This paper provides recommendations and best practices for optimizing virtualization infrastructures when deploying the Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure. It covers deployment of software, hardware, storage, and network components. 

Real-time, global data updates have become a critical business requirement for financial-services firms. Quick reactions require near-instant access to data, risk analysis and deeper computational analysis for effective decision making. View this webcast to learn how to better manage ever-increasing data volumes and transaction rates. 

This paper is an introduction to the Oracle Optimized Solution for Lifecycle Content Management, which offers integrated content management, tiered storage, and archival1. Included is a discussion of the business needs for an integrated solution and the value of implementing such a strategy. 

This technical white paper discusses a drop-in implementation of Coherence running on Oracle's Sun servers utilizing Oracle Fusion Middleware components, most prominently WebLogic Suite. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the IT challenges facing retailers, as consumers turn increasingly to web and mobile shopping channels. Oracle president Mark Hurd talks about how the supplier intends to simplify IT infrastructures. And new government CIO Andy Nelson discusses how he plans to transform Whitehall IT. Read the issue now. 

With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle now provides Oracle Optimized Solutions: a complete applications to disk solution engineered, tested, and certified to work together as a single system. Read this white paper to learn more about Oracle Optimized Solutions and how they can be used to improve Oracle E-Business Suite operations. 

<p>This white paper examines how the versatile design of the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 along with powerful, bundled virtualization capabilities makes it an ideal platform for  consolidating  enterprise servers and workloads and  deploying multi-tiered applications with Web, database, and application components.  </p> 

Oracle Database 11g Release 2, the second release of the award winning Oracle Database 11g, provides the foundation for IT professionals to successfully deliver more information with higher quality of service, make more efficient use of their budgets, and reduce the risk of change in data centers. 

Read this case study and discover how NZ Bus, through local Oracle Certified Partner Database Integrated Solutions, became the first organization in New Zealand and one of the first in Asia-Pacific to deploy Oracle Database 11g Release 2. 

View this interactive E-Book to learn how Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) systems provide your business with an unprecedented solution that is complete, open and integrated. 

This expert e-guide features insight from quality assurance expert Lisa Crispin on the risks and benefits of outsourcing performance testing. Crispin also offers tips on different performance testing measures and discusses performance testing specialists within agile software development. 

How are SAP customers dealing with the growing complexity of their software environments? By building a testing strategy into their project planning and operations. Find out how to take advantage of testing strategy assessment services from SAP Consulting - to lower risk, reduce cost, and boost efficiency. 

This independent report from analysts, Nucleus Research offers a critical assessment of Oracle’s Cloud Services.