own pipeline without waiting for marketing.

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • Podcasts // Oct 2013

    Sales Cloud Overview

    Animated Video: Smarter Selling with Oracle Sales Cloud Oracle Sales Cloud is Smarter Selling that will help reps sell more, managers know more, and companies grow more.

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • Podcasts // Oct 2013

    Companies Grow More with Oracle Sales Cloud

    Animated Video: Oracle Sales Cloud is Smarter SFA that helps Companies Grow More. Maximize revenue and optimize sales performance. Know what to sell your customers. And get more help from your marketers and partners.

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    [EIU Report] Data vs Instinct: Perfecting global sales performance

    Perfecting global sales performance explores how sales managers use data - or respond to the lack of it - in developing sales territories and incentive compensation plans.

    As the basis for the research for this paper, the Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a global survey of 229 executives to determine...

    Provided By Oracle

  • eBooks // Jul 2013

    [eBook] Smarter Service: The Contact Center of the Future

    Consumers today expect better. They expect better service, better products and better communication with companies. But to have a single, seamless conversation with every customer across multiple channels, companies can no longer rely on outdated contact centers.

    To meet these challenges, many companies are deploying Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) contact center systems...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    Customer Service in a Social World: Are we there yet?

    Social media is transforming customer care and should be considered a strategic vehicle for delivering excellent customer experiences. A majority of social conversations are noise, however, there are topics that are relevant to different parts of the organization. When the topic is customer-service-related, most organizations are ill-equipped to deliver the...

    Provided By Oracle

  • eBooks // Jul 2013

    Best Practices for Customer Service - A Nucleus Research Guidebook

    As quality service becomes a key differentiator for customer retention and future sales, companies must take an integrated approach to differentiate their customer service from that of their competitors.

    This Guidebook explores the experiences of Oracle RightNow customers and highlights best practices they have taken to enable agents to deliver...

    Provided By Oracle

  • eBooks // Jul 2013

    [eBook] Driving HR Forward

    A Practical Guide for Making the Shift from Administrator to Strategic Advisor.

    The C-Suite wants more out of its Human Resources department. In a 2012 global survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) only 38 percent of CEOs and CFOs said their head of HR was a key player in...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    Oracle Talent Cloud: A Strategic Approach to Talent Management

    Strategic talent management requires looking at the big picture. You can have a great recruiting strategy but later lose your top recruits due to a lack of employee development. You can have the right leaders for organizational success today but be thrown for a loop when one of them leaves...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    Simplify People Management and Build the Best Talent

    To bring real value to their organizations, HR leaders need a comprehensive and integrated human capital management cloud solution that provides depth of functionality without sacrificing agility and that can be easily integrated into their current IT ecosystem.

    This white paper discusses the new challenges and opportunities that are...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Jun 2013

    Data vs. Instinct: Perfecting Global Sales Performance

    This survey based whitepaper, based on interviews with 229 executives worldwide assesses the challenges and opportunities faced by global businesses as they optimize sales resources to develop territories and incentive compensation plans. This is critical in response to emerging market opportunities and complex global economic challenges.

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Jun 2013

    Leveraging Mobility to Improve Sales

    Research and analysis shows that 57 percent of B2B buying steps are completed before a buyer even connects with a salesperson. The role that the sales organization plays in B2B buying cycles has become even more critical. Consistency is necessary through every customer touch point and forms the basis for...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Jun 2013

    Sales Executive Strategy Brief

    Research and analysis shows that 57 percent of B2B buying steps are completed before a buyer even connects with a salesperson. The role that the sales organization plays in B2B buying cycles has become even more critical. Consistency is necessary through every customer touch point and forms the basis for...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Jun 2013

    Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c : Complete, Integrated and Business-Driven Cloud Management

    Cloud computing is often defined as "A style of computing in which massively scalable IT-related capabilities are provided 'as a service' using Internet technologies to multiple customers." Over the years, the benefits of cloud have become more pronounced and several IT organizations have started embracing the model for their own...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Jun 2013

    Strategies for Scalable, Smarter Monitoring Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

    Oracle Enterprise Manager is Oracle's integrated enterprise IT management product line and provides the industry's first complete cloud lifecycle management solution. Oracle Enterprise Manager's Business-Driven IT Management capabilities allow user to quickly set up, manage and support enterprise clouds and traditional Oracle IT environments from applications to disk. Whether users...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Jun 2013

    Oracle Unified Method (OUM) Oracle's Full Lifecycle Method for Deploying Oracle-Based Business Solutions

