This case study describes how to leverage a software solution to gain highly available virtual desktops while eliminating the high storage costs and complexity involved in replicating redundant desktop images. 

This paper describes the Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Secure Backup. The solution includes optimized architectures for deploying Oracle Secure Backup software to provide data protection for Oracle engineered systems, including Oracle Exadata, SPARC SuperCluster, and Oracle Optimized Solutions. 

Learn more about why the Oracle Database Appliance is an ideal database system for customers who value simplicity and who seek to lower the costs and the risks of deploying a highly available database solution. 

<p>This white paper examines how the versatile design of the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 along with powerful, bundled virtualization capabilities makes it an ideal platform for  consolidating  enterprise servers and workloads and  deploying multi-tiered applications with Web, database, and application components.  </p> 

The security of SQL Server database servers has become a top priority for database administrators. This article examines best practices that can be employed to secure Microsoft SQL Server 2000 databases. It provides an overview of the security model in SQL Server 2000 and discusses best practices you can employ to secure yours. 

Windows 2003 Server, its workstation cousin Windows XP, and its predecessor, Windows 2000, all bring substantial advances in both reliability and security compared to Windows NT 4.0. This briefing lays out the main security features of the Windows 2003 operating system family, and put them together into a "big picture" context. 

Download this paper by Riverbed and discover a clear 5-step approach to making sure every consolidation project is successful. 

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. 

Read this white paper to learn about a new relational database technology that helps boost performance of slow MySQL queries and helps you gain competitive platform capabilities. This system figures out how data is used in an application and pulls that data together so that your queries run faster. 

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. 

Watch this webcast now to gain insight on a new strategic extract, transform and load (ETL) tools that assist with vital tasks including data services to applications and business users. 

Find out on May 31st at 12:30 p.m. EDT how to leverage native PL/SQL support and the SQL compatibility features of the all new IBM DB2 10. The IBM architect for these highly successful features will present the current set of capabilities and recent enhancements. There also will be code level customer examples, customer results and more.