SmartBiz IT Research Library

WHITE PAPER - This document is intended for executives evaluating the use of a horizontally scalable grid for database application deployment, as well as project managers, system engineers, integration specialists, and other technical staff looking to design, implement, and tune database applications in a grid computing environment.
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Cluster Management | Cluster Software | Clustering | Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Architectures | Database Management | Database Managers | Database Performance Management | Databases | High Availability | Operating Systems | Oracle (Product)

WHITE PAPER - Microsoft is targeting close to zero downtime with SQL 2008 with availability and recovery features that only used to be available via third-party solutions. This white paper discusses the evolution of High-availability from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008, and the tools available to minimize downtime in the Enterprise.
Posted: May 26, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Mirroring | Database Administrators | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | SQL | SQL Server

WHITE PAPER - Today's storage environments need a way to keep data intact without consuming corresponding disk storage. The FalconStor® File Interface Deduplication System provides the solution. Read on to discover the amazing benefits of this data deduplication solution.
Posted: May 20, 2009 | Published: May 20, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Databases | Disk Backups | Disk-to-Disk Backup | SQL | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Storage Replication

TRIAL SOFTWARE - Poor performing SQL code is costly in terms of dollars and customer satisfaction. Discovering performance bottlenecks once they're in production is costly.
Posted: May 14, 2009 | Published: May 14, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Data Management | Data Management Software | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Database Performance Management Software | Databases | Query Tools | SQL

PRESENTATION - Do you know what data transport technology options are available in today's market? This paper will help you assess economic, operational, and security factors involved in selecting data transport technology and present Ethernet carrier services as an attractive data transport option.
Posted: May 13, 2009 | Published: April 21, 2009


Topics:  Data Encryption | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Migration | Data Security | Database Administration | Database Management | Databases | Ethernet Networks | Information Management | Information Security | Knowledge Management | LAN | WAN

WHITE PAPER - Bringing together innovative software, server, and storage platforms, the Sun and Infobright solution provides an easy to manage, enterprise-class, highly scalable data warehouse with low total cost of ownership.
Posted: May 11, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Centers | Data Compression | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Storage | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Database Administration | Database Management | Databases | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | TCO

WHITE PAPER - In many companies, Microsoft Exchange is now commonly viewed as a mission-critical application. Protecting Exchange information is critical and backup is still the primary method used. This paper focuses on the traditional backup and recovery practices for Microsoft Exchange Server along with solutions from Data Domain.
Posted: May 8, 2009 | Published: May 8, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Clustering | Continuous Data Protection | Data Center Management | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Databases | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Microsoft Exchange | NAS | RAID | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Virtual Tape Libraries | WAN

WHITE PAPER - This white paper provides an overview for deploying SQL Server in a virtualized environment for VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4 (U4) running on the latest PowerEdge M610 and M710 blade servers and EqualLogic PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays.
Posted: May 5, 2009 | Published: April 30, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Databases | SAN | SQL | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | VMware

EBOOK - This book contains general information about improving performance for DB2 on z/OS and specific information about how BMC products help improve performance.
Posted: April 17, 2009 | Published: April 17, 2009


Topics:  Access Control | Data Management | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | Indexing (Information Management) | Indexing Software | Mainframe Operating Systems | SQL | z/OS

EZINE - In this month's issue of Virtual Data Center, learn how to reduce the number of physical servers even more by focusing on the process of virtual machine placement on host servers.
Posted: April 6, 2009 | Published: April 6, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Databases | Enterprise Applications Software | ROI | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | TCO | VMware | Web Server Software

VIDEO - Chris Watkis, IT Director of Grey Healthcare Group wins the Best Practices in Storage Award at the 2008 Tech Forum Conference. Grey Healthcare Group, one of the world's top five healthcare communications companies, leverages FalconStor VTL with Deduplication to improve backup and recovery performance, optimize their storage environment, and..
Posted: March 31, 2009 | Premiered: March 31, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Databases | Disaster Recovery | Storage Management | Virtual Tape Libraries

WEBCAST - View this Webcast to explore the industry's first relational, in-memory caching software platform that accelerates a broad range of databases up to ten times.
Posted: March 3, 2009 | Premiered: March 17, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Integration | Database Architectures | Database Management | Database Management Software | Database Performance Management | Databases

MICROSITE - Learn how aGreen Data Center can improve your company's bottom line today.
Posted: February 24, 2009 | Published: February 24, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Database Architectures | Database Management | Databases | Environmental Compliance | Environmental Industry | Power Supplies

WHITE PAPER - Who are my best customers? If you manage sales, marketing, or customer service, you want an answer to that. That's because implementing successful strategies for every customer segment is critical to increasing business profits. This paper describes just a few of the ways that you can use analytics to better understand your customers.
Posted: February 20, 2009 | Published: February 20, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Customer Service | Data Management | Databases | Marketing | Sales

WHITE PAPER - This paper briefly defines text analytics, describes various approaches to text analytics, and then focuses on the natural language processing techniques used by SPSS Inc.'s text analytics solutions.
Posted: February 20, 2009 | Published: February 20, 2009


Topics:  Business Processes | CRM | Customer Loyalty | Customer Service | Data Mining | Databases | Instant Messaging | Marketing