This white paper provides a technical overview of Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 2 with an emphasis on the features and functionality that can be implemented to provide the highest availability and scalability for your enterprise applications. 

This white paper explores the need for uptime, explains the three components that contribute to uptime, reviews some of the problems with existing enterprise server management, provides a clear definition of clustering, and finally gives an honest explanation of what it can and can’t offer your organization. 

This white paper reviews proof points and best practices for file sharing disaster recovery. 

This paper, the third in a series on enterprise data integration, examines how "connection-weighted load balancing" provides fast, reliable, highly available cluster processing. 

Dynamic routing architecture (DRA) provides functionality over and above that of clustering architecture that optimizes communications in many distributed application topologies. Watch this webcast to discover how DRA provides the unmatched high-availability and administrative transparency and efficiency you need. 

Read this paper to find out how dynamic routing architecture (DRA) optimizes communications beyond clustering in complex, distributed topologies to enable easier scaling and greater agility in changing the IT environment to meet changing business needs and market conditions. 

Oracle introduces the new Sun Fire X4170 M2, the most versatile IT infrastructure building block server and the Sun Fire X4270 M2 server, the ideal server for clustered database and virtualized workloads. 

TGen has been a pioneer in the cluster computing industry for over 5 years. By deploying the DDN EXAScaler, TGen eliminated I/O bottlenecks and now fully has in place a storage solution for today’s and tomorrows’ sequence alignment. Read this case study to learn more. 

The cost and time associated with managing desktops is rising at a time when budgets are being tightened and IT staffing is strained. This is driving interest in the use of desktop virtualization, where virtual desktop machines run on servers within the data center. Access this white paper to learn more about the benefits of desktop virtualization. 

This paper examines that many organizations want to take advantage of the speed, security, reliability, and flexibility of Windows 7, and how it is possible to minimize interface shock for users by leveraging Group Policy to make Windows 7 look more like Windows XP. 

Microsoft is targeting close to zero downtime with SQL 2008 with availability and recovery features that only used to be available via third-party solutions. This white paper discusses the evolution of High-availability from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008, and the tools available to minimize downtime in the Enterprise. 

Many companies have turned to virtualization technologies for their servers and in their data centers to simplify administration and to reduce management chores and operating costs while maintaining reliability and safeguarding against disasters. Companies are now looking to apply the same technology to their desktop computers.