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. 

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. 

This paper is an introduction to the concept of tiered storage, the business needs that drive it and the value of implementing a tiered storage strategy. This strategy helps realize the value of information, drives down costs, lowers risks, improves accessibility, ensures the correct information is saved and so much more. 

This technical brief explains how you can prove the identity of the other party in an e-transaction or exchange of information and also describes why Quest’s Defender is an excellent solution to help you accomplish this. 

This expert e-guide outlines strategies for combining virtual server backup methods with traditional approaches for a more comprehensive VM backup system. Discover tips that will protect your virtual environment at no extra cost. 

While data warehouses are important for many types of analytical systems, they aren’t always necessary. Building a data warehouse can dramatically increase the cost of a BI project. This paper describes data warehouses, along with many other options for placing relevant, timely information in the hands of business users. 

This white paper looks at traditional backup and recovery methods and why they do not work well in virtual environments, as well as the new backup and recovery methods that were developed specifically for virtualization. 

This paper provides a detailed overview of EMC's data protection and disaster recovery solution for virtualized Oracle environments. 

Read this white paper to get an overview of the Oracle Database family of products and learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. 

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. 

The Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is designed for maximum performance and reliability. Read this white paper to learn how most applications will experience a significant performance improvement if you choose to leverage this system. 

In this white paper learn about Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, the world’s first and only integrated middleware machine, dramatically surpasses alternatives and provides enterprises the best possible foundation for running applications.