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. 

This guide offers recommendations and best practices for assembling and integrating a range of hardware and software components for virtualized infrastructure. By following these guidelines, IT organizations can take full advantage of an optimized solution, and thereby realizing greater business benefits from their virtualized infrastructure. 

In this video demonstration, you'll learn how a BI solution, along with an enterprise manager, helps you ensure system availability, maximum security and the highest performance for your BI system. 

Read this case study to learn how one growing Euopean retailer was able to migrate to an architecture that could support real-time delivery of shop data to the data center for processing and real-time communication of pricing events to its shops using open source integration software. 

This podcast reaveals how employing a data warehousing and analytical appliance can provide the speed and functionality to enable CIOs and their teams to create value from big data. 

IBM InfoSphere Information Server delivers the functions required to integrate, validate, enrich and deliver trusted information for your key business initiatives. 

This Executive Brief discusses IDC's perspective on how enterprise workload management requirements are changing and highlights the ways that workload automation solutions can address these emerging requirements. 

The tech chasm that has allegedly formed in the workforce created by a cross-generational 1divide  – between those who grew-up with technology and those that didn’t – is vastly overstated. 

This paper provides technical guidance when deploying Oracle databases on VMware vSphere. 

This white paper takes an in-depth look at Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage arrays and the ways in which an effective storage solutions can help your business. 

In this podcast, introduced by independent enterprise storage expert Stephen Foskett and Oracle’s Group Manager for NAS Storage Product Management Alex North, talk about the current state of NAS storage, and point out specific technologies that Oracle is leveraging in its new ZFS NAS platform. Listen now to learn more. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s Bill Gates announcing the Trustworthy Computing initiative, and ask if it has made IT more secure. We look at what Oracle’s latest developments mean for its software users running rivals’ servers, and conclude our Buyer’s Guide to IT consumerisation. Download the issue now.