This whitepaper reviews the common causes of system downtime and discusses how technologies available in Oracle Database can help avoid costly downtime and enable rapid recovery from unavoidable failures. It also highlights new technologies introduced in Oracle Database 11g that enable businesses to maximize their return on investment on High Availability infrastructure and provide better quality of service to users. >>

Why are customers switching to Oracle Database 11g? Listen as customers from Mobiltel, Warner Music, 3n, and Dell discuss the features and improvements that made them switch, from Active Data Guard and performance improvements to on-demand scalability and maximum availability. >>

As a feature of Oracle Database 11g, Active Data Guard helps users build and maintain complete working copies of production databases. It can help IT organizations meet the challenge of enhancing the quality of service offered to their customers while at the same time reducing complexity and cost. >>

Oracle Database 11g is designed to help organizations maintain a reliable and scalable infrastructure to meet quality of service expectations at the lowest cost. Protecting data with backups alone is not enough. You need an infrastructure that insulates users from unforeseen server, storage, and site failure while ensuring business continuity. >>

Oracle Real Application Testing allows for greater business agility by reducing the time required to test and QA system changes by as much as 80 percent. It can also lower infrastructure testing costs by as much as 70 percent for some customers. >>

Oracle Data Guard 11g can address both High Availability and Disaster Recovery requirements, and is the ideal complement to Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC). Straightforward to implement and manage, Data Guard has the requisite knowledge of the Oracle database to reliably protect a standby database from corruptions that attempt to propagate from a primary database. >>

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) deliver an innovative high availability and scalability solution. Oracle RAC with Oracle Database 11g helps customers provide continuous uptime for database applications as well as on-demand scalability. >>

Organizations find it very expensive to evaluate and implement changes to their data center infrastructure, and therefore data center managers are reluctant to adopt new technologies and adapt their businesses to the rapidly changing competitive pressures. Oracle Database 11g's Real Application Testing addresses these issues head-on with the introduction of two new solutions, Database Replay and SQL Performance Analyzer. >>

Oracle Database 11g introduces the Advanced Compression Option to help customers reduce the resources and costs of managing large data volumes. The introduction of these exciting new technologies come at an opportune time as terabyte-sized databases are becoming prevalent in enterprise data centers. >>

Oracle Database 11g introduces the eighth generation of partitioning, which continues to offer new and enhanced functionality; new partitioning techniques enable customers to model even more business scenarios while a complete new framework of partition advice and automation enables the usage of Oracle Partitioning for everybody. >>

Businesses have more data to manage than ever before and they are also charged with keeping the costs of storage down. Oracle Database 11g introduces a comprehensive set of technologies to help address these challenges. Customers can compress any type of data, whether structured or unstructured, as well as network traffic. >>

In order to ensure your Enterprise Data Warehouse EDW will perform optimally and scale as your data set grows, you need to get three fundamental elements of an EDW correct: the hardware configuration, the data model and the data loading process. By designing these three elements correctly, you can seamlessly scale out your EDW without having to constantly tune or tweak the system. This white paper provides a set of best practices and how-to examples for deploying a data warehouse on Oracle Database 11g and leveraging its best-of breed functionality. >>

The HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server is a revolutionary advancement in database technology where database intelligence has been implemented at the storage level resulting in significant application performance gains. This white paper defines best practices for pre-migration, migration and post migration from legacy storage to the HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server. The best practices aid in determining the most appropriate migration strategy given application service levels and attributes. >>

The HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server is a revolutionary high-performance storage product that has been optimized for Oracle Database 11g. This white paper outlines how Oracle Exadata can deliver outstanding I/O and SQL processing performance for data warehousing applications by leveraging a massively parallel architecture to enable a dynamic storage grid for Oracle Database 11g deployments. >>

Listen to this podcast to learn more about a pair of new database products, the Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the HP Oracle Database Machine. >>

Oracles recently announced hardware products, HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server and HP Oracle Database Machine, stand to shake-up the IT industry in several areas. If the product claims and initial disclosures about throughput are affirmed through further testing, customers will be induced to use more Oracle Database for data warehousing by the attraction of a predefined and supported configuration. Read this white paper to learn more about IDCs opinion of the HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the HP Oracle Database Machine. >>

This white paper provides an overview of Oracle Database 11g's data warehousing capabilities, and introduces Oracle's data storage solutions, HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the HP Oracle Database Machine. Oracles data warehousing solutions enable customers to integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes and analyze any type of data. >>

Oracle Database 11g offers unprecedented flexibility for customers to choose the .NET application tools and architecture that fit their requirements without sacrificing performance, scalability, ease of use, and security. Oracles commitment to the Windows developers includes integration with ADO.NET and Visual Studio. For Windows administrators, Oracle has closely integrated with many operating services, such as Active Directory, Internet Information Services (IIS), Windows security, and Microsoft Cluster Services. Read this whitepaper to learn more about how Oracle Database 11g proivdes seamless interoperability between the operating system and the database. >>

By using a native, thread-based Windows service model, Oracle Database 11g ensures high performance and scalability. The Oracle database tightly integrates with the advanced features of the Windows operating system and the underlying hardware, such as Large Page and NUMA support. Oracle provides enterprise-class performance through support for large memory, large and raw files, and grid computing. >>

The 11g release of Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio (ODT) includes a host of powerful new features that make Oracle and .NET development easier and faster. These features make it convenient for Microsoft Visual Studio developers to stay in Visual Studio for the entire development lifecycle. The new features detailed in this paper are available for Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio .NET 2003. This release supports Oracle Database version 9.2 or later and is also compatible with any version of the Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) that your application may currently be standardized on. The Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio is a free product that is available for download from the www,otn.oracle.com. >>

One of the best-kept secrets in the IT industry is the depth of support Oracle offers to customers deploying its databases on Microsoft Windows platforms. This white paper will introduce you to carefully defined Windows integration points that can lead to operational efficiencies that deliver dramatic savings in time and money. From ensuring interoperability with core Windows features, such as Active Directory, to making sure Oracle Database and its tools work seamlessly with the popular Visual Studio development suite, companies of all sizes can benefit from deploying Oracle Database on Windows. >>

Historically organizations have relied on network and application security, leaving their databases and the sensitive information inside exposed. With Oracle Database 11g, organizations can now deploy reliable data security solutions that do not require any changes to existing applications. >>

Protecting against identity theft and credit card fraud requires security solutions that protect data at the source - the database. Universities and health care organizations are tightening security around personally identifiable information (PII) such as social security numbers while retailers are working to comply with PCI-DSS requirements. Oracle Advanced Security provides transparent, standards-based encryption solutions that protect data on the network, on disk and on backup media. >>

Based on stringent security requirements found in high security organizations, Oracle Label Security provides extensive and flexible label based access control capabilities to support the deployment of multi-level securityapplications in government and defense environments. Oracle Label Security overcomes the historic limitations of MLS systems with broad platform availability and extensive policy controls that can be finely tuned for specific environments. >>

Regulations and best practices require strong controls to secure sensitive data. Oracle Database Vault transparently prevents unauthorized access to application data as well as intentional or accidental harmful database changes by any users, even privileged users. Like a firewall inside your database, it allows access to data to be controlled by rules using many built-in or custom-defined factors, and can enforce separation of duties, least privilege, and many other policies mandated by regulations. >>

Information protection and control (IPC) requires enterprises to start by securing data at the source - their databases. This IDC white paper presents the benefits of a preemptive approach to IPC, and highlights the Oracle database helps enterprises protect themselves from costly data breaches. >>

Forrester Research analyst Jonathan Penn explains the importance of using data masking products, such as Oracle Data Masking, to prevent inadvertently exposing sensitive or regulated data in non-production environments, such as test or development, or when sharing data with business partners. >>

One of the world's premier authorities on data security, Rich Mogull, founder of Securosis and former analyst at Gartner, examines database security from the different perspectives of database administrators and security administrators. >>

Oracle Label Security is a flexible, powerful solution that can be used to address numerous operational issues related to security, compliance, and privacy. Used with Oracle Database Vault, Oracle Label Security label authorizations are factors that control access to applications, databases and data. Label authorizations can be used in conjunction with Oracle Virtual Private Database to mask out personally identifiable information. >>