This has been a landmark year for Oracle, the technology company headed by the charismatic and staggeringly wealthy Larry Ellison. Ellison, who is 65, has been chief executive officer since he founded Oracle in June 1977. He was listed the sixth richest person in the world in 2010. 

Organizations running mature SAP or Oracle applications experience significant ongoing savings from third-party support.  Nucleus found Rimini Street customers can reduce their annual license maintenance fees by at least 50 percent and avoid upgrade costs while extending the value of their software investment. 

In this webcast, representatives from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia discuss how it has consolidated multiple database services, including OLTP applications such as PeopleSoft Financials, onto an Oracle Exadata platform for improved performance and resilience and faster time-to-market. 

Oracle Database Vault is the industry’s leading database security solution for addressing regulatory compliance and concerns over the insider threat. Oracle Database Vault provides the flexible transparent and highly adaptable security controls required in today’s global economy. 

Find out what's fact and what's fiction about virtualizing your Exchange Server. What steps should you take, and how can you ensure success? Explore all these questions and more in this e-book. 

The tech chasm that has allegedly formed in the workforce created by a cross-generational 1divide  – between those who grew-up with technology and those that didn’t – is vastly overstated. 

This whitepaper discusses recommendations for embarking on a fact-based approach for selecting servers for hosting modern applications based on workload attributes. In addition, learn about hybrid cloud computing, a technology aimed at addressing the various challenges encountered in scaled out distributed computing implementations. 

This report extract from the Corporate Executive Board, presents key facts and figures on the take up of consumer technology in the workplace. 

At the NERSC Center in California, tape is simply seen as extremely efficient, cost-effective, scalable—and reliable—storage. With over 13 PB of data on tape (growing at around 60% p.a.) and decades of history, NERSC has the facts to prove tape’s capabilities; so much so that it does not employ additional copies. 

While tablet computers continue to grow in popularity, for enterprises, there is much to be concerned about. Fact is, most tablets are made for consumer entertainment and not for keeping enterprise secrets. However, the exception is the highly secure, enterprise ready BlackBerry Playbook tablet. 

Most IT disasters have nothing to do with the hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods that can wipe out a facility. In fact, studies show that hardware failure is the number one reason for DR declarations.  This e-guide describes common DR misconceptions and consequences, and provides backup and testing suggestions for optimal recovery. 

As organizations begin implementing server virtualization, it is critical that they consider the fact that backup and data protection processes will need to be done differently and may become more complicated. This DCIG analyst report discusses methods of effectively protecting data in virtual environments and the different solutions available.