Oracle White Papers

Effective Data Leak Prevention Programs: Start by Protecting Data at the Source - Your Databases

Data, by IDC estimates, is doubling every two years, but as the overall amount of data grows, so does the amount of sensitive and regulated data. All data stored by enterprises requires high levels of security. This IDC white paper presents a proactive approach to data protection, discusses the growing threats to business information, and the impact government regulations have on requiring additional data protections. Learn how enterprises must adopt security best practices that bring together both data leak prevention and database security in order to protect data from both internal and external threats while ensuring that the data is available to those who require it.

Sponsor: Oracle

Forrester: Formulate A Database Security Strategy to Ensure Investments Will Actually Prevent Data Breaches and Satisfy Regulatory Requirements

Although most organizations are taking stronger measures to protect their data, significant gaps still exist at the very core - their databases. Many don't have a comprehensive database security strategy to defend against sophisticated attacks, track sensitive data, or even meet emerging regulatory requirements.

Sponsor: Oracle

Ready or not, here comes the cloud

Clouds do many things well, but fixing performance problems isn't one of them. For that you need a world-class application server. Learn how application delivery problems continue to frustrate IT managers and how to move to the cloud without losing your sanity.

Sponsor: Oracle

Get a Robust, Flexible Foundation for Enterprise Cloud Deployments

The Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure addresses one of the key challenges in deploying a virtualization infrastructure. IT organizations often spend multiple weeks to plan, architect, troubleshoot, and deploy a multi-vendor solution. Deployment teams must assemble and integrate a range of hardware and software components from different vendors (e.g. servers, storage, network, virtualization software, and operating systems). The process is not only time-consuming, but also error-pone, making it hard to achieve a timely and profitable return on investment. The Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure offers a much simpler approach that speeds deployment and reduces risk. It is a single-vendor solution for the entire hardware and software stack from application to disk and can be deployed in hours rather than weeks. This optimized solution has gone through Oracle Validated Configuration testing, resulting in a pre-tested, pre-optimized, validated configuration that can significantly reduce testing time as well as the time-consuming effort of determining a stable configuration. This paper provides recommendations and best practices for optimizing virtualization infrastructures when deploying the Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure. It covers deployment of software, hardware, storage, and network components and is intended to serve as a practical guide to help IT organizations get up and running quickly while maximizing the benefits of Oracle VM.

Sponsor: Oracle

Storage for Application Consolidation

In recent years, one common approach to cutting IT costs is to launch an application consolidation project-using virtualization to consolidate computing and storage resources in order to more efficiently support and sustain business-critical application availability. This paper describes how Oracle's integrated storage approach and next-generation storage solutions deliver on the promise of application onsolidation-and help companies fully exploit the business advantages of a private cloud.

Sponsor: Oracle

Archiving for Dummies e-book

Want the smartest IT department? Just surround yourself with Dummies. Data retention in today's digial era is a major challenge for businesses and organizations. This e-book is your guide to the basics of archive, archive components, use cases in today's enterprises and organizations, and key factors to consider for your archive solutions.

Sponsor: Oracle

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business Process Platforms 2011 Vendor Analysis

This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to assess the capabilities of vendors to support midrange to complex process improvement scenarios using business process management software. Business process platforms provide development and runtime environments to improve and automate a wide range of processes and support advanced use cases around orchestration, process interoperability, end-to-end process monitoring, and event-driven process management. That means BP platforms are capable of combining people- and system-centric use cases.

Sponsor: Oracle

Oracle SOA vs. IBM SOA - Customer Perspectives on Evaluating Complexity and Business Value

Implementing a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in your business comes with plenty of benefits. Lower costs, faster computing, and the ability to develop mission-critical applications on a shorter timeframe and those are just the beginning. However, SOAs come with challenges too, especially when it comes to implementation. Your best course of action is to pick an SOA that you know you can live with, but which one? SOAs from Oracle and IBM are currently leading the industry, but there is still debate about which one is better.
Download this white paper, Oracle SOA vs. IBM SOA for a comprehensive comparison between these two market leaders.
-Discover the unique benefits to each SOA product.
-Learn how certain drawbacks can become major issues down the road.
-Inform your SOA decision makers.
With this white paper, Oracle SOA vs. IBM SOA, you'll get a healthy perspective on SOA and figure out which one is best for your organization.

Sponsor: Oracle

Top Reasons to Implement an SOA Governance Strategy: A List for IT Executives

For businesses seeking to increase flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency, a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) could be the solution. It has the power to make your organization more agile and speed up your application development time. However, it comes with some risks, and many IT executives soon find themselves in over their heads. In order to avoid the common pitfalls associated with SOAs and ensure smooth sailing for your IT, you'll need a governance plan. Download this white paper, Top Reasons to Implement an SOA Governance Strategy: A List for IT Executives, for a guide to governance that will set you on the right path.

Sponsor: Oracle

Reducing Costs Through Better Server Utilization

As IT organizations support dynamically changing business priorities and cope with economic pressures, maintaining datacenter agility is critical By consolidating systems onto the latest server technology and taking advantage of virtualization techniques, enterprises can optimize datacenter efficiency, gain flexibility, and reduce operating costs-without sacrificing performance or impacting service levels.

