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. 

This guide offers recommendations and best practices for assembling and integrating a range of hardware and software components for virtualized infrastructure. By following these guidelines, IT organizations can take full advantage of an optimized solution, and thereby realizing greater business benefits from their virtualized infrastructure. 

Forward error correction (FEC) technology protects against network packet loss. Content delivery solutions using FEC have numerous user experience and cost advantages. This paper provides a technical overview of RaptorQ, the best available application-layer FEC technology. 

This white paper explores the butterfly effect of poor data quality on CRM, ERP, billing, data warehouse, and other enterprise systems. 

Keeping up with a quickly expanding business is difficult if you do not have the right tools. Read on to learn how Cricket Communications handled its growing business' operations with an enterprise application, data and operational management system. 

Microsoft is targeting close to zero downtime with SQL 2008 with availability and recovery features that only used to be available via third-party solutions. This white paper discusses the evolution of High-availability from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008, and the tools available to minimize downtime in the Enterprise. 

Companies typically produce blade chassis with future growth in mind. But adding blade servers to existing chassis can be a difficult and time-consuming task. This test report explains how you can simplify this process, thereby saving time and reducing the possibility of error. 

In this podcast, introduced by independent enterprise storage expert Stephen Foskett and Oracle’s Group Manager for NAS Storage Product Management Alex North, talk about the current state of NAS storage, and point out specific technologies that Oracle is leveraging in its new ZFS NAS platform. Listen now to learn more. 

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 IDC Event Flash presents the highlights of the Oracle OpenWorld event held in Beijing on December 13-15, 2010. It explores the comparison to Apple that Oracle's integrated software/hardware, performance focus and higher price point are eliciting. The paper also discusses Oracle's role in the current and future market. 

Join this webcast to learn how Oracle GoldenGate's solution eliminates downtime when migrating to Oracle Exadata. You’ll hear directly from Oracle's customer, IQNavigator, and learn how they have benefited from using Oracle GoldenGate with Oracle Exadata. 

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.