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  • Lower IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2

    Organizations across the world are using grid computing with Oracle to make the most of their IT resources. And now, Oracle is making grid computing even more accessible. Learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. You'll discover how its new options and features can help you reduce server and storage costs, improve query performance, and ensure availability during database application upgrades.

  • Video: Customers discuss upgrading to Oracle Database 11g

    Get a taste for why customers are upgrading to Oracle Database 11g from the customers themselves, including: McKesson, VocaLink, LogicalTech, and others.

  • Video: Benefits of Oracle Database 11g

    Learn about some of our customer's 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.

  • Video: Experts discuss Oracle Database 11g

    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.

  • How Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Lowers Data Storage Costs with Automatic Storage Management

    These days, gold is soaring in value; but for companies, data is just as valuable as gold. IT decision-makers and DBAs now face greater challenges to implement a cost-effective storage management solution as storage requirements continue to grow. Read this whitepaper to learn more on how to easily and efficiently manage data storage with Oracle Database 11g. And now with Release 2, Oracle extends functionality to manage all types of data.

  • Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 2

    Real Application Clusters with Oracle Database 11g, enables a single database to run across a cluster of servers, providing unbeatable fault tolerance, performance, and scalability with no application changes necessary. This white paper provides a technical 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.

  • Clustering Database Applications to Lower IT Cost

    Customers across all industries are clustering their transaction processing and data warehousing applications to deliver a higher quality of service at a lower cost. Download this whitepaper to learn the advantages of clustering. Discover why this innovative architecture returns such consistent value to the enterprises that adopt it. Understand the direct cause and effect relationship between database clustering and IT efficiencies, which can add up to big savings for your organization.

  • Making the Business Case for Data Centre Consolidation

    Virtualization has brought undoubted benefits to organizations forced with consolidating data centers. However, despite its triumphs in large-scale organizations, virtualization can fall short in safeguarding against unplanned downtime or consolidating beyond servers in areas of storage, data, and applications. According to this IDG white paper, next-generation grid-based solutions and strategies are now addressing the same issues that virtualization can tackle, but without compromising uptime and service delivery. Read ahead to see how grid computing is delivering above and beyond the promises of virtualization. You'll also learn how grid computing is especially impactful in database consolidation with results like better availability, scalability, flexibility, lower costs, and better service levels of every kind.

  • Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server and Database Machine

    Businesses today increasingly need to leverage a unified database platform to enable the deployment and consolidation of all their applications onto one common infrastructure. Whether supporting OLTP, DW or mixed workloads, a common infrastructure delivers the efficiencies and reusability the data center needs — and provides the reality of cloud computing in-house. This white paper examines how the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server allows companies to accelerate database performance, handle change and growth in scalable and incremental steps, and deliver mission-critical data availability and protection.

  • Cost Effective Security and Compliance with Oracle Database 11g Release 2

    The increasingly sophisticated nature of information theft, and the continued emergence of new data privacy protection regulations worldwide, requires strong data security. Effective information security starts by protecting data at the source - the databases in which it resides. Historically most organizations have relied on network perimeter and application level security to restrict access to sensitive data, leaving their databases and the sensitive information inside exposed. With Oracle Database 11g powerful privileged user and multi-factor access control, data classification, transparent data encryption, auditing, monitoring, and data masking, organizations can deploy reliable data security solutions that do not require any changes to existing applications, minimizing the costs associated with regulatory compliance and the deployment of strong internal controls.

  • Optimizing and Protecting Storage with Oracle Database 11g Release 2

    Many IT organizations today use inefficient storage management techniques underneath their Oracle Databases that are based on traditional practices that are no longer the industry's best operating procedure. Given that most organizations are placing continual pressure on their IT departments to manage storage more efficiently, optimize performance, reduce storage costs and mitigate the risk of information loss, no one can afford to be underutilizing capabilities or applying outdated strategies. This document focuses on key Oracle Database 11g capabilities that help IT departments better optimize their storage infrastructure, enabling administrators to deliver a cost effective, scalable information management platform that is easy to manage, and that continues to deliver the performance and availability that today's businesses require. It's time to re-evaluate your storage management solutions; read this informative guide now.

  • Oracle Real Application Clusters One Node: Better Virtualization for Databases

    Availability is a growing concern for all customers. Information, and the databases underlying that information, have become more and more integral to business processes and products. Simply put, windows of downtime for planned maintenance no longer exist. This informative white paper explains how the new Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node offers enhanced high availability for single-instance databases, protecting from both planned and unplanned downtime.

  • Using Oracle In-Memory Database Cache to Accelerate the Oracle Database

    Oracle In-Memory Database (IMDB) Cache enables you to improve application transaction response time by caching the performance-critical subset of tables and table fragments from an Oracle database to the application tier. Caching data using IMDB Cache is superior to other caching techniques as it brings full relational functionality, incremental scalability coupled with location transparency, stellar performance, and automatic maintenance of data consistency. Read this white paper to learn how Oracle In-Memory Database Cache significantly reduces response time, while improving overall application throughput, by bringing data closer to the application, and by processing queries in an in-memory database.

  • Oracle Database 11g for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

    Businesses now demand more information, they want it sooner, and they are delivering more analytics to an ever-widening set of users and applications. The sizes of data warehouses are growing exponentially and more business processes are becoming automated, while more data is collected on more granular levels. This white paper provides an overview of Oracle's capabilities for data warehousing, and discusses the key features and technologies by which Oracle-based business intelligence and data warehouse systems easily integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes and analyze any data.

  • Partitioning with Oracle Database 11g Release 2

    Advanced Compression with Database 11g Release 2 helps you manage more data in a cost-effective manner. With data volumes, on average, tripling every two years, Oracle Advanced Compression delivers compression rates of 2-4x across all types of data and applications. Read this white paper to learn more about how Oracle Advanced Compression can help you reduce the disk space and costs of managing large data volumes.

  • High Availability with Oracle Database 11g Release 2

    As the use of IT-enabled services becomes more prevalent, modern enterprises have become increasingly dependent on their IT infrastructure and its continuous availability. Application downtime and unavailability of data directly translates into lost productivity and revenue, dissatisfied customers, and tarnished corporate image. This white paper reviews the common causes of application downtime and discusses Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture framework that provides clear and concise guidance on implementing best practices using Oracle's proven high availability technologies.

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