    The Oracle Unified Method (OUM) is Oracle's standards-based method that enables the entire Enterprise Information Technology (IT) lifecycle. OUM provides an implementation approach that is rapid, broadly adaptive, and business-focused. OUM includes a comprehensive project management framework and materials to support Oracle's growing focus on enterprise-level IT strategy, architecture, and...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Jun 2013

    Securing Oracle E-Business Suite Applications Using Oracle Solaris 11 on SPARC T5 and SPARC M5-32 Servers

    This paper discusses how to secure Oracle E-Business Suite applications using Oracle Solaris 11 security and the hardware-assisted cryptography capabilities of Oracle's SPARC T5 processor-based servers. This paper explores the end-to-end application security scenarios, technical prerequisites, and configuration, deployment, and verification guidelines for Oracle E-Business Suite deployments running on Oracle...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // May 2013

    A Comprehensive Solution to Cloud Integration

    This white paper describes how to integrate on-premise and cloud applications, including Oracle Cloud applications. The hub for these integrations are the Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle data integration products, part of Oracle Fusion Middleware, a unified platform that accommodates all types of information systems, deployment models, SaaS vendors, and...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // May 2013

    Customers Improve Data Warehousing Performance and Lower Costs with Oracle Exadata

    Oracle Exadata changes the game by offering extreme performance for all your data warehousing, online transaction processing (OLTP), and mixed workloads, making it the ideal platform for consolidation onto private clouds. Oracle Exadata is a preoptimized, preconfigured hardware and software solution that is massively scalable, secure, and fully redundant. Its...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // May 2013

    Data Center Best Practices: Managing Data with Cloud Computing

    Data centers are looking at cloud computing as a way to deliver the necessary flexibility, scalability, efficiency and speed. This article looks at Data Center Best Practices and focuses on how companies can leverage data in innovated ways to better respond to changing market requirements and demands.

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // May 2013

    Oracle Information Architecture: An Architect’s Guide to Big Data

    Big Data architecture is not about understanding just what is different. It's also about how to integrate what's new to what you already have - from database-and-BI infrastructure to IT tools, and end user applications. Oracle's own product announcements in hardware, software, and new partnerships have been designed to change...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // May 2013

    Unleash Your People Power with World-Class HCM Applications in the Cloud

    The beauty of the cloud is that you can get up and running fast. The following e-book will provide you a greater insight into Oracle HCM Cloud Services that are a new generation of cloud-based human capital management applications from the global leader in HR management software. Oracle HCM Cloud...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // May 2013

    Maximizing Application Reliability and Availability with SPARC T5 Servers

    Optimizing server hardware is a top priority for IT pros that are trying to cut costs and improve efficiencies, as servers are the foundation for consolidating large volumes of applications, databases and workloads. Check out this white paper to learn about a leading server solution with capabilities to deliver mission-critical...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // May 2013

    Transforming Customer Experience: The Convergence of Social, Mobile and Business Process Management

    To stay ahead in today's rapidly changing business environment, organizations need agile business processes that allow them to adapt quickly to evolving markets, customer needs, policies, regulations, and business models. This whitepaper discusses the convergence of a trio of technologies and business practices - social computing, mobile computing and business...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // May 2013

    Taking Advantage of Multicore/Multiprocessor Technologies to Meet Today’s Storage Needs

    Data growth is not only driving up storage costs, but also transforming performance and efficiency requirements for storage systems. If you're looking for new storage solutions that can address today’s needs for managing large amounts of data, its time to take a more detailed look at the advantages of a...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // May 2013

    Successfully Consolidate Your Database onto Private Clouds

    Consolidating databases onto a private cloud is a new model for the delivery of database services. Private clouds consolidate servers, storage, operating systems, databases, and mixed workloads onto a shared hardware and software infrastructure. Deploying databases on a consolidated private cloud enables IT departments to improve quality of service levels...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // May 2013

    Getting the Most Out of Your Applications With Oracle Exalogic

    This paper explores how Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, an engineered system for business applications, can help enterprises deploy and upgrade applications quickly, handle massive transaction volumes, maintain a consistent set of technological standards across the application stack, and connect components seamlessly. Success in these areas allows companies to improve customer...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // May 2013

    Indian Overseas Bank Cuts Planning Schedule by 45 Worker Days per Year, Assesses Market Risk Instantly with Business Intelligence System

