May 2010 - (Free Research) When proposing an upgrade to SQL Server 2008 R2 to management, you need to focus more on ROI than its cool, new features. In the second volume of the SQL Server Insider e-zine, you’ll learn how to draft a presentation that will wow the higher ups and convince them that migrating to SQL Server 2008 R2 is worth it.
January 2009 - (Free Research) In order to ensuring the EDW will get the optimal performance and will scale as your data set grows you need to get three fundamental things correct, the hardware configuration, the data model and the data loading process.
September 2009 - (Free Research) 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.
May 2010 - (Free Research) Although the database plays a less central role today than it did in the client-server era, database performance is still critical for application performance. Read this paper to learn how database performance problems can be detected ahead of time, ensuring business continuity and reducing the cost of database-driven performance "brown outs".
June 2009 - (Free Research) How do Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database platforms compare on reliability, scalability and cost when run under enterprise software? Download this white paper for details.
February 2009 - (Free Research) This paper is about using information management software from Business Objects, an SAP company, for SAP data migration projects, either for upgrades from one version of SAP to a newer one, or from other environments to SAP.
June 2009 - (Free Research) In this expert podcast, learn how new capacity planning and performance management tools utilize automation and an intuitive interface to increase resource utilization and reduce capital expenditures for your virtualized data center.
March 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses how reduced budgets and growing demands on IT departments have forced organizations to find ways to cut costs, increase IT resource productivity, and optimize existing investments. Find out more about on this topic and how the new Dell Management Console can assist you.
November 2009 - (Free Research) This guidebook provides the answers with a series of detailed sections including essential activities such as planning, forecasting, risk management, team selection, communication and collaboration.
July 2009 - (Free Research) Read this paper to learn how a challenging business climate can create an opportunity for many enterprises to revisit how IT supports the need for improved business productivity. Better, more efficient IT is often required. This streamlining of IT demands better and more accurate IT management processes in order to reduce waste.
January 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper focuses on the use of a log-based, real-time change data capture (CDC) solution to enable real-time reporting using a low overhead solution that minimizes the impact on IT infrastructure.
July 2010 - (Free Research) Listen to this Podcast to learn how SEQUEL, a powerful data access and retrieval tool, can solve your data access needs. SEQUEL can help any business and any user, whether data is stored locally on a System i DB2 database, or remotely on servers running SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL.
November 2009 - (Free Research) Read this case study to learn how Alfred University saved 80% on hardware, refreshing SunGard Higher Education Banner Unified Digital Campus infrastructure with Dell servers.
December 2009 - (Free Research) The City of Hamilton deployed NOMAD, an application from Horizant, for BlackBerry smartphones, which mobilizes the way facilities management is handled. The solution is designed to automatically push out work orders from the City of Hamilton's back-end database which are then received by tradespeople on their BlackBerry smartphones.
May 2010 - (Free Research) Read this paper to learn how the latest Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers running the latest Windows Server® operating system and the latest version of Microsoft® SQL Server® can provide the levels of reliability, availability, serviceability, and scalability you've come to expect, at a fraction of the cost.
March 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper describes the benefits of using Navisphere® Quality of Service (QoS) Manager on EMC® Celerra® Unified Storage Platforms in a VMware ESX environment.
May 2009 - (Free Research) This brief examines the operational costs and risks of SPARC environments, and shows that business assets currently hosted on SPARC can be migrated easily into the data center mainstream.
April 2009 - (Free Research) Mission-critical data processing relies in large part on the automated initiation, execution, management, integration, and recovery of batch-mode IT processing. Read about BMC Software's solution that integrates their batch process automation solution, BMC CONTROL M, with their CMDB solution, BMC Atrium.
March 2010 - (Free Research) Proper master data management (MDM) is very valuable when available to enterprise business processes and analytics. However, master data projects are often challenging, architecturally complex, time intensive and expensive. This paper explains why the time is right for open source MDM, and predicts the effects of open source on the MDM marketplace.
October 2009 - (Free Research) ITSM is an IT management approach focused on end-to-end services rather than individual technology components. It is more aligned with the customer view of IT than the technology view. Read this paper to learn how business service management takes ITSM to the next level.
January 2009 - (Free Research) Manufacturers are feeling new pressure on their operations from many directions. Dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, rapid product innovation, lean manufacturing, and the transition to new IT technology all manifest themselves on the plant floor and throughout the enterprise.
July 2010 - (Free Research) In this interactive webinar, Dr. Devlin, one of the foremost authorities on business insight and data warehousing, and Sid Probstein, CTO of Attivio, will first show data and content as two ends of a continuum of the same business information asset and then explore the depth of integration required for full business value.
TechTarget provides enterprise IT professionals with the information they need to perform their jobs - from developing strategy, to making cost-effective IT purchase decisions and managing their organizations' IT projects - with its network of technology-specific Web sites, events and magazines.
