In the technical brief, John Weathington, President and CEO of Excellent Management Systems, Inc., explores the power of Toad 10 for Oracle, and discusses its top enhancements, including: enhanced usability, powerful automation, unicode support, and much more! 

Even though some network servers look very much like the standalone computers that fill your of¬fice, they play a very different role in your business than desktop PCs do, and therefore their design is very different under the hood. Take a tour of the components that give a server the power it needs to handle your tough workload. 

In the age of tighter budgets and continuing data growth, storage administrators are facing an ever increasing challenge of aligning storage resources with the demands of business applications. Read this IDC paper for information on how to implement effective storage efficiency practices. 

In this Podcast, backup expert, Mark Bowker, addresses how this technology helps leverage your storage, network, and computing resources. 

This white paper provides an overview for deploying SQL Server in a virtualized environment for VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4 (U4) running on the latest PowerEdge M610 and M710 blade servers and EqualLogic PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays. 

This paper reviews e-discovery scenarios where Legal and IT must be a united front; understanding both sets of requirements and responsibilities, managing the e-discovery process, and action steps for Legal and IT to ensure regulatory compliance and reduced costs and risk of e-discovery. 

Data de-duplication has been described as the next evolutionary step in backup technology. Many vendors lay claim to the best data de-duplication approach, leaving customers to face the difficulty of separating hype from reality. This document provides the background information required to make an informed data de-duplication purchasing decision. 

This paper describes an innovative, unified data protection model – developed by Syncsort – that not only supports each of these imperatives, but leverages them to provide actual return on your business investments. 

Priceline.com purchased and deployed six 3PAR InServ S400 tiered storage arrays across multiple locations to consolidate and protect all mission-critical and SAN-resident data, including core demand collection and offer processing Oracle® databases. 

This paper describes how continuous data protection (CDP) technology can bridge various DR methodologies to help organizations overcome the challenges of tape and achieve maximum benefits from their IT investments. 

While trying to predict an outage is impossible, being prepared for one is not. Having the right tools in place to respond to a "disaster" is essential to sustaining a successful organization. A business-continuity / disaster-recovery plan can help you cut costs by avoiding downtime, lost revenue and dissatisfied customers. 

Data de-duplication eliminates redundant data, saving valuable storage space, also it may be deployed via hardware- or software-based approaches-each having advantages and trade-offs.