April 24, 2012 - (Free Research) This week’s Computer Weekly examines research that suggests CEOs want to invest in IT more than ever, but still see CIOs as technical experts and not business people. We review SQL Server 2012 and ask if Microsoft's database software is catching its competitors as well as concluding our Buyer's Guide to data security.
March 20, 2012 - (Free Research) The problem with becoming too comfortable with built-in SQL Server monitoring tools is that they're often used after problems have already arisen. Read this paper to discover how event notifications and extended events can help you drill down into SQL Server and proactively monitor your databases.
September 28, 2011 - (Free Research) SQL Server performance management requires serious time, energy and patience! In this new white paper by Kevin Kline, discover detailed guidance on the issues you can relate to—from cache trashing to bad T-SQL that can return to haunt your applications.See how to maximize database scalability and efficiency with ease. Read the white paper today.
January 11, 2012 - (Free Research) In this paper, learn why the database layer is so important to the software selection of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Also compare Oracle database to SQL Server databases.
February 24, 2011 - (Free Research) This white paper highlights the new Master Data Services feature. This enhancement allows an organization to create a Master Data Hub that provides a “single source of truth” for the enterprise’s numerous data entities and hierarchies.
May 19, 2011 - (Free Research) This SearchSQLServer.com E-Guide offers expert insight about what organizations can do to improve the performance of their BI system and new ways to improve BI performance and scalability. In addition, you'll learn how to meet BI performance challenges.
July 13, 2009 - (Free Research) James Brissenden, Sr. Strategy Consultant at GlassHouse Technologies, discusses the issues surrounding restoring deduplicated data in this podcast.
December 29, 2010 - (Free Research) Active Administrator™ is a comprehensive and proactive Active Directory management solution. Active Administrator provides four powerful integrated AD management features within one console, including centralized event auditing and reporting, back-up and recovery, Group Policy offline editing and rollback, and simplified delegation of AD rights.
February 03, 2010 - (Free Research) This case study explains how Quantum DXi3500 Saves Virtual Iron Time & Money with 95% Reduction in Backup Volume and Saving $12,000 annually on tape media costs.
October 2008 - (Free Research) This case study explains how Quantum DXi3500 Saves Virtual Iron Time & Money with 95% Reduction in Backup Volume and Saving $12,000 annually on tape media costs.
March 2009 - (Free Research) When it was time to refresh the headquarters' IT infrastructure, the Earth Rangers IT group knew that any new computer systems had to meet their own high environmental standards. In this case study, you'll learn why they decided to create a virtualized server infrastructure using solutions from Dell and VMware and the benefits achieved.
March 2009 - (Free Research) Read this case study to learn how the Citizant IT group worked with Dell to design a virtualized IT infrastructure that includes VMware virtualization software to accommodate business growth, enhance IT flexibility, and improve worker productivity by creating a virtualized infrastructure in-house.
May 2011 - (Free Research) This short white paper from Dell and Symantec explores backup and recovery solutions for virtualized environments and recommends which products to use.
December 2008 - (Free Research) By working with Dell, the Peterson Sullivan IT group achieved its goals of creating a consolidated and scalable IT environment with strong backup and disaster recovery strategies.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Watch this illuminating video to learn more about data deduplication as well as how the Quantum DXi-Series disk backup and replication solutions leverage data deduplication technology to dramatically shrink your disk requirements and enable remote replication replication as a disaster recovery technique.
April 2009 - (Free Research) Read this customer case study to see how Canadian mutual fund company AIC Ltd. leveraged Quantum's DXi™5500 disk backup solution featuring data deduplication and replication technology in order to drastically reduce backup time as well as cut storage costs and management.
April 2011 - (Free Research) Oracle Corporation streamlines several business critical applications and enhances mission critical global single instance (GSI) database and enterprise resource planning (ERP) environment while lowering TCO and increasing performance.
July 2011 - (Free Research) This paper provides a detailed overview of EMC's data protection and disaster recovery solution for virtualized Oracle environments.