Access this white paper to learn about the developments of IBM i on Power Systems. Discover how to achieve valuable benefits like reliability, simplified installation and administration, continuing hardware innovations and much more. 

This white paper compares the performance of various hardware configurations and presents the test results. Explore new technological developments you can make use of to increase uptime, reduce maintenance, and cut cooling costs. 

<p>This white paper quantifies the benefits of leveraging virtualization to consolidate your database servers. Discover savings you can expect in hardware, maintenance, power, and cooling costs with this recommended architecture.</p> 

Your Microsoft SQL Server databases keep growing, but your storage hardware – and budget – aren’t. Check out this free trial download of powerful, easy to use backup and recovery software that gets the maximum from your current hardware – and does it all under budget. 

This paper provides recommendations and best practices for optimizing virtualization infrastructures when deploying the Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure. It covers deployment of software, hardware, storage, and network components. 

<p>Choosing the right hardware for SQL Server databases and the OLTP applications they support can be a challenging task for IT pros. Explore a new server architecture designed with OLTP workloads in mind and learn about its key features that help to improve data center efficiency.</p> 

Small and medium businesses need to support growth while wringing every ounce of value out of the investments they've already made. This paper looks at the benefits of virtualizing SQL Server databases, as well as how to get the most out of your virtual infrastructure. 

SQL Server database consolidation provides decreased costs and lessens the amount of hardware you need to store data. But those aren’t the only benefits. Read this brief white paper to learn about a consolidation strategy that is easy to deploy and use and provides a highly-available and dynamic environment for  data storage. 

This week’s Computer Weekly examines research that suggests CEOs want to invest in IT more than ever, but still see CIOs as technical experts and not business people. We review SQL Server 2012 and ask if Microsoft's database software is catching its competitors as well as concluding our Buyer's Guide to data security. 

This guide discusses three advances that can improve database server performance and when administrators in small to midsize businesses (SMBs) should consider them. 

Consolidating databases onto a private cloud is a new model for the delivery of database services. Private clouds consolidate servers, storage, operating systems, databases, and mixed workloads onto a shared hardware and software infrastructure. 

This white paper contains a sampling of real business results that organizations in a variety of industries worldwide have achieved by implementing Oracle Exadata. Read now to learn more. 

Upgrading from VMware ESX and/or ESXi 3.x to vSphere 4 successfully involves careful planning. There are hardware, software and database requirements, as well as third-party software compatibility considerations. This transcript provides guidelines for planning a successful upgrade, and walks you through a proposed upgrade path step-by-step.