In this white paper, we're taking a closer look at how cost control goes hand-in-hand with process flexibility. Your IT infrastructure can help, with integrated, automated processes that enable your staff to get things done faster. 

A researcher at The Data Warehousing Institute recently estimated that 80 percent of information available in an average enterprise is unstructured and unavailable from any standard database management system. What can you do about it? Enterprise search software incorporates unstructured documents into the same architecture as classic reports. 

While data warehouses are important for many types of analytical systems, they aren’t always necessary. Building a data warehouse can dramatically increase the cost of a BI project. This paper describes data warehouses, along with many other options for placing relevant, timely information in the hands of business users. 

Unified communications (UC), offers the promise of converging voice, data, and video communication and of eliminating many roadblocks in communication. In conducting these in-depth interviews with Microsoft UC products customers, Forrester found that organizations can achieve significant productivity improvements and cost savings. 

This white paper defines the challenges facing today's IT executives and steps you can take now to support your organization’s SOA-based initiatives by cutting costs, leveraging your existing IT infrastructure and improving productivity. 

Read the "Database Activity Monitoring (DAM)" chapter from "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press, 2009) and learn how to leverage DAM to prevent SQL injection attacks, monitor privileged users and track access to sensitive data. 

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. 

In this expert podcast, learn how new capacity planning and performance management tools utilize automation and an intuitive interface to increase resource utilization and reduce capital expenditures for your virtualized data center. 

This white paper discusses how reduced budgets and growing demands on IT departments have forced organizations to find ways to cut costs, increase IT resource productivity, and optimize existing investments. Find out more about on this topic and how the new Dell Management Console can assist you. 

Learn how data center virtualization enables your company to implement cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) solutions and reduce DR testing and maintenance costs. 

This paper explores the data explosion phenomenon and why column-oriented database systems are able to provide the boost that is needed to gain the performance edge. The paper contrasts row-oriented systems with column-oriented systems, and then elaborates on the benefits of the columnar approach. 

The Sybase Analytic Appliance is revolutionizing the data warehouse appliance market by integrating the leading column-based analytic software with hardware from the industry's number one provider of UNIX systems. Read this paper for more. 

This white paper describes the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array's innovative architectures and technologies, as well as storage deployment considerations, that bring tremendous business benefit to performance-hungry database applications.