    Recent advances in analytics could fundamentally change your business. Analytics solutions are ready to deliver revolutionary insights into customer behaviour and enable you to identify market trends. Let's consider a recent case where Oracle's Business Intelligence solutions were put into action. The Indian Overseas Bank which has close to 2500...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // May 2013

    Using Social to Improve Customer Experience

    With four out of five Americans now using social networks, the era of social networking clearly has arrived, creating significant implications for enterprises. Today, there are compelling rewards for embracing social networks - and potentially severe penalties for putting it off any longer. This whitepaper outlines four key ground rules...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Transforming Business with Oracle's Optimized Storage for Oracle Database 11g

    Oracle's integrated hardware and software stack that includes Oracle’s optimized storage platforms have been engineered to work together with Oracle Database to optimize overall system and application performance. Competitive storage systems lack integration with the application software, so they do not have the capability to deliver the performance and cost...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • Podcasts // Oct 2013

    Sell More anytime, Anywhere, any device

    “Sell Anytime, Anywhere, with Any Device” - Live Webcast Aug 28. Speaker Jeffrey Pease. In today’s world, we recognize that many sales rep spend half of the time on the road and are under great pressure to close deals fast. A good mobile SFA solution needs to provide sales people...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Know What Customers Want Before They Do

    Webcast Summary: Today’s consumers and B2B companies only want interactions that are relevant, personalized, and based on a customer’s situation and preferences. Companies that fail to provide relevant offers will be left behind.

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Nucleus Research: The Future of Sales Performance Management

    Nucleus Research examines new technologies and tools that are improving sales managers’ ability to measure and enhance the performance of their sales teams. Nucleus sees the future of sales performance management as integrated with CRM and collaboration technologies, enhancing managers' ability to provide real-time coaching and motivation in context to...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • Podcasts // Oct 2013

    Managers Know More with Oracle Sales Cloud

    Oracle Sales Cloud is Smarter SFA that helps Managers know more. Hit your target with no surprises. Act on opportunities and threats faster. Manage more effectively anywhere, using any device.

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • Podcasts // Oct 2013

    Reps Sell More with Oracle Sales Cloud

    Animated Video: Oracle Sales Cloud is smarter selling that will help reps sell more. Oracle Sales Cloud enables sales reps to sell more anytime, anywhere and on any device and empowers them to grow their own pipeline without waiting for marketing.

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • Podcasts // Oct 2013

    Sales Cloud Overview

    Animated Video: Smarter Selling with Oracle Sales Cloud Oracle Sales Cloud is Smarter Selling that will help reps sell more, managers know more, and companies grow more.

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • Podcasts // Oct 2013

    Companies Grow More with Oracle Sales Cloud

    Animated Video: Oracle Sales Cloud is Smarter SFA that helps Companies Grow More. Maximize revenue and optimize sales performance. Know what to sell your customers. And get more help from your marketers and partners.

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Oracle Optimized Storage E-Book: Staying Ahead of the Data Explosion

    Data storage challenges are getting much more complex. But choosing a solution just got much easier. Oracle's new e-book, Staying Ahead of the Storage Explosion, provides insight into the integration points between Oracle storage and software that help speed performance and increase efficiency; the industry-leading data protection and storage management...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Oracle Delivers One-Two Punch with New ZS3 Series

    Database and storage administrators face increasing challenges due to the complexities involved with maintaining performance while dealing with the explosion of data. IT organizations are forced to perform labour-intensive manual tweaking while IT staffing levels are virtually frozen.

    Find out how Oracle’s Application Engineered Storage, where the application and...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    The Best Network Attached Storage Choice for Oracle Database and Software Environments

    If you're not using Oracle Storage for your Oracle Database environment, you're missing out on features and functionality that can help you improve performance, efficiency and overall manageability. This paper takes a specific look at how the Sun ZFS Storage 7420 cluster compares to a NetApp FAS3250 cluster, and describes...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-2 - Resources

    The industry's first Application Engineered Storage, deeply integrated with your Oracle Database and applications to deliver maximum performance, ensure rapid creation of secondary databases, and maintain 24/7 availability.

    Find out more here at the Oracle ZS3 Storage hub with numerous videos and resources to choose from.

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Oracle ZS3 Storage: The Value of Integration - ESG paper

    Although it's hard to imagine Oracle doing anything quietly, that's exactly what has happened with its ZFS-based storage appliance. Developed and improved for nearly a decade, it has become a formidable unified and enterprise-grade storage offering without a lot of fanfare. The latest version-ZS3-has a number of advantages which you...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Exposing the Unvarnished Truth about Database Storage

    The world of database storage has changed and continues to change at an ever-increasing pace. It’s become virtualized, networked, distributed, and ultimately far more complicated for the database administrator (DBA).

