The ever present demand to maximise the value delivered by business-critical applications requires that we optimise the use of all the resources that execute and manage them. BMC Software is one of the major vendors offering such support and has a highly regarded set of solutions collectively called BMC SQL Performance for DB2. 

This white paper reviews the common causes of application downtime and discusses Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture framework that provides clear and concise guidance on implementing best practices using Oracle's proven high availability technologies. 

This paper explores the data explosion phenomenon and why column-oriented database systems are able to provide the boost that is needed to gain the performance edge. The paper contrasts row-oriented systems with column-oriented systems, and then elaborates on the benefits of the columnar approach. 

In this podcast, Gartner analyst Avivah Litan talks about the Heartland data breach in relation to current data security trends in the retail industry. Also, a discussion with Ernst & Young's Sagi Leizerov on data privacy in the retail industry reveals common trouble spots for retailers, including managing vendors and tracking customer purchases. 

Optimizing the benefits of a data grid built with Oracle Coherence relies upon creating a modular, balanced architecture. Matching the number of application servers, memory capacity, and quantity of processing nodes to the target workload characteristics is important to achieving the best performance. 

When the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) was first introduced in SQL Server 2005, it received mixed reviews. With the launch of SQL Server 2008, Microsoft has succeeded in transforming the SSMS into a much more useful tool set. This whitepaper will list and discuss each of these improvements of SSMS 2008. 

Read the second chapter of the Cloud Computing E-Book and learn what developers should consider before moving applications to the cloud and to what extent they will have to re-think familiar go-to languages to make apps work in the cloud. 

Data quality has always been an important issue for companies, and this is even more the case today. This paper reviews current industry problems concerning data quality, and takes a detailed look at how companies are addressing quality problems with customer, product, and other types of corporate data. 

Read this case study to learn how IQMS's single source enterprise software solution EnterpriseIQ delivered significant results to a leading European plastics manufacturing company. 

Read how one of the largest banks in the southeast chose DataFlux dfPower® Studio to review and compare multiple data sources simultaneously through data quality and data integration workflows. 

Listen to this episode of "The Malware Report" to find out how California is responding to the 800 data breaches that occurred in the first five months of 2009. 

This paper helps students understand the types of information required to pass the new 640-802 CCNA composite exam by providing a convenient review of the exam's critical concepts. 

VMware offers benefits, but it can cost you extra storage, backup resources and administrative challenges. This paper reviews the best practices for architecting a backup/recovery/DR approach for VMware using Data Domain storage.