This paper explains how data center efficiency can be measured, evaluated, and modeled, including a comparison of the benefits of periodic assessment vs. continuous monitoring. 

Storage consolidation enables organizations to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and simplify management. But how does an organization ensure that consolidation does not cause performance issues? To avoid performance utilization problems administrators should provision storage so that loads are balanced across resources evenly. 

BI empowers companies with the ability to offer products and services at the lowest cost and with the greatest amount of efficiency and productivity possible- while returning the highest revenues and profits. Learn how BI can help you to establish a culture of measurement and begin a powerful cycle of continued improvement within your organization. 

Discover how to efficiently measure projected business value, increase the ROI of your SAP investments, and improve the overall worth of your IT initiative with a consistent methodology for both business and IT users. 

This white paper discusses how one of the world’s premiere science companies leveraged an advanced cloud platform for its high-performance computing cloud.  Learn how this allowed them to improve performance, memory capacity and virtualization capabilities for their critical applications.    

BY relying on a comprehensive set of organizational capabilities, top performing companies are able to plan, implement, and manage their BI strategies more efficiently, ultimately leading to a lower cost per user, and a higher return on their BI investment. 

This paper examines that while the global economic recession of recent years has largely been replaced by a lethargic recovery, many workers continue to be impacted by job loss, reduction insalary and benefits, or job change. 

View this E-Book to learn how the leading database solution can lower your costs of database management and dramatically simplify your overall IT software portfolio. 

This white paper presents a thorough understanding of what overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is, how it works, and the countless benefits that result from its use. Also discover tools that enable you to accurately measure OEE so you have a clear picture of how it's improving your process efficiencies. 

This white paper presents two case studies that illustrate how Oracle Exadata increased storage capacity for data warehouses by 150%, reduced operational and database running costs by 50% and on average improved database query performance by 10 times. 

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As you think about an upgrade or refresh, it is critical that you think first and foremost about your most mission-critical applications and what you will need to consider in order to not only ensure their continuity, but to improve their performance, flexibility and scalability.