    This document scrutinizes how advances such as virtualization, has made the life of the DBA a living storage hell...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • Downloads // May 2012

    Oracle Crystal Ball Download - 30 Day Free Trial

    Oracle Crystal Ball is the leading spreadsheet-based application suite for predictive modeling, forecasting, simulation, and optimization. It gives you unparalleled insight into the critical factors affecting risk. With Crystal Ball, you can make the right tactical decisions to reach your objectives and gain a competitive edge under even the most...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Jan 2010

    Database Rolling Upgrade Using Transient Logical Standby: Oracle Data Guard 11g

    Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) is Oracle's best practices blueprint for implementing Oracle high-availability technologies. This MAA white paper provides best practices for utilizing a physical standby database to perform a rolling upgrade with minimal downtime using the new Data Guard 11g feature, Transient Logical Standby. Rolling upgrades eliminates downtime...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Jan 2010

    Automatic Workload Management With Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 2

    Applications using a clustered database generally want to load balance their workload across the cluster. Starting with Oracle RAC 10g Release 2 the load balancing advisory provides real-time information to the application tier on the service level being provided by the database. Applications can utilize this information to provide the...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Mar 2010

    Deploying Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition With Oracle Active Data Guard

    This paper describes the Enterprise Deployment architecture for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus (Oracle BI EE Plus). It also describes how to configure Oracle BI EE Plus with Oracle Active Data Guard. Oracle BI EE Plus is a comprehensive suite of enterprise BI products that delivers a full range...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Mar 2010

    Oracle GoldenGate High Availability Using Oracle Clusterware

    Oracle GoldenGate is often used in mission-critical systems with stringent high availability requirements. In an Oracle to Oracle scenario, minimal latency between the source and the destination databases is important to achieve minimal downtime and minimal data loss in case of a failover. In an Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC)...

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  • White Papers // Jan 2010

    Setting Up Oracle 11g Data Guard for SAP Customers

    Oracle Data Guard is the management, monitoring, and automation software infrastructure that creates, maintains, and monitors one or more standby databases to protect enterprise data from failures, disasters, errors, and data corruptions. Data Guard maintains standby databases as consistent copies of the production database as far as transactions are concerned....

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Aug 2009

    Lessons From the Credit Crisis: Recommendations on Deploying Basel II Enhancements

    Around 30 Principles, Consultation Papers, Reports and Working Papers including enhancements to Basel II framework have been issued by the Basel Committee of Banking Supervisors (BCBS) since June, 2006. In the United States, the Obama administration has proposed "Financial Regulatory Reform - A New Foundation" which is being positioned as...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Feb 2010

    Benefits of Using the Solaris 10 OS With Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition

    The Solaris OS is continually and rapidly expanding its features and capabilities. The Solaris 10 OS has many enhancements over previous releases, and it continues to deliver innovative approaches and tools. Some of the many features that specifically benefit the Directory Server are presented in this paper. The Solaris OS...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Jan 2010

    Mobile Technology for Wealth Management Advisor

    Financial advisors face difficult times. The volatile market conditions force advisors to work much harder to retain their client's business, while clients demand better service levels from their financial services firms. Many clients are much better informed these days and have access to real-time information wherever they are. Mobile phones,...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Mar 2010

    Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 11g: Version 11.1.2

    Internet searches have shown that significant information uplift can accrue from search technology. Without search engines, the Internet would still have billions of web pages, but surfers would have to know URLs a priori, or navigate through directories, to locate pages of interest. Clearly it is Search that makes Google...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Jun 2009

    Implementing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 in K-12 Education

    While campaigning for President, Barack Obama promised that if elected he would make education a national priority. On February 17, 2009 he kept his promise and greatly expanded the role the federal government will play in elementary, secondary and higher education by signing into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Feb 2010

    Benefits of an Exclusive Multimaster Deployment of Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition

    One of the significant features introduced since Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6 (hereafter referred to as "Directory Server 6") is that it allows unlimited master directory servers. This paper describes the benefits of deploying an exclusively multimaster topology instead of a master, consumer, and replication hub directory topology as...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Mar 2010

    Sun Netra T5220 Server Architecture

    In a period of intense competition and emerging technologies, telecommunications companies face the challenge of delivering and supporting a multitude of new voice and data solutions. The integration of wireless, video, multimedia, and messaging solutions - along with skyrocketing growth in user volumes - is forcing the underlying IT infrastructure...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Mar 2009

