This guide reviews the recommended approach for planning and implementing the migration of applications on an IBM Power system running AIX to Oracle’s Sun Fire X4800 Server with the Intel Xeon Processor 7560 running Oracle Linux 5.5 Operating System. 

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. 

Applied Oracle Security (Oracle Press, 2010) is the definitive guide to safeguarding Oracle Database 11g written by the security experts in Oracle’s National Security Group. This complementary chapter on auditing covers how to audit database activity efficiently, improve security, address regulatory requirements, and automate compliance reporting. 

This paper outlines the Oracle SOA Maturity Model and explains how the model is used to accelerate SOA adoption by identifying specific capabilities that are either completely lacking or which are lagging with respect to the other capabilities necessary for successful SOA adoption. 

This document focuses on key Oracle Database 11g capabilities that help IT departments better optimize their storage infrastructure, enabling administrators to deliver a cost effective, scalable information management platform that is easy to manage, and that continues to deliver the performance and availability that today's businesses require. 

This document is intended as a technical guide for developers and system administrators that want to understand the precise details of how Oracle Solaris and the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 and 7500 series can improve your application solution environment. 

As the benefits become increasingly evident, more companies are choosing to upgrade their Oracle applications within the next two years. In this e-guide find out exactly what new features are persuading IT pros to take on an upgrade initiative and how they’re approaching the process. 

This e-tip analyzes Oracle Database bottlenecks and what IT and database administrators can do if performance lags. 

This paper provides an introductory overview of some of the enterprise backup options available for Oracle data. 

E-sellers must personalize their customer interactions. Recent studies show that personalization is a highly effective method for increasing consumer lifetime value for online sellers. It can have a direct and positive impact on the core metrics that make up e-commerce success: loyalty, conversion, retention, and average order size. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude talks about releasing government datasets to the public and why open data will drive the next industrial revolution. We also review the latest test version of Windows 8 and see how it shapes up for tablet computers and business users and much more.