Best Practices for Backing Up VMware® with Veritas NetBackup™

(Source: Symantec) VMware® is used by enterprises large and small to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of their IT operations. With this in mind, Symantec has engineered innovative, award-winning data protection solutions designed specifically for VMware environments. Download this white paper and discover best practices for designing solutions for and protecting VMware virtual machines.

Virtualize Servers with Microsoft Hyper-V and NetApp

(Source: NetApp) Learn how NetApp technologies help provide data protection, disaster recovery, deduplication, thin provisioning, and efficient cloning for faster virtual server provisioning when using Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization solutions.

Innovate Faster with Oracle Database 11g

(Source: Oracle) Over the past 30 years Oracle has delivered virtually every noteworthy innovation that exists today in the area of database and information management. These innovations are not only for the benefit of very large organizations, but for every organization that plans to grow and change. Oracle 11g innovations for information consolidation, performance & scalability, and change management continue the Oracle drive toward a low-cost and agile information infrastructure.

Oracle Database 11g: Real Application Testing & Manageability Overview

(Source: Oracle) Designed for data center environments that are rapidly evolving and changing to keep up with the demands of the business, Oracle Database 11g allows businesses to adopt new technologies quickly while minimizing risk. In addition, building on its self-managing capabilities, Oracle Database 11g has made significant advances in the areas of manageability and fault diagnostics.

Oracle Data Guard 11g The Next Era in Data Protection and Availability

(Source: Oracle) Efficient business operations, high quality customer service, conformance with government regulations, and safeguarding corporate information assets all depend upon achieving the highest possible level of data protection and availability. Thus it is no surprise that data protection and availability are among the top priorities of business continuity initiatives for companies of all sizes and industries.

Keep Them Separated

(Source: Oracle) Today's enterprises can't afford to adopt a laissez-faire attitude toward database access and administration privileges. Between the dangers of a high-profile breach and ever-increasing regulatory compliance burdens, companies must impose strict controls on their databases, starting with thorough separation of duties and encompassing comprehensive reporting and audit management. Oracle provides these functions in its easy-to-use and non-intrusive Database Vault and Audit Vault products, ensuring that sensitive data is protected from unauthorized activities and that audit data is captured, stored, and presented accurately.

Creating Predictable IT Strategies in an Unpredictable Business Climate

(Source: NEC) Typical IT approaches to meet business needs have focused on fast-deployment, capital-intensive infrastructure investments. In economic downturns, this approach is unsustainable. Download this report for IDC's perspective on major shifts in IT investment strategy focusing on efficiency to achieve IT excellence.

Always-on Windows® Server - Mission Impossible? Think Again.

(Source: NEC) ORCC is a leading technology provider of web-based financial services serving 12 million end-users with 200 million transactions representing $100 billion in payments annually. This case study explores how ORCC implemented an "always-on" server solution that delivered optimal performance, scalability, and mainframe-class availability.

500% Improvement in Data Processing!

(Source: NEC) Revenue Management Solutions (RMS) has one of the largest Microsoft® SQL database in the world - totaling over 50 billion records. Read how consolidating on NEC's Itanium Servers helped RMS achieve 500% performance gain in data processing and reduced report wait time from months to days.

Inventory Management Clustering System on JBoss Enterprise Middleware

(Source: Red Hat) A large retail organization used Dell and JBoss to develop and implement an interactive inventory management system for a variety of devices - point-of-sale, mobile handheld, and back-office server. Download this white paper today and learn how it was implemented, and how JBoss facilitates the addition of Enterprise features like persistence, clustering and custom data synchronization framework.

Bad Broker Data is Bad for Business

(Source: Kalido) Without good data about your insurance brokers and the policies they sell, you're operating at a huge financial disadvantage.  This brief explains how the Kalido solution for Broker Data Governance can lead to better information, better decisions, and fully validated data for regulatory reporting - all of critical importance to your organization.

