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White Papers
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Online Security: A Human Perspective
Businesses on average lose about 1.4% of their annual revenues to security incidents associated with cyber-fraud. It is not surprising that many consumers now view shopping online as a precarious experience. This white paper summarizes the findings from a research into online consumer behavior and outlines the proper mechanisms for introducing security measures to streamline security and improve end-user experience.
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2011 IOUG Data Security Survey: Databases More at Risk Than Ever
More than 300 database and information security professionals were recently surveyed on their data security practices. The results were disturbing with 60% saying that a data breach is likely, or they’re not sure what to expect, over the next 12 months. According to the report, despite well publicized successful attacks on databases and global regulations calling for data privacy protection, most organizations have still not put in place the controls needed to protect sensitive data and critical database infrastructure from abuse by insiders or attackers exploiting legitimate database access through SQL injection, stolen credentials, and other techniques. Download this complimentary copy of the 2011 IOUG Data Security Survey Report and see how your organization measures up.
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A Revolution in Agility: Business Integration Through Service Oriented Architecture
In today’s rapidly changing business environment, organizations of all types face one common and persistent challenge: how to become—and remain—agile enough to satisfy ever-increasing customer expectations and accommodate new compliance mandates, all while staying ahead of the competition. The solution is building business based on Service-Oriented Architecture principles. Read this white paper to learn how.
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Access Certification: Best Practices
As organizations deal with increasingly complex internal structures and an array of regulatory requirements, manual or piecemeal access control processes are no longer adequate. To ensure compliance, companies around the world are implementing automated certification processes that provide needed security and enable greater business agility.
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Achieving Business Agility with Application Grid
Companies are learning how to run their data centers more efficiently using less hardware, less software and less IT resources. These companies are turning to a new concept called application grid, an infrastructure layer beneath the application layer that pools and dynamically provisions the resources on which those applications run. Read this white paper to find out how Oracle Application Grid reduces costs, simplifies management, and enables more optimal allocation of resources.
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Webcasts
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4 