This product profile describes the challenges of training the next generation of mainframe specialists. Discover a tool that can ease mainframe management and explore its key features. 

Through this expert e-brief uncover the answers to your top mainframe questions, including: the benefits of staying with a mainframe, what approaches are easiest when moving data or applications, how to move off the mainframe in a way that is least disruptive to the business, and more. 

Learn about the intelligent software in the Oracle Exadata Storage Server that accelerates database query processing by offloading database query processing to the storage layer. 

<p>This special nine-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing IBM, its financial performance, the services it offers.</p> 

In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchDataCenter.com and BMC, you will discover best practices for comprehensive and cost-effective mainframe management, maintenance and upgrading. Explore cost-effective mainframe upgrades and gain insight into approaches essential for adding flexibility to today's mainframe applications. 

Typically, the IT operations team's main focus is on maximizing availability and performance of servers. And many times they ignore the need for security, assuming that added security software will affect performance, leaving servers completely vulnerable. This brief explores the need for IT operations teams to address security and risk management. 

Sign up today for this valuable webcast to learn how integrated Web-to-mainframe performance management can help you achieve higher levels of availability, performance and customer success rates. 

Are your decision-support systems and servers up to date, equipped to handle today's onslaught of data? Legacy systems are no longer viable. This paper explores the results of a research report about decision-support systems, highlighting how Dell's 12th-generation servers and solutions meet these evolving requirements based on users' responses. 

Are you going to upgrade to SQL Server 2012? This edition of SQL Server Insider sets out to help you decide whether the investment is worth it or not. Read this edition to learn if several IT pros are going to upgrade and why, how this release will affect the database marketplace and pros and cons of actually upgrading. 

This white paper outlines the current marketplace for UNIX systems on specialized architectures, outlining the challenges faced by CIOs who need a reliable vendor for their mission-critical data center. It examines the features and strengths of IBM's AIX on POWER7. 

<p>In this presentation transcript, join representatives from American Tire Distributors and EMC Corporation as they present the results they've achieved by virtualizing their Oracle environments.</p> 

Enterprises of all sizes are deploying or considering deploying blade systems as a way to consolidate resources and lower their total cost of ownership. Read this white paper to learn about the total cost of ownership (TCO) for the Dell PowerEdge servers. 

Successful execution of an SOA strategy, combined with the release of the business value contained in legacy systems, can bring five proven benefits to the enterprise. Functioning as both a software development environment and a delivery framework, SOA provides a mechanism for defining business services and operating models.