Data Center

Enterprise data centers, from small to large, are moving or planning to move significant amounts of their applications and data to the cloud, but data migration is a big concern and implementation on existing infrastructures can be time-consuming, complex, and costly.

One of the more surprising episodes in Hewlett-Packard and Oracle's ill-fated enterprise IT partnership was touched upon for only a few minutes during testimony in their breach-of-contract trial earlier this week. But that event -- fruitless talks aimed at a joint acquisition and breakup of Sun Microsystems -- may have been one of the sources of their current rancor.

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Xsigo Systems this week enhanced its data center fabric portfolio with support for more hypervisors and next-generation servers based on Intel’s “Romley” design.

The Sun Oracle Database Machine is an easy to deploy, out-of-the-box solution for hosting the oracle Database and delivers the highest levels of performance available. It is a "grid in a box" that is composed of database servers running Oracle Database, Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Servers (Exadata), an InfiniBand fabric for storage networking, and all the other components required to host an Oracle Database. Exadata delivers outstanding I/O and SQL processing performance for online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing (DW), and consolidation of mixed workloads. One of the key operational aspects of deploying a Sun Oracle Database Machine is to ensure that database backups are performed and restoration of the Oracle Database is possible if disaster strikes. This paper describes the best practices for setting up the optimal backup and recovery strategy to protect your mission-critical data.

Analyzing new and diverse digital data streams can reveal new sources of economic value, provide fresh insights into customer behavior and identify market trends early on. But managing this influx of new data can be a challenge. To derive real business value from big data, you need the right tools to ca! pture and organize a wide variety of data types from different sources, and be able to easily analyze it with your enterprise data. By using the Oracle Big Data Appliance with Oracle Exadata, enterprises can acquire, organize and analyze all their enterprise data to make the most informed decisions.

In today's economy, it's critical for organizations to make employee retention and development a major business focus, to ensure that valuable employees are not lost as the economy improves. With advanced BI solutions, organizations can be supported by workforce analytics to drive return on human capital investment and to see the value the workforce delivers to organizational performance. This white paper demonstrates how the increased power of having metrics and analytic insight can align core HR business processes with organizational goals and strategies and help ensure organizations make the right business decisions today for tomorrow.

This white paper describes how to build a better business case for BI, by understanding the level of ambition organizations can have and the layers in the business case that should contribute to that level of ambition.

This ESG Lab Validation Report presents the hands-on evaluation and testing results of the FAS2240, NetApp's newly released entry-level storage system.

Learn more about why the Oracle Database Appliance is an ideal database system for customers who value simplicity and who seek to lower the costs and the risks of deploying a highly available database solution.

This white paper describes some of the enhanced capabilities of today's server technology and discusses the three most common approaches to server refresh projects - replacement, upgrade, and outsourcing - along with the business benefits of each.

Data protection is a critical aspect of all computing environments. Over the years, it has changed with the goal of protecting an enterprise's data from device failure expanding to encompass software failure, human error, site outages and theft. Furthermore, as corporate data has become the life blood of organizations, recovery windows have shrunk. An increasing number of organizations are looking at how choosing the right storage platforms contributes to data protection and high-availability and helps ensure minimal planned and unplanned downtime or even continuous operations.