Sponsor: Oracle

2011 IOUG Data Security Survey: Databases More at Risk Than Ever

More than 300 database and information security professionals were recently surveyed on their data security practices. The results were disturbing with 60% saying that a data breach is likely, or they're not sure what to expect, over the next 12 months. According to the report, despite well publicized successful attacks on databases and global regulations calling for data privacy protection, most organizations have still not put in place the controls needed to protect sensitive data and critical database infrastructure from abuse by insiders or attackers exploiting legitimate database access through SQL injection, stolen credentials, and other techniques. Download this complimentary copy of the 2011 IOUG Data Security Survey Report and see how your organization measures up.

Sponsor: Oracle

SANS Institute: Oracle Database Vault Review - Controlling Privileged User Access to Sensitive Application Data

Privileged users are often granted the keys to the kingdom, giving them access to critical data within the database, even if they do not need to see, copy or touch that data in order to do their jobs. Regulations require that only those who need access to sensitive data should be given access. In this hands-on review, the SANS Institute Analyst Program examines Oracle Database Vault, which provides the capability to limit access of privileged users and DBAs to critical data and actions.

Sponsor: Oracle

Sustainable Compliance for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard

Organizations continue to struggle to achieve compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Not surprisingly, major data breaches have occurred in companies that were technically PCI compliant. This white paper explains the essentials of a PCI DSS compliance program, focusing on the critical but problematic areas that comprise much of the heart of the requirements. Oracle's comprehensive portfolio of data security, identity management and configuration management products provide end-to-end security that fulfill the enterprise's most critical PCI compliance needs.

Sponsor: Oracle

Get Serious About SOA Governance: A Five-Step Action Plan for Executives

Whether your organization's service-oriented architecture (SOA) has 50 services being used by one customer, or 50 customers using one service, you need SOA governance; increased business agility depends on it. SOA governance provides the ability to quickly and continuously translate and transmit business strategy and requirements into the processes, policies, and controls that will guide the evolution of your infrastructure and your enterprise. Download this whitepaper, Get Serious About SOA Governance: A Five-Step Action Plan for Executives to see why many organizations are reaping the rewards of successful SOA transformations and what you need to do to make yours one of them.

Sponsor: Oracle

Migrating Your Legacy IBM Database Environment to the Latest Oracle Technologies

This guide reviews the recommended approach for planning and implementing the migration of applications on an IBM Power system running AIX to Oracle's Sun Fire X4800 Server with the Intel Xeon Processor 7560 running Oracle Linux 5.5 Operating System. With high scalability, dense computing capability, high reliability, and built-in virtualization, the Oracle Sun Fire X4800 is excellent for consolidation, virtualization, running database applications, and running enterprise high-performance computing applications. Download this guide to ensure a seamless migration and take advantage of reduced costs associated with extremely efficient day-to-day database administration.

Sponsor: Oracle

Data Masking Best Practices for Copying Sensitive Data Into Non-Production Environments

Many organizations inadvertently breach information when they routinely copy sensitive or regulated production data into non-production environments. Data in non-production environments has increasingly become the target of cyber criminals and can be lost or stolen due to weak security controls and unmonitored access. Download this paper to learn data masking best practices and enable your organization to safely use production data for development, testing, and sharing with out-source or off-shore partners, without risking a sensitive data breach.

Sponsor: Oracle

Disaster Recovery for Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) is the Oracle best practices blueprint for implementing Oracle high availability technologies and is one of the key requirements for any Oracle Fusion Middleware enterprise deployment. Learn more in this whitepaper about the various components of MAA and what this exceptional product can do for you.

Sponsor: Oracle

Oracle Solaris on the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is the world's first and only integrated cloud machine-hardware and software engineered together to provide a "cloud in a box." It is designed to enable enterprises to bring together up to thousands of disparate, mission-critical workloads with maximum reliability, availability and security. Oracle Solaris, one of two operating system options for the Exalogic, is a key building block for this system. This paper provides a high level overview of the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and then describes the value that Oracle Solaris brings to the Oracle Exalogic offering.

Sponsor: Oracle

Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

With the growing speed of messages moving through business networks, the use of real-time processing to capture, analyze, and respond intelligently to key events has become the benchmark for corporate excellence. Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database (TimesTen) is a memory-optimized relational database. TimesTen provides real-time data management for performance critical systems deployed in the application tier to deliver blazing-fast response and real-time caching of application data from the Oracle Database to the TimesTen database. This white paper describes configuration considerations, best practices and performance results of TimesTen running on Exalogic.

Sponsor: Oracle

Running SAP NetWeaver on the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud - An Architectural Overview

SAP customers traditionally face the challenge of building up infrastructures for deploying SAP out of individual components: servers, storage, networking, etc. This introduces a high amount of complexity, risk and sub-optimal performance due to lack of integration. Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud allows IT engineers to build a highly integrated, optimized and tested solution that is ideally suited for customer needs. This document outlines the value of using SAP on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and the Oracle Exadata Database Machine and discusses architectural and practical considerations when deploying SAP on Exalogic and Exadata.

Sponsor: Oracle

    Next