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Many IT organizations today use inefficient storage management techniques underneath their Oracle Databases that are based on traditional practices that are no longer the industry's best operating procedure. Given that most organizations are placing continual pressure on their IT departments to manage storage more efficiently, optimize performance, reduce storage costs and mitigate the risk of information loss, no one can afford to be underutilizing capabilities or applying outdated strategies. This document focuses on key Oracle Database 11g capabilities that help IT departments better optimize their storage infrastructure, enabling administrators to deliver a cost effective, scalable information management platform that is easy to manage, and that continues to deliver the performance and availability that today's businesses require. It's time to re-evaluate your storage management solutions; read this informative guide now.

Virtualization has brought undoubted benefits to organizations forced with consolidating data centers. However, despite its triumphs in large-scale organizations, virtualization can fall short in safeguarding against unplanned downtime or consolidating beyond servers in areas of storage, data, and applications. According to this IDG white paper, next-generation grid-based solutions and strategies are now addressing the same issues that virtualization can tackle, but without compromising uptime and service delivery. Read ahead to see how grid computing is delivering above and beyond the promises of virtualization. You'll also learn how grid computing is especially impactful in database consolidation with results like better availability, scalability, flexibility, lower costs, and better service levels of every kind.

Availability is a growing concern for all customers. Information, and the databases underlying that information, have become more and more integral to business processes and products. Simply put, windows of downtime for planned maintenance no longer exist. This informative white paper explains how the new Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node offers enhanced high availability for single-instance databases, protecting from both planned and unplanned downtime. Read ahead to see how Oracle RAC One Node provides:

• Always on single-instance database services
• Better consolidation for database servers
• Enhanced server virtualization
• Lower cost development and test platform for full RAC

In addition, you'll learn how it allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption.

Hear why it's critical for DBAs to download Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and learn about some of the new features to make it easier to deploy, manage, tune, and secure your Oracle Database.

Learn about some of our customer's favorite new features of Oracle Database 11g Release 2. Find out why this latest release is leaps and bounds better than Oracle Database 10g Release 2.

Get a taste for why customers are upgrading to Oracle Database 11g from the customers themselves, including: McKesson, VocaLink, LogicalTech, and others.

Oracle In-Memory Database (IMDB) Cache enables you to improve application transaction response time by caching the performance-critical subset of tables and table fragments from an Oracle database to the application tier. Caching data using IMDB Cache is superior to other caching techniques as it brings full relational functionality, incremental scalability coupled with location transparency, stellar performance, and automatic maintenance of data consistency. Read this white paper to learn how Oracle In-Memory Database Cache significantly reduces response time, while improving overall application throughput, by bringing data closer to the application, and by processing queries in an in-memory database.

The increasingly sophisticated nature of information theft, and the continued emergence of new data privacy protection regulations worldwide, requires strong data security. Effective information security starts by protecting data at the source—the databases in which it resides. Historically most organizations have relied on network perimeter and application level security to restrict access to sensitive data, leaving their databases and the sensitive information inside exposed. With Oracle Database 11g powerful privileged user and multi-factor access control, data classification, transparent data encryption, auditing, monitoring, and data masking, organizations can deploy reliable data security solutions that do not require any changes to existing applications, minimizing the costs associated with regulatory compliance and the deployment of strong internal controls.

Businesses today increasingly need to leverage a unified database platform to enable the deployment and consolidation of all their applications onto one common infrastructure. Whether supporting OLTP, DW or mixed workloads, a common infrastructure delivers the efficiencies and reusability the data center needs—and provides the reality of cloud computing in-house. This white paper examines how the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server allows companies to accelerate database performance, handle change and growth in scalable and incremental steps, and deliver mission-critical data availability and protection.

Businesses now demand more information, they want it sooner, and they are delivering more analytics to an ever-widening set of users and applications. The sizes of data warehouses are growing exponentially and more business processes are becoming automated, while more data is collected on more granular levels. This white paper provides an overview of Oracle's capabilities for data warehousing, and discusses the key features and technologies by which Oracle-based business intelligence and data warehouse systems easily integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes and analyze any data.

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