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. 

This document is intended for IT architects, system administrators, and developers that want to understand the details of how Oracle® Solaris and SPARC® can improve your application solution environment.  

This paper shows the value of combining Oracle software with Intel Xeon processors on Dell PowerEdge servers. It begins with an overview of the collaboration that created these synergies, before detailing the major areas where they are manifest to end-customers: intelligent performance, automated energy efficiency, and flexible virtualization. 

Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers, Oracle® Solaris, Oracle Solaris Cluster, and educational and professional services from Oracle can help organizations maximize the availability of business-critical IT services. Continue reading to learn more. 

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 paper offers a high-level discussion of the benefits of Oracle Solaris running on Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series and T-Series, and drill-down information on specific optimisations and advantages for increased reliability, security and virtualisation. 

Read this paper for an explanation of how current IT methodology for implementing application integrations and business process automation is failing the business over the long run. Learn about the four established patterns of innovation that help organizations avoid these negative consequences. 

Read this white paper to get an overview of the Oracle Database family of products and learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. 

Catch this FREE webcast to find out how Educational Testing Service (ETS), a private nonprofit organization devoted to educational measurement and research, is leveraging Oracle Identity Manager to meet its user administration needs. 

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. 

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

UNT needed to deploy a new SAN that could meet the performance, ease-of-management, and cost requirements. In the search for the right solution, they went through an extensive cost of ownership analysis of the competing vendors. Read this Case Study to learn more about the solution they found. 

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.