By planning for problems now, you can avoid them all together. Check out this white paper, Quick Start Guide for Oracle SOA Suite 11gR1, for an extensive look at how you can properly implement an Oracle service-oriented architecture (SOA) at your organization. 

This technical white paper is the second in a series that is designed to help map I/O best practices from the physical world into the virtual world supported by logical domains. 

This white paper discusses how Oracle Data Guard 11g redefines expectations for data protection solutions by providing the management, monitoring and automation software to create synchronized standby databases that protect data from failures, errors and corruptions. 

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. 

Most companies have pay rule environments with some complexity, such as multiple states and shift differentials or collective bargaining agreements. 

Applied Oracle Security (Oracle Press, 2010) is the definitive guide to safeguarding Oracle Database 11g written by the security experts in Oracle’s National Security Group. This complementary chapter on auditing covers how to audit database activity efficiently, improve security, address regulatory requirements, and automate compliance reporting. 

Automation is sometimes seen as a cure-all for IT departments looking to cut costs, but IT pros who implement this technology need to be sure they apply it correctly to really save money. This e-guide from SearchDataCenter.com, explores which mistakes are common when it comes to implementing automation. 

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. 

Automating data center processes may seem like a cure for tight IT budgets, but if you implement it incorrectly you risk incurring extra costs. Access this expert e-guide to find out how to overcome the top five common automation errors made when automating IT tasks, plus more. 

Managing multiple platforms for servers, storage, operating systems and network bandwidth is costly, inefficient and prone to errors. 

Check out this SearchDataBackup.com FAQ Guide to learn the challenges of backing up Hyper-V virtualized servers and the differences between backing up Hyper-V and VMware servers. 

Whether your organization's service-oriented architecture (SOA) has 50 services being used by one customer, or 50 customers using one service, you need SOA governance; increased business agility depends on it. 

This paper outlines the ten most common errors that prevent successful execution of the commissioning process.