Applied Oracle Security (Oracle Press, 2010) is the definitive guide to safeguarding Oracle Database 11g written by the security experts in Oracle’s National Security Group. This complementary chapter on auditing covers how to audit database activity efficiently, improve security, address regulatory requirements, and automate compliance reporting. 

This week’s Computer Weekly kicks off our Buyer's Guide to private cloud. It also contains our RSA conference coverage of the latest IT security trends and the future for Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative. And we discuss the role of apprenticeships in encouraging more young people to work in IT. 

A key part of making a successful transition to cloud and virtualization is your storage infrastructure, and more and more organizations are looking to unified storage solutions to facilitate that approach. This white paper explores the best practices for implementing unified storage. 

Consolidation, outsourcing and cloud computing are just a few of the business initiatives driving IT organizations to focus on data security. Companies have moved beyond securing the network perimeter and made strengthening security controls around data a top priority. Read this whitepaper to learn more. 

In this expert resource, find answers to six of your most pressing compliance and audit questions concerning fixed assets, financial reporting standards, tax filing, and more. 

By planning for problems now, you can avoid them all together. Check out this white paper, Quick Start Guide for Oracle SOA Suite 11gR1, for an extensive look at how you can properly implement an Oracle service-oriented architecture (SOA) at your organization. 

Oracle’s Sun Blade 6000 Modular System was designed from the ground up to deliver far greater efficiency than a corresponding set of rack-mount servers. Read this white paper to find out why organizations everywhere are considering blade systems a part of a winning strategy in the battle for space, power, and cooling. 

Data management technology is on the verge of a new era – and users who commit to its architectural innovations earlier will gain disproportionate rewards in performance, scalability, flexibility and cost. Read this white paper for a description of Oracle’s Exadata V2 solution, also known as the Sun Oracle Database Machine. 

This white paper discusses the procedures for upgrading your Oracle database,— particularly focusing on using Oracle’s real-time data integration software, Oracle GoldenGate— along with the results of such upgrades. 

Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage software is the key ingredient that enables Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances to deliver unmatched simplicity, ease-of-use, increased storage efficiency and industry leading price and performance. The software includes a rich set of data services, all of which are bundled with Sun ZFS Storage Appliances. 

This paper shows the value of combining Oracle software with Intel Xeon processors on Dell PowerEdge servers. It begins with an overview of the collaboration that created these synergies, before detailing the major areas where they are manifest to end-customers: intelligent performance, automated energy efficiency, and flexible virtualization. 

<p>Over the last several decades, database management systems have become an integral part of every corporate IT landscape. This database manageability and productivity cost comparison study provides IT decision makers with factual information to address these challenges.</p> 

This white paper explores the latest virtualization capabilities, and offers recommendations on how to combine virtualization technologies for enterprise deployments.