Business Data You Can Believe In

(Source: Kalido) Bad data - and a lack of good data management practices - can cost your business millions of dollars every year. This white paper reviews the common causes of bad data and, most importantly, how organizations are increasing revenue, decreasing costs and mitigating risk with a Data Governance program.

Employee Web Use and Misuse

(Source: MessageLabs) There is a balance between monitoring and blocking web use in the workplace. IT Managers need to determine the best way to deal with employee internet access while keeping the overall good of the business a priority. Download this whitepaper to help make an informed decision about your own web monitoring requirements .

Email Security Buyer's Guide

(Source: MessageLabs) Is your existing email security in need of review? Spam, viruses and other forms of malware pose a serious threat to your business. With so many email security options on the market, it's hard to choose the right solution for your business. Learn about your options in this new Buyer's Guide!

Critical Data Protection

(Source: MessageLabs) New laws and compliance regulations require businesses to encrypt email communications that contain certain confidential and personal information. There are significant risks associated with an email security breach and the impact an inadvertent data leakage could have on your business could be devastating. Learn how a hosted email encryption solution with policy based enforcement will ensure your company stays compliant and protects your customers' critical data.

MarketVibe: The State of Data Governance in Enterprises Today

(Source: IDG) In December 2008, Computerworld invited IT and line-of-business leaders to participate in a survey on data issues within their organizations. The goal of the survey was to gain a better understanding of the data issues that organizations are facing today, which groups have responsibility for maintaining the accuracy of this data, and the impact of these data issues on business initiatives. The survey was commissioned by Kalido, but data was gathered and tabulated independently by Computerworld and IDG Research Services.

Best Practices for Symantec NetBackup (NBU) Design

(Source: Data Domain) Standard practices and conventional technologies are being pushed to their limits in many backup environments. Data Domain deduplication storage solutions for Symantec NetBackup (NBU) helps customers efficiently manage the ever-increasing amount of backup and archive data. This white paper walks you through how Data Domain integrates with NBU, including planning and sizing considerations, operational considerations, offsite replication, and other integration basics so you can get the most out of this powerful solution.

Data Domain for Symantec OpenStorage Primer

(Source: Data Domain) The Data Domain OpenStorage solution for Symantec NetBackup advances the ability to use disk as disk by eliminating the need to emulate tape drives, tape cartridges and robots. Customers can store more data on disk with inline deduplication, and the creation of backup copies is simplified using optimized duplication. This technical primer introduces OpenStorage and presents example use cases that address a variety of data protection challenges.

Best practices for a Data Warehouse on Oracle Database 11g

(Source: Oracle) 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. To ensure the EDW will get the optimal performance you need to get three fundamental things correct, the hardware configuration, the data model and the data loading process. With these three corner stones correct you can seamlessly scale out your EDW.

Oracle Database 11g High Availability

(Source: Oracle) This paper will review the common causes of application downtime and discuss how technologies available in the Oracle Database can help avoid costly downtime and enable rapid recovery from unavoidable failures. Learn about new technologies introduced in Oracle Database 11g that enable businesses to make their IT infrastructure even more robust and fault tolerant and maximize their ROI on High Availability infrastructure.

Top 10 Reasons to Migrate to WS08 Get this white paper now! (Source: Dell) New virtualization tools, Web technologies, and security enhancements help save time and reduce costs, and provide you with high availability and increased flexibility for your changing business needs. Central to IT simplification is streamlining maintenance and maximizing availability - and by running Windows Server 2008 on Dell servers, you can do both. Download this White Paper

Success Story: New York City Transit Download this new white paper today! (Source: Novell) One of the top priorities of New York City Transit is to ensure that its employees have secure and timely access to information. With a Novell? solution, the agency has automated identity management for 85,000 users, giving 49,000 employees secure, single sign-on to applications and providing 36,000 retirees with online access to benefit information. Download this White Paper