    Oracle SecureFiles: Prepared for the Digital Deluge

    Digital unstructured data volumes across enterprise, Internet and multimedia applications are predicted to surpass 6.023x1023 (Avogadro's number) bits a year in the next fifteen years. This poses tremendous scalability challenges for data management solutions in the coming decades. Filesystems seem to be preferred by data management application designers for providing...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Apr 2010

    Best Practices for Running Oracle Databases in Oracle Solaris Containers

    The Oracle Solaris operating system includes support for Oracle Solaris Containers, a virtualization technology that provides isolated and secure runtime environments within a single Oracle Solaris instance. Using Oracle Solaris Containers, administrators can manage separate workloads, control resource usage, and maintain IP network separation. These features can enable multiple applications,...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Apr 2010

    How to Manage Systems With Oracle Solaris ZFS in Oracle Solaris Containers

    This paper is intended to show a new user the capabilities of the Oracle Solaris ZFS File System when coupled with Oracle Solaris Containers. It describes the assignment of an Oracle Solaris ZFS file system to a zone, and some of the administrative tasks possible in such a configuration. Assigning...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Apr 2010

    How to Create an Oracle Solaris Service Management Facility Manifest

    This white paper explains what a basic Oracle Solaris Service Management Facility (SMF) service manifest is and shows how to develop a service manifest for a given application. The service manifest for the PostgreSQL database included in Oracle Solaris 10 is the example in this paper. After reading this paper,...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // May 2010

    Configuring Oracle Solaris ZFS for an Oracle Database

    A large number of enterprise customers today run an Oracle relational database on top of storage arrays with different sophistication levels and many customers would like to take advantage of the Oracle Solaris ZFS file system. Using the Oracle Solaris ZFS file system can reduce the cost and complexity of...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Feb 2010

    Data Resilience and Improved Performance in the Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 Arrays

    The ability of a business to withstand outages and to operate important services normally and without interruption is crucial. Data resilience and high availability protect companies from the loss of revenue associated with the disruption of access to their data resources and critical business applications. Because of this, organizations need...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Apr 2010

    Architecture Principles and Implementation Practices for Remote Replication Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems

    An increase in storage demand increases the complexity of protecting data. The storage-based remote replication feature of Oracle's Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System (2010.Q1 release) products offers a simple and effective automated solution for businesses that require off-site copies of production data in addition to local backups. Disaster recovery...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Apr 2010

    Best Practices for Moving to the Oracle Solaris 10 Operating System: Best Practices for Oracle Solaris 10 in the Datacenter

    This white paper provides an overview of the technologies and approaches available when upgrading to the Oracle Solaris 10 operating system - from a simple system upgrade to a consolidation strategy using built-in virtualization technology. It discusses the upgrade options available, issues to consider, planning the upgrade, and strategies for...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Apr 2010

    Management of Systems and Services Made Simple With the Oracle Solaris Service Management Facility: Best Practices for Oracle Solaris 10 in the Datacenter

    Older UNIX operating systems, such as Oracle Solaris 8 and Oracle Solaris 9, include a set of services - a set of individual applications that execute as a single process - that start at boot time and continue to execute while the system is up and running. These processes handle...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Apr 2010

    Cost-Effective Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems From Oracle for Oracle Databases

    Reducing operational and capital expenses while maintaining end-user Quality of Service (QoS) for Oracle database system deployments helps enable businesses to improve operational efficiency, gain new customers, and provide increased financial returns to business owners and investors. In the context of storage for Oracle databases, realizing these benefits can be...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Apr 2010

    Deploying Oracle Siebel CRM on Oracle's Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems

    For Oracle! Siebel CRM (Customer Relationship Management) applications, Oracle's Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems meet a range of functional requirements for availability, capacity, and performance. Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems are especially well suited for deployment with Oracle Siebel CRM 8 software because these applications typically impose significant...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Mar 2010

    10 Best Practices for a Successful Customer Solution Engagement

    This paper is based on information from Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and other IT models and methodologies. This paper is also based on my 17+ years in the IT industry as a government employee working at large enterprises, a contractor (body shop) contracted into...

    Provided By Oracle

  • White Papers // Jan 2010

    Model-Driven Application Deployment for Cloud Computing Environments

    The accepted best practice for creating virtual machine images for cloud computing environments is to create a golden master image that is then replicated for each virtual machine instance that is created. This approach has numerous drawbacks because it focuses on the end result - the bits that make up...

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