Reliability and availability, data protection, performance, and scalability are all essential characteristics of a database management system. This paper looks at each one of those characteristics in detail and offers an implementation guide for SMBs that require a highly reliable database environment. 

Application performance monitoring (APM) is skyrocketing in popularity. This Gartner Magic Quadrant can help you gain a better understanding of APM, how it can benefit your application environment and how you should go about implementing it today. Read this now and also learn about specific vendor's strengths and weaknesses and what to be aware of. 

<p>Take a look at this Gartner Magic Quadrant for an in-depth comparison of numerous employee performance management (EPM) systems. Learn about the strengths and weaknesses of each and uncover who comes out on top.</p> 

Organizations are increasingly adopting application performance management (APM) to manage business services, but many are surprised with the challenges that are accompanying the benefits. Watch this webcast to hear Gartner analyst Will Cappelli's tips and best practices for getting the most out of your APM investment through predictive analytics. 

<p>Businesses need to keep a close eye on the evolution of cloud based services to avoid wasting money and missing out on business opportunities.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> 

Gartner research director, Valdis Filks, offers tips to help businesses get to grips with escalating storage costs. 

This article from Gartner offers advice to public sector organisations thinking of deploying cloud computing and assess the progress made by governments in their use of the cloud. 

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are among the biggest challenges for enterprises and their IT organisations to navigate. Conventional leadership and management techniques often are not enough. 

With a potential economic crisis looming in the Eurozone, Gartner offers a checklist of questions that CIOs and CEOs should ask each other. 

As concerns of database security escalate, regulatory pressures increase and vendor capabilities expand, database activity monitoring is evolving beyond its original concept to a more advanced class of technologies Gartner identifies as database audit and protection (DAP) tools. View this resource to explore DAP technologies. 

Most organizations with application performance issues haven't developed the process and organization to take advantage of application delivery technologies many already own. Gartner outlines three phases to help IT organizations deliver better application performance. 

Retail, like virtually all other industries, is awash with stories about the emergence of cloud computing. Much hasbeen written about the ability to remove cost or to greatly speed up implementations.