This white paper offers a cost-effective information management solution that optimizes storage infrastructures while also maintaining the performance and scalability that businesses require. 

The practice of data protection has evolved into a full-fledged discipline. In the last few years, it has been marked with a strong surge in innovation. Bottom line: Customers now have a lot more data protection options. Read on to learn what options you should consider for your organization. 

This e-book, penned by business intelligence expert Wayne Eckerson, will explain how big data -- the combination of Hadoop and analytical databases -- is transforming the business intelligence industry. 

On June 7, 1983, IBM released DB2, marking the birth of relational database. This 30th anniversary book begins with a section celebrating the history of DB2 and continues with an in-depth look at business value, performance enhancements and cost-saving measures, and rich hints and tips. 

This informative resource explores how SAP's HANA database can support real-time large-scale analytics projects, and why deploying HANA and other SAP apps in the cloud is beneficial for your organization. 

In this paper, learn why the database layer is so important to the software selection of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Also compare Oracle database to SQL Server databases. 

This white paper discusses the information security and compliance issues associated with Microsoft SQL Server database systems. Whether you’re a CSO, IT manager, internal auditor or database administrator, you'll learn about the database security threat, how compliance fits into the overall scheme and what you should do to minimize your risks. 

<p>This paper explains how modeling information architecture (IA) can help reduce the costs associated with data management. Read this now and learn about the benefits of implementing IA and how Sybase's option offers modeling support for database design and enterprise architecture.</p> <p> </p> 

Performance optimization is a key ingredient in the struggle to stretch an invested IT dollar to its absolute limit. Read this whitepaper to learn about the 3-step 'prevent, find, fix' approach to handling performance optimization problems at any stage of the development lifecycle. 

This paper outlines Oracle's approach to overpricing one part of a database solution to compensate for another part, leading to a much higher total cost of ownership (TCO). Read this now to learn more about the evolution of TCO, Oracle's pricing strategy, IBM's pricing strategy and so much more. 

This is a developerWorks article. This article summarizes the new pureXML capabilities, explains how they can be used, and discusses sample application scenarios. 

In this 40 minute webcast, listen to Oracle's Marie-Anne Neimat introduce the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database. Learn why people use in-memory database (it's all about low latency) and how this technology can accelerate existing Oracle Database applications as well as new applications.