Read the "Database Activity Monitoring (DAM)" chapter from "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press, 2009) and learn how to leverage DAM to prevent SQL injection attacks, monitor privileged users and track access to sensitive data. 

Businesses are turning to IT to drive down operating expenses as well as ratchet up productivity and efficiency to drive a more effective, leaner business in 2009 and beyond. IT needs to help save the business while remaining responsive, reliable, and agile, all using less investment than was previously available. Read on to learn more. 

Charles Bahr of Alcatel-Lucent Multimedia Solutions Marketing and Christophe Senot of Bell Labs demonstrate the technologies that can be combined to create a personalized content and advertising experience across any screen. 

Marcio Nespatti, Alcatel-Lucent, discusses the latest research on next generation advertising. 

Monsanto accelerates centralized Microsoft Sharepoint and reduces bandwidth expenses using Cisco WAN Optimization solution. 

Many organizations are looking into virtualization as a means of decreasing capital expenses and launching energy conservation initiatives. This paper explains why one must consider how business processes, administrative rights, capacity planning, performance monitoring, and security strategies will need to change before jumping into a deployment. 

Government agencies face costly issues with paper due to the increasing volume and wide variety of documents that enter an agency. EMC digital office solutions enable the capture of all types of paper documents, faxes, and data. Find out more. 

As services shift to IP protocols and bandwidth demands grow, Wireline Telcos and Cable MSOs alike must evolve their infrastructures to become IP centric. Read this whitepaper to learn more about the two paths service providers are taking to get to this new infrastructure and how they both end up in the same place. 

Telecom service providers have to work harder at creating new ways to generate voice services revenue as the demand for wireless grows and traditional voice services declines. This pocket E-Guide details how service providers can leverage next-gen voice services, like Fixed Mobile Convergence, to address this issue. 

This Report, which summarizes detailed data from a field study conducted exclusively for AMR Research SAP Peer Forum clients, was written to help business audiences looking for every opportunity to reduce the total business expenses of their huge, existing investments in SAP. 

Network providers must re-examine how they can speed up innovation and time to market by working with trusted partners and developer communities. However, energizing such an ecosystem takes careful planning. This podcast covers market trends driving network providers to change their relationships with application developers. 

The Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade servers help cut operating expenses through energy efficiency, product flexibility, and efficient use of data center space. When combined with Dell's world-class storage, management, and support offerings, the result is a total enterprise solution that can help you simplify and save on IT expenses. 

Deduplication is one of the few IT solutions that cuts costs quickly and improves service levels. ESG believes CIOs and IT executives should look to deduplication for cost reduction projects in their environments.