Platforms

In today's business environment, organizations of all sizes are struggling to maintain the advanced IT capabilities they need to be competitive while reining in cost and complexity. Shifting to off-premise hosted models, such as software-as-a-service (SaaS) and business process outsourcing, is a common activity undertaken to manage costs. One of the main challenges businesses face in adopting cloud and SaaS delivery models is the task of synchronizing data and integrating the multitude of systems already in datacenters with new cloud-based applications, not to mention within the cloud itself. Traditionally, this required organizations to leverage existing tools as well as custom development. This white paper looks at how two enterprises encountered problems with cloud integration and adopted IBM WebSphere Cast Iron to solve their immediate problems and extend use more broadly across their organizations.

Windows 8 includes many new security features, such as secure password storage, secure boot functions, anti-malware defenses, and even enhanced reputation capabilities. Will these features be enough to mitigate risks to users and corporate networks?

Users who take work with them everywhere unknowingly jeopardize networks and systems.

Today’s threats to endpoints and data are more complex, more numerous, more varied —and changing every second. McAfee understands next-generation security in the context of your devices, additional protection technologies, and central management.

The move towards multi-faceted protection has been gathering pace, with more technologies coming into play to protect users from the vast and increasing number of threats.

PassMark Software conducted objective performance testing on Windows Defender and Symantec Endpoint Protection, on Windows 8 in August 2012. Read this comparison report for detailed results from performance tests.

By combining communications tools such as instant messaging, presence, telephony, unified messaging, video conferencing, data sharing, and email, the technology known as unified communications (UC) lets your employees communicate and collaborate,

Read how AppSense Application Manager provides the only URM solution that dynamically controls end-user rights with surgical precision, providing users with the rights they need while increasing security and reducing IT costs.

In one of the largest SAP production cloud deployments, Domino Sugar doubles performance and reduces total cost of owndership by up to 40 percent with VirtueStream xStream* platform

Roxana Bradescu, Director of Database Security Product Management at Oracle, will discuss how these pitfalls can be avoided by following best practices for data encryption throughout the enterprise using Oracle Advanced Security.

During this webcast Kamal Tbeileh, Sr. Principal Product Manager at Oracle, will discuss database access control best practices for all database users, including highly privileged users using Oracle Database Vault.

Download this assessment of Oracle Database Appliance from Nucleus Research, to discover the various compelling features of the appliance.

ITIC asserts that IBM's latest Linux-only Power Systems offer current and prospective Big Blue customers high performance and reliability for physical and virtualized environments at an extremely aggressive price point.

Using data from real customer deployments, Solitaire examines differentiators for network infrastructure deployments on either PowerLinux or Windows. PowerLinux clearly emerges as a preferred platform.

Read this executive summary to learn how PureFlex Systems can dramatically reduce costs and cycle times.

Cabot Partners offers a glimpse into the market trends for SAP adoption in midsize businesses and imperatives for the supporting platform.

Using data from real customer deployments, Solitaire examines differentiators for SAP deployments on either PowerLinux or Windows. PowerLinux clearly emerges as a preferred platform.

Download this Tech Brief to get the real facts about tape storage.

With the introduction of Oracle's StorageTek T10000C tape drive, Oracle has raised the bar again, delivering the world's fastest tape drive and the first tape solution to offer an exabyte of storage capacity in a single tape library.

This paper describes how these trends have affected storage technologies and how Oracle's storage solutions enable organizations to reduce IT costs, accelerate provisioning of private cloud services, and achieve higher service levels.

his paper describes how these trends have affected storage technologies and how Oracle's storage solutions enable organizations to reduce IT costs, accelerate provisioning of private cloud services, and achieve higher service levels.

Download this Tech Brief to get the real facts about tape storage.

With the introduction of Oracle's StorageTek T10000C tape drive, Oracle has raised the bar again, delivering the world's fastest tape drive and the first tape solution to offer an exabyte of storage capacity in a single tape library.

This white paper provides an overview of Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 2 with an emphasis on the features and functionality that can be implemented to provide the highest availability and scalability for your enterprise applications.

Read this white paper to get an overview of the Oracle Database family of products and learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2.