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. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s Bill Gates announcing the Trustworthy Computing initiative, and ask if it has made IT more secure. We look at what Oracle’s latest developments mean for its software users running rivals’ servers, and conclude our Buyer’s Guide to IT consumerisation. Download the issue now. 

This paper explains how Oracle's Sun Unified Storage product line is an innovative, cost-effective, and easily managed solution that addresses many of your data storage challenges. Learn more about conquering the data storage challenges in your organization with Unified Storage For Dummies, Oracle's Special Edition. 

Tiered storage can help alleviate data management burdens as well as provide operational efficiencies and cost savings. Watch this webcast and find out how Oracle's extensive range of Flash, disk, and tape storage solutions can help you. 

Exponential data growth is challenging today's IT managers to scale their storage capacity while delivering high performance and staying within tight budgets. This paper explains how Oracle can help by offering the first unified storage solution that optimizes performance with HSPs and delivers radical simplification of storage management. 

IT pros anticipate big gains from an integrated SOA suite that includes pre-integration with BPM technology. The top benefit: the ability to strategically align information technology with an enterprise’s business mission. Learn how global enterprises have achieved this goal thanks to Oracle’s fully integrated SOA product line. 

Read this research report to discover the results of comparison testing between two database management systems - Oracle Database Appliance and Microsoft SQL Server - in terms of the productivity and cost-efficiency differences. 

In this podcast, industry experts discuss how investment in three critical areas - the applications themselves, tools and technologies to deliver the integration, and pre-built integration accelerators - is integral when tackling the most complex of application integration challenges. 

Find out how mainframe rehosting lets IT professionals spend more time and money on development rather than on maintaining aging systems. This free whitepaper explains how you can unlock the value of key business logic for integration and reuse and therefore create a more innovative IT environment. 

As e-commerce continues to grow, customer expectations for B2B e-commerce are changing rapidly. Business to business (B2B) companies that wish to grow and become more profitable are realizing that the old ways of doing business are insufficient and are investing in e-commerce platforms. 

UNT needed to deploy a new SAN that could meet the performance, ease-of-management, and cost requirements. In the search for the right solution, they went through an extensive cost of ownership analysis of the competing vendors. Read this Case Study to learn more about the solution they found. 

With virtualization and its ability to install multiple operating systems (OSs) and run them independently on a single server, IT can effectively consolidate hundreds of servers while optimizing resources and simplifying the infrastructure. Read this paper to find out so much more.