SmartBiz IT Research Library

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Management | Storage Appliances | Storage Devices | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WEBCAST - Databases are an important part of a company’s infrastructure, but they also tend to be rich with attack vectors to exploit. This webcast explores the many potential PostgreSQL external vulnerabilities and then shows how those vulnerabilities can be secured. Watch this webcast to learn how to protect one of your company’s most valued assets.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Premiered: November 9, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Database Security | Databases | Open Source | Oracle (Product) | PostgreSQL | Risk Assessment | Vulnerability Assessments

VIDEO - Watch this 10 minute video and discover what Oracle compatibility means for your business from a technical, and skills point of view. This video also offers multiple low risk strategies for using Postgres Plus Advanced Server to lower your Oracle costs and utilize the advantages of the most advanced open source database available.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Premiered: November 9, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Architectures | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | IT Managers | Open Source | Oracle (Product) | PostgreSQL

TRIAL SOFTWARE - F5 Data Manager helps you understand your file storage environment. This trial version will perform an inventory of your environment and enable you to run detailed reports that analyze which file types are being created, who is creating them, how quickly they age, and which resources they consume.
Posted: November 6, 2009 | Published: September 14, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Storage | Database Administration | Database Management | Network Management | Storage Capacity | Storage Devices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems | Unstructured Data

PODCAST - In this podcast, learn how two leading data modeling tools compare and how utilizing advanced data modeling improves productivity, standards compliance and knowledge sharing.
Posted: November 5, 2009 | Premiered: November 5, 2009


Topics:  Data Governance | Data Management Software | Data Modeling | Data Modeling Languages | Data Visualization Software | Database Administration | Database Management | Knowledge Management | Regulatory Compliance | Reporting Software

WHITE PAPER - The purpose of this whitepaper is to describe best practices for securing IBM System i/i-Series/AS400 systems and detail the AS400 monitoring service provided by SecureWorks.
Posted: November 3, 2009 | Published: November 2, 2009


Topics:  Application Security | Data Security | Database Administration | Database Security | Network Security | Security | Security Event Management | Security Software | Security Spending

WHITE PAPER - Today’s data centers and cloud computing environments require increased I/O performance to support large-scale applications such as databases, web servers, e-commerce applications, file servers, and email. This whitepaper focuses on the performance benefits of using the Adaptec MaxIQ™ SSD Cache Performance Solution.
Posted: November 2, 2009 | Published: October 28, 2009


Topics:  Cache | Cache Server Software | Caching | Cloud Computing | Data Center Management | Database Administration | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases

WHITE PAPER - This paper will help you understand the prospects that Postgres Plus RDBMS from EnterpriseDB and the JBoss Application Server from Red Hat can provide when used in combination.
Posted: October 30, 2009 | Published: October 30, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Database Administration | Database Architectures | Database Performance Management | Database Performance Management Software | Databases | J2EE | Oracle (Product) | PostgreSQL | Web 2.0

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: October 29, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Management | Storage Appliances | Storage Devices | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

PRESENTATION - This collection of slides from the Information Security Decisions Conference presents a practical 5 step plan toward achieving greater standards of database security and compliance. These steps consist of discovering, securing, monitoring, protecting and managing your databases. Download the slides to learn more.
Posted: October 29, 2009 | Published: October 29, 2009


Topics:  Data Security | Database Administration | Database Management | Database Security | Security | Security Management

WHITE PAPER - This article provides real-life cases of how the software industry is delivering breakthrough solutions as they tap into the Intel Xeon processor 5500’s full capabilities. Learn how smart software combined with smart hardware saves time, money, and energy.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Published: October 28, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Architectures | Database Design | Database Management | Processor Architectures | Software Architectures | Software as a Service | Software Asset Management | Software Best Practices | Software Configuration Management | Software Development Life-Cycles

WHITE PAPER - The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of DMExpress on their organizations. Forrester’s aim is to clearly show all calculations and assumptions used in the analysis.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Published: August 25, 2008


Topics:  Customer Data Integration | Customer Data Management | Customer Data Management Software | Data Warehouse Architectures | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Database Administration | Database Management

EBOOK - How can you develop the optimal hardware strategy for maximum performance of your SAP environment? This eBook includes tips and insight from server, storage, virtualization and SAP software pros that will help you get the most out of your SAP enterprise software.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Published: October 27, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Management | Database Server Software | Databases | Memory | Memory Management | SAP (Product) | Server Appliances | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Software | Server Virtualization | Storage Appliances | Storage Architectures | Storage Hardware | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This technical guide for database administrators and IT security experts demonstrates how you can protect your sensitive data with the native database encryption functions of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, such as cell-level encryption and Transparent Data Encryption, and manage and protect encryption keys with hardware security modules (HSMs).
Posted: October 21, 2009 | Published: October 21, 2009


Topics:  Data Encryption | Data Security | Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Security | Security | Security Hardware | SQL Server | Windows Server Software

WHITE PAPER - Informational applications have become one of the most critical areas of IT activity. How will these challenges be met? This report examines an option -– use of IBM DB2 9.7 as an alternative to Oracle 11g -– that represents a major new opportunity for organizations to meet escalating demand while reducing IT costs.
Posted: October 20, 2009 | Published: August 20, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | Storage Appliances | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management