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. 

This document presents a reference architecture and additional controls needed to address the three cloud challenges to achieve PCI compliance. 

Download the Open Group Service-Oriented Architecture reference architecture. 

Download the Service-Oriented Cloud Computing Infrastructure (SOCCI) Framework from the Open Group. 

Introducing the Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 Server. Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are highly reliable, easy-to-manage, vertically scalable systems with all the benefits of traditional mainframes—without the associated cost, complexity, or vendor lock-in. 

<p>Read this white paper to uncover exactly what sets Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform apart from other vendors. Gain an in-depth overview of the product and how it has evolved to become a marketplace leader.  Weigh the pros and cons of a Red Hat investment and decide if it's the right move for you.</p> 

Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000, Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000, Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000, and Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 servers are highly reliable, easy- to-manage, vertically scalable systems with many of the benefits of traditional mainframes—without the associated cost, complexity, or vendor exclusivity. 

This white paper describes numerous shortcomings with Itanium-based platforms, and notes that the Itanium "ecosystem" is in danger of collapse. Forward-looking CIOs should consider x86, POWER and mainframe architectures. 

In this session, co-author of the book "Enterprise Integration Patterns" Gregor Hohpe shares some of the “behind the scenes” story of how the included enterprise application integration and message-oriented middleware design patterns originated, how they are being applied, and what other patterns he would like to see documented. 

Cisco, Red Hat, and Intel have partnered in delivery a three-part webinar focusing on the path to cloud enablement.  We start the discussion with legacy migration touching on RISC/UNIX migrations and the economic and performance benefits of the Cisco Unified Computing System utilizing the new Intel E7 processors. 

This IDC study assesses the capabilities of business process platform vendors to support midrange to complex process improvement scenarios. 

This resource explores a vendor neutral enterprise archive solution that addresses the size and scale of a small or medium hospital’s enterprise storage requirements. 

Over the course of 2010 and 2011, Forrester Research spoke to hundreds of customers about their enterprise service bus (ESB) activities, and conducted briefings and demonstration reviews as well as over twenty customer interviews to evaluate five commercial and four open source ESB product vendors. Access this paper to examine Forrester's findings.