Exadata is Oracle’s fastest growing new product. Much of the growth of Exadata has come at the expense of specialized data warehouse appliance vendors. These vendors have published competitive comparisons to Exadata. Continue reading the learn more. 

Modern applications are data-intensive; delivering data the old way using monolithic databases isn’t working. What’s needed is a modern approach to data that scales-out as needed and delivers predictable high performance without sacrificing data consistency or integrity. View this webcast to learn best practices for modern data management. 

There is no question that the successful implementation of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) relies on a careful and holistic approach to business planning. One of the most important tools in the evaluation, purchase, and ongoing use of SOA is this body of best practices that vendors, consultants, and customers have compiled. 

<p>It is becoming increasingly difficult for IT professionals to manage the substantial amount of information their enterprises are generating today. This white paper discusses how to combat this challenge with a converged infrastructure. Discover a system that can help you leverage this strategy and review the benefits it offers.</p> 

This white paper describes the principles for building BPM solutions that use governed services, and covers the role and value of SOA in BPM, common stumbling blocks in BPM based on SOA, the value of SOA governance in successful BPM programs and more. 

Explosive data growth is causing storage costs to skyrocket, which is forcing IT organizations to look for more cost-effective archival and backup solutions. Oracle's StorageTek tape product family has maintained a market leadership position for many years and now includes the world's fastest and highest capacity tape drive. 

Featuring the results of an in-depth survey of over 300 IT professionals, this ESG white paper outlines current trends in storage resources - specifically, the adoption of scale-out architectures - as well as planning, current challenges and more. Read on for an in-depth look at the most prominent storage trends today. 

For your IT organization to keep pace with the business, you need a new, faster approach to infrastructure deployment—an approach that increases agility and accelerates time to application value. That’s HP Converged Systems. 

Although it is not new technology, service-oriented architectures (SOAs) continue to be loved, for their modern and agile approach to development, and loathed for their extended deployment times and often high costs. Read this white paper to learn the secret behind being able to benefit from SOAs instead of getting caught up in high costs and risk. 

<p>This white paper examines frequently cited obstacles to virtualization adoption. Learn how to simplify the virtualization deployment process by installing a pre-built and pre-assembled framework for your virtual infrastructure.</p> 

Today’s data center networks must be able to support tomorrow’s on-demand, virtualized IT environments. Discover how you can leverage a unified, virtualization-optimized infrastructure to meet escalating bandwidth and performance demands, security needs and more. 

As threats to Web applications continue to grow, IBM offers Web application security for a smarter planet—integrated, end-to-end security to build secure Web applications, run secure Web applications and protect SOA environments.