Virtualization

This white paper separates fact from fiction to help senior IT executives make decisions around cloud computing - dispelling myths and answering the tough questions; including how to simplify adopting and securing a private or hybrid cloud.

Using Splunk, Cricket was able to identify system degradation and failures, even in the application area of Cricket's highly-automated and virtualized environment. Read about Cricket's impressive hard and soft ROI.

This independent study by the International Technology group found IBM PowerVM more cost-competitive over time, compared to VMware, in terms of IT costs and the costs of downtime.

The paper explains virtualization in the context of mid-sized businesses and shows how they can reduce costs, improve services and simplify management.

"HP customers need to be aware that changes in server market trends are affecting Itanium. Read this Clabby Analytics paper to understand how industry consolidation and new server architectures are driving a new class of applications, leaving Itanium behind.

Gartner, Inc. positions Proofpoint in the Challengers quadrant in its 2011 Magic Quadrant for the Enterprise Information Archiving (email archiving, file archiving, social media archiving, retention management, eDiscovery, search, legal hold) market.

Email Security: Gartner, Inc. positions Proofpoint in the Leaders quadrant in its 2011 Magic Quadrant for the Secure Email Gateway (email security, anti-spam, anti-virus, outbound content filtering, email encryption, intrusion prevention) market.

Download Proofpoint's free email security whitepaper discussing the latest trends in email phishing attacks, how they work, and how to protect your email users against them.

Download this white paper from Osterman Research and Proofpoint to learn how the protection of corporate data from sophisticated malware and phishing attacks is at top of mind of IT decision makers.

Fast, Scalable, Secure, Integrated, Optimized - discover the benefits of Oracle's new SPARC T4 servers and how they deliver world record performance for a wide range of enterprise applications, and offer enhanced reliability and security.

Oracle's increased investment in SPARC servers with Oracle Solaris has resulted in a new processor design, the SPARC T4, which will be at the heart of a new range of platforms that are optimized for Oracle Enterprise applications! Find out more now!

This white paper examines how the versatile design of the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 along with powerful, bundled virtualization capabilities makes it an ideal platform for consolidating enterprise servers and workloads and deploying apps.

View this E-Book to see how the new SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 combines the very best of Oracle's high-performance technologies in a single machine - giving you an engineered system that is optimized to handle the most complex multi-tier workloads.

The Oracle Database Appliance is a new way to take advantage of the world's most popular database-Oracle Database 11g-in a single, easy-to-deploy and manage system. Find out more in this white paper!

Read Cloud Services Brokerage for Dummies® to learn about the state of cloud computing today, how CSBs add business value, what's important to think about when considering a CSB, and predictions about what's to come.

Download this interactive eBook to learn about the world's #1 application server and why it is the best possible foundation for applications running in the modern data center.

In this white paper, learn how businesses can maximize return on investment and help organizations manage costs for their existing infrastructures or for new enterprise cloud infrastructure design.

The 2011 IOUG Database Growth Survey, conducted in partnership with Oracle Corporation, includes input from 611 IOUG members and summarizes the survey results explore issues and solutions around managing fast-growing database environments.

Oracle Exalogic is a standard data center building block of integrated compute, storage and network components designed to provide a ready to deploy, out of the box platform for a range of enterprise application workloads. Learn more now!

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, the world's first and only integrated middleware machine, dramatically surpasses alternatives and provides enterprises the best possible foundation for running applications.

Although more than two-thirds of confidential information is regulated through database management systems, no computer security program offers adequate protection for the databases against the main threats affecting them today. Oracle, the leader in databases technologies, offers security solutions for the protection of all layers of the database.

Learn how application delivery problems continue to frustrate IT managers and how to move to the cloud without losing your sanity.

With a goal of reducing inlet temperatures, BayCare Health System, a major, non-profit, healthcare network in the Tampa, Florida area, installed a cold aisle containment system (CACS) in one section of its data center

This whitepaper will take an in-depth look at virtualization technologies, security risks, and virtualization technology management models.

This paper describes the concept of Rack Hygiene, which positions the rack as an airflow management device, not an inert commodity.