Databases White Papers

Measuring the Business Value of CI in the Data Center

One of the key strategies that IT teams are pursuing to reduce capital costs while boosting asset utilization and employee productivity is the transition to highly virtualized data centers. However, IDC finds that expectations for further boosts in IT asset use and operational efficiency often surpass the actual results for a variety of reasons. These problems can quickly overwhelm any hoped-for benefits as the scope of virtual server deployment expands.

HP, a global provider of IT solutions and an early innovator in converged infrastructure systems, provides a complete portfolio of hardware, software, and services for enabling greater/faster deployment of converged infrastructure solutions in data center environments. More important, HP is also delivering the advanced orchestration management software that will make it possible for IT organizations to effectively obtain the maximum business value from these investments.

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Sponsor: HP & Intel

The Different Types of UPS Systems

There is much confusion in the marketplace about the different types of UPS systems and their characteristics. Each of these UPS types is defined, practical applications of each are discussed, and advantages and disadvantages are listed. With this information, an educated decision can be made as to the appropriate UPS topology for a given need.

Sponsor: APC

SAS High Performance Analytics

High-performance analytics transform complex jobs that routinely take hours or days and distribute the work over highly scalable and cost-effective processors to reduce the time to analyze billion of records of data, with hundreds of input variables. This paper explains how you can shrink decision times from days to seconds to quickly respond to changing business conditions.

Sponsor: SAS

Drive Your Business with Predictive Analytics

Predictive analytics has the power to significantly improve the bottom line. From better targeting and risk assessment to streamlining operations and optimizing business decisions in all areas, predictive analytics is the next big step toward gaining a competitive edge.

Sponsor: SAS

The Analytical SMB: More Data, More Users, Less Time

Small to midsize businesses (SMBs) are increasingly leveraging business intelligence and analytical ideologies to boost the quality of their decisions. This Aberdeen Research Brief examines the key trends in business analytics and the tangible business impact effective analytics can have for SMBs.

Sponsor: SAS

Enabling the Analytic Organization

Data is today's most competitive weapon. But how does an organization make the best use of the business data it gathers and generates? Who should drive analytic IT initiatives and how do you get management to embrace these projects? Download this white paper to see how organizations can exploit their data resources effectively for a more competitive future.

Sponsor: SAS

The Current State of Business Analytics: Where Do We Go From Here?

According to a 2011 study by Bloomberg Businessweek, the use of business analytics is up 90% from two year ago at organizations with revenue of more than $100 million, but roadblocks remain. Read all research findings and learn where business analytics is delivering the most value, how it is saving money and tips to overcome stalled adoption.

Sponsor: SAS

Big Data: Harnessing a Game Changing Asset

Companies that master the discipline of big data management can reap significant rewards and, on average, enjoy a 6% boost in productivity. The Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a survey of 586 executives to analyze big data management best practices, along with the organizational characteristics of businesses that are adept at extracting value from data.

Sponsor: SAS

Best Practices for Implementing a Data Warehouse on Oracle Exadata

Increasingly companies are recognizing the value of an enterprise data warehouse (EDW). A true EDW provides a single 360-degree view of the business and a powerful platform for a wide spectrum of business intelligence tasks ranging from predictive analysis to near real-time strategic and tactical decision support throughout the organization. Ensuring the EDW will get the desired performance and will scale out as your data grows you need to get three fundamental things correct, the hardware configuration, the physical data model and the data loading process. By correctly designing these three corner stones you will be able to create an EDW that can seamlessly scale without constant tuning or tweaking of the system.

By using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as your data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Sponsor: Oracle

Oracle: Big Data for the Enterprise

Analyzing new and diverse digital data streams can reveal new sources of economic value, provide fresh insights into customer behavior and identify market trends early on. But managing this influx of new data can be a challenge. To derive real business value from big data, you need the right tools to ca! pture and organize a wide variety of data types from different sources, and be able to easily analyze it with your enterprise data. By using the Oracle Big Data Appliance with Oracle Exadata, enterprises can acquire, organize and analyze all their enterprise data to make the most informed decisions.

Sponsor: Oracle

Oracle Database 11g Product Family

By deploying Oracle Database 11g within their IT architecture, organizations can leverage the power of the world's leading database to reduce their server and storage costs and improve quality of service. 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.

Sponsor: Oracle

Oracle Real Application Testing 11g Release 2

This white paper provides a technical overview of Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 2 with an emphasis on the features and functionality that can be implemented to provide the highest availability and scalability for your enterprise applications.

Sponsor: Oracle

Backup and Recovery Performance and Best Practices for Exadata Cell and the Sun Oracle Database Machine

The Sun Oracle Database Machine is an easy to deploy, out-of-the-box solution for hosting the oracle Database and delivers the highest levels of performance available. It is a "grid in a box" that is composed of database servers running Oracle Database, Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Servers (Exadata), an InfiniBand fabric for storage networking, and all the other components required to host an Oracle Database. Exadata delivers outstanding I/O and SQL processing performance for online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing (DW), and consolidation of mixed workloads. One of the key operational aspects of deploying a Sun Oracle Database Machine is to ensure that database backups are performed and restoration of the Oracle Database is possible if disaster strikes. This paper describes the best practices for setting up the optimal backup and recovery strategy to protect your mission-critical data.

Sponsor: Oracle

Benefits of Application Rationalization: Reduce Costs and Improve Service with a Systematic Approach

In this whitepaper, learn about the benefits and challenges of getting an application rationalization effort started and implementing a strategic plan to quickly demonstrate results.

Sponsor: Oracle

Positioning the CIO as a Powerful Business Partner with IT Portfolio Governance

In this whitepaper, learn how you can become a visionary portfolio manager and transform IT into a streamlined revenue and profit center.

Sponsor: Oracle

Why Projects Fail: Avoiding the Classic Pitfalls

Executing critical projects successfully is a key business requirement. This whitepaper discusses key strategies to avoid common project pitfalls, helping your enterprise successfully navigate challenges and better position projects for success.

Sponsor: Oracle