Once you decide to deploy Oracle within the data center, a continuous lifecycle begins - moving from initial development, test, and deployment, to ongoing migration, to new releases of Oracle and deployment of new features with each release. The EMC Solutions Practice for Oracle can help you get started quickly. 

Learn about some of our customers' favorite new features of Oracle Database 11g Release 2. Find out why this latest release is leaps and bounds better than Oracle Database 10g Release 2. 

Hear why it's critical for DBAs to download Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and learn about some of the new features to make it easier to deploy, manage, tune, and secure your Oracle Database. 

Solaris™ Cluster provides Solaris Zone Clusters (also called Solaris Containers Clusters), which provide virtual clusters and support the consolidation of multiple cluster applications onto a single cluster. Specifically, this article describes how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) can be deployed on a zone cluster. 

Many companies are considering Oracle R12 to help them thrive in the global business environment. But upgrading can affect the organization as a whole as well as processes and underlying technologies. To help you avoid costs and delays and take full advantage of the software, AT&T experts outline key steps for assessing your upgrade readiness. 

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. 

Informational applications have become one of the most critical areas of IT activity. How will these challenges be met? This report examines an option -– use of IBM DB2 9.7 as an alternative to Oracle 11g -– that represents a major new opportunity for organizations to meet escalating demand while reducing IT costs. 

The retail giant Tesco has aggressive plans for global growth and has expanded its international presence significantly, including penetration of the huge US market. A key element in its expansion plan is its common operating model, which called for crucial mainframe applications to be modernized to run on standardized platforms worldwide. 

Making sure mission critical databases are highly availably (HA) is the main challenge of IT departments. This paper discusses the failover and redundancy capabilities of specific HA products that can be used in conjunction with PostgreSQL, Postgres Plus, and the Oracle compatible database Postgres Plus Advanced Server. 

This data sheet gives a brief overview of the Postgres Plus training classes for developers by EnterpriseDB. Read this data sheet to learn how these training classes can improve your Postgres knowledge and enhance your professional growth. 

This guide will walk you through evaluating EnterpriseDB's products, Postgres Plus Standard Server and Postgres Plus Advanced Server, to help you decide which product is right for you. This evaluation guide will also help with installation and testing and provide additional information on how to use the product. 

Although Microsoft will continue supporting Windows XP through 2014, enterprises should begin migrating to Windows 7 soon to avoid losing support for their environments from independent software vendors.