<p>Over the last several decades, database management systems have become an integral part of every corporate IT landscape. This database manageability and productivity cost comparison study provides IT decision makers with factual information to address these challenges.</p> 

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. 

Oracle Database 11g Release 2, the second release of the award winning Oracle Database 11g, provides the foundation for IT professionals to successfully deliver more information with higher quality of service, make more efficient use of their budgets, and reduce the risk of change in data centers. 

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. 

Attend this webinar to learn about Forrester's Total Economic Impact (TEI) framework and how you can use it to identify high-ROI data integration solutions for your own organization. An overview of Forrester’s DMExpress analysis, with financial results and customer interview highlights, will also be presented. 

DBAs are tasked with trying to supercharge the performance of their databases while minimizing extra costs. This expert e-guide from SearchOracle.com explains in-depth the required software and hardware that can eventually determine database performance. Also gain a holistic approach to infrastructure and database improvements. 

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. 

Conducted by the research firm ORC International, this study found that performing common database management tasks for Oracle Database 11g R2 took less time and fewer resources than performing the same tasks for DB2 Enterprise 9.7. Although funded by Oracle, the study was independently conducted by ORC. 

Read this white paper to learn more about how Oracle Advanced Compression can help you reduce the disk space and costs of managing large data volumes. 

This customer reference booklet contains a sample of real business results that organizations around the world, across a variety of industries, have achieved by upgrading and standardizing on Oracle Database 11g. 

Access this webcast to learn how IBM Enterprise Content Management capabilities (case management, content and predictive analytics, and document imaging and capture) can help reduce hospital readmissions, increase patient care and management, and lower administrative costs. 

This paper examines cloud computing models for data warehousing and the differences between public versus private clouds.