Today’s database administrators are required to manage not only more databases but also larger databases—all with the same staff. Combining the power of Oracle with the intelligence of Dell Compellent Storage Center can create a more dynamic database infrastructure and help protect business-critical applications against downtime and disaster. 

This white paper discusses the business and technology reasons behind customers' continued choice of Oracle Database for their PeopleSoft application deployments. 

Read this white paper for an overview of cloud computing along with Oracle's cloud computing strategy and significant features of Oracle business intelligence 11g, Oracle's market leading BI platform that has been architected to support both cloud and non-cloud deployments. 

This paper examines the application grid approach to enterprise middleware, and looks at Oracle Fusion Middleware products, including Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Coherence, and their ability to drastically reduce data center sprawl and drive down operational costs by instituting an application grid methodology. 

This paper provides an introductory overview of some of the enterprise backup options available for Oracle data. 

The Oracle Grid computing architecture features many powerful techniques that improve energy efficiency and data center productivity. 

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. 

Applied Oracle Security (Oracle Press, 2010) is the definitive guide to safeguarding Oracle Database 11g written by the security experts in Oracle’s National Security Group. This complementary chapter on auditing covers how to audit database activity efficiently, improve security, address regulatory requirements, and automate compliance reporting. 

This paper focuses on configuring Oracle GoldenGate to run on Sun Oracle Database Machine. Sun Oracle Database Machine can act as the source database, as the target database, or in some cases as both source and target databases for GoldenGate processing.