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• High Avail and Disaster Recovery Using Application Grid Technology

  Many businesses are totally dependent on critical computer-based services for their operations. Yet only 50 percent of businesses have a plan for maintaining the availability of these computing services in the face of unplanned computer downtime.

• Realize the Full Potential of Virtualized Java Applications: Oracle WebLogic Suite Virtualization Option and Oracle Assembly Builder

  Virtualized server environments have proven their ability to reduce costs and increase flexibility by consolidating hardware assets and enabling dynamic provisioning of IT resources. However, many enterprises still follow the same time-consuming practices.

• Effective Enterprise Java Virtualization with Oracle WebLogic Suite

  Increased operating costs, inefficient hardware utilization, and rapidly expanding datacenters have made virtualization the most compelling IT technology in years.

• Tuxedo in an SOA World

  Service-oriented architecture is one of the most widely accepted architectural approaches to building and integrating applications. Oracle Tuxedo is one of the original SOA platforms. Everything in Tuxedo is a service and invoked as a service.

• SCA: Bringing Modern SOA Programming to Tuxedo

  While Oracle Tuxedo is one of the original service-oriented architecture (SOA) platforms, the solution has lacked a simple programming model that lends itself to rapid development and easy reuse of services.

• Achieving Business Agility with Application Grid

  Companies are learning how to run their data centers more efficiently using less hardware, less software and less IT resources. These companies are turning to a new concept called application grid, an infrastructure layer beneath the application layer that pools and dynamically provisions the resources on which those applications run. Application grid brings the same type of efficiency, scalability, and quality of service to the application layer that database clusters brings to the database layer. With an application grid you get greater efficiency, exceptional agility, and superior quality of service. Download this free white paper now.

• Application Grid: Ideal Platform for IT Consolidation

  Application grid is an emerging architecture for application server-level infrastructure that is ideally suited for consolidation. In particular, Oracle Fusion Middleware application grid technologies, including WebLogic Server, Tuxedo, Coherence, and JRockit, provide an excellent foundation for IT consolidation efforts.

• Oracle WebLogic Suite: A Middleware Foundation for Application Grid

  This free white paper shows that Oracle WebLogic Suite packages many essential middleware capabilities to help organizations implement application grid concepts. Learn about the technical components of the suite to create an infrastructure layer that pools and dynamically provisions the resources on which business applications and SOA run. Download this free, compelling white paper now.

• Enhance Customer Loyalty through Higher Responsiveness

  The economic downturn is forcing businesses to tighten their belts and look for more efficient channels. Using the Internet as a business channel, and sometimes even the only channel, is becoming more prevalent. However, there are significant challenges to being successful at e-commerce. The user experience associated with web applications relies in large part on the availability and management of their session data, its persistence, and its management. This white paper focuses on the topic of data availability and management for mission-critical web applications.

• Mainframe Rehosting With Oracle Tuxedo: Accelerating Cost Reduction and Application Modernization

  Find out how mainframe rehosting lets IT professionals spend more time and money on development rather than on maintaining aging systems. This free whitepaper explains how you can unlock the value of key business logic for integration and reuse and therefore create a more innovative IT environment.

• Oracle WebLogic Server: A Solid Foundation for Service-Oriented Architecture

  This paper discusses how Java EE 5 dramatically speeds the development of SOA applications and how enterprise developers can leverage its power by using Oracle WebLogic Server. Download this free white paper today.

• Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g: Benefit Your Business with Fast, Efficient Middleware

  Oracle WebLogic Suite, a foundational element of Oracle Fusion Middleware, offers the ideal mix of performance, scalability, and operational efficiency to support modern IT requirements driven by ever-changing business needs.

• Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Mission Critical Applications

  Oracle Tuxedo is the industry's #1 distributed transaction processing platform. It provides mainframe-class reliability, performance, and scalability, all on open, distributed systems for applications written in C, C++, and COBOL. Tuxedo is the premier platform for building mission-critical applications and re-hosting mainframe applications on open systems and commodity-based grid infrastructure. Oracle Tuxedo is cost-effective, reliable, and extremely scalable (up to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second). Finally, Tuxedo protects mainframe investments through reuse of existing IT assets in modern service-oriented architecture while significantly reducing operational costs. As a member of the hot-pluggable Oracle Middleware family, Tuxedo embraces open standards for maximum flexibility and interoperability while delivering unmatched performance and scalability. As companies seek to lower their total cost of ownership, adopt more standards oriented platforms, and leverage existing IT assets while not compromising on the mission critical nature of their business applications, Oracle Tuxedo emerges as the platform of choice.

• Agile Foundation for Competitive Advantage: Oracle Tuxedo Enables Speed, Innovation, and Efficiency in Financial Services

  Unrelenting competition is transforming the financial services industry, spurring firms to reinvent themselves to win customers and asset share. At the same time, organic growth, operational costs reduction, and risk and regulatory compliance remain among the most pressing issues facing financial institutions today. As financial institutions seek new ways to foster customer responsiveness, operational efficiency, and business agility, Oracle Tuxedo is ready to answer the call in banking, insurance, and capital markets. Already the platform of choice enabling trillions of dollars of financial transactions daily across the globe, Tuxedo is now empowering financial institutions to transform their business and modernize IT infrastructure through innovative solutions to address their most pressing needs in banking, brokerage, trading and insurance. Whereas other vendors lock you into costly proprietary technology, Tuxedo, now a key part of hot-pluggable Oracle Middleware, embraces open standards for maximum flexibility and interoperability, while continuing to deliver unmatched performance and scalability. Join the many financial service organizations that rely on Oracle Tuxedo for better transaction processing, low latency SOA-based business processes, and a superior ownership experience.

• Mission-Critical Java

  Technology barriers have prevented enterprises from adopting Java-based approaches for mission critical applications with extreme and predictable computing needs. However, recent advances throughout the entire Java stack have overcome these barriers to position Java to power the next generation of enterprise computing. Customers can now reap the benefits of a standard Java-based infrastructure, including higher developer productivity, fewer defects, a rock-solid proven kernel, and adherence to standards. Read this free white paper to learn how you can achieve:

  • Extreme and predictable performance with Java
  • Real-time, real-world memory leak detection and application performance analysis
  • Increased Enterprise performance, manageability and simplicity

• Deterministic Garbage Collection: Unleash the Power of Java with Oracle JRockit Real Time

  This free white paper details key steps for achieving a superior data management strategy—a 'must have' capability for applications to operate with extreme, predictable performance and scalability. You'll learn:

  • Why data management is a vital component of all mission-critical applications
  • How many of the world's largest companies to achieve extreme, scalable performance with continuous availability for business-critical applications
  • How a successful data management strategy can increase business velocity while making your business more efficient.

• Achieving the Impossible: Unlimited App Scale

  For modern applications, particularly those built for the Java platform, there are proven approaches and solutions that can help an organization achieve predictable, scalable performance for their applications. And although these approaches may be most valuable for extreme-scale applications, they can save time and money in almost any server-based application.

• Extreme Performance, Predictable, & Econ Scale & Continuous Avail for J2EE Apps

  This free white paper details key steps for achieving a superior data management strategy—a 'must have' capability for applications to operate with extreme, predictable performance and scalability. You'll learn:

  • Why data management is a vital component of all mission-critical applications
  • How many of the world's largest companies to achieve extreme, scalable performance with continuous availability for business-critical applications
  • How a successful data management strategy can increase business velocity while making your business more efficient.

• The Department of Defense and Open Source Software

  Is open source software a viable strategy for large-scale SOA deployments, especially at the U.S. Department of Defense? This white paper looks at the pros and cons of open-source software and helps organizations understand how to build a business case that is based on cost, schedule, performance and risks across the entire program lifecycle not just up-front program inception costs and considerations.

• Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g Technical

  Businesses want to minimize the cost of running business-critical applications, deliver new products and services at light speed for competitive advantage, and cope with ever-increasing customer Quality of Service (QoS). They demand extreme and predictable performance, unlimited and linear scalability, continuous availability, efficient manageability and automatic/dynamic infrastructure provisioning at a low cost. Read this free white paper for in-depth information on how Oracle WebLogic Application Grid provides the data grid, Java runtime, and management features to meet these demanding requirements with benefits that include:

  • Allowing IT to support business' need for increased and volatile compute power with unlimited, linear scalability
  • Improved application QoS
  • Lowered total cost of ownership

• Next-Generation, Low-Latency Front-Office Computing for Capital Markets

  Capital markets have complex, data-intensive front-office environments that change in milliseconds. To survive and differentiate themselves, companies need predictable, high-performance technical solutions. They also must control costs. Until now, satisfying both of these requirements was a difficult challenge. Read this white paper to learn how financial organizations can embrace a portable, standards-based architecture to create a predictable, sustainable millisecond response time environment that will increase revenue generation and opportunity optimization.

• Automatic Service Migration in WebLogic Server

  WebLogic Server offers messaging, transaction, and other system services to facilitate building enterprise grade applications. Previous releases of Oracle WebLogic Server provided support for administrators to manually migrate highly available services from a failed cluster server to a healthy server, but there would still be a cost associated with server administration. Download this free whitepaper and learn how Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3 adds support to the WLS Clustering infrastructure by eliminating the need for human intervention through the use of automatic migration.

• Video: Enhance Your Business with Fast, Efficient Middleware

  Watch the free, on-demand video to learn how modern enterprise software infrastructure must keep pace with dynamic business needs. As a business changes through growth, contraction, or seasonal variation, its middleware must be flexible, cost-efficient, and easily modified to accommodate this fluctuation. Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is a modern application infrastructure foundation. Its unique design principles-complete, integrated, hot-pluggable, and best-of-breed-improve the agility and intelligence of business applications while maximizing IT efficiency and lowering costs. Oracle WebLogic Suite, a foundational element of Oracle Fusion Middleware, offers the ideal mix of performance, scalability, and operational efficiency to support modern IT requirements driven by ever-changing business needs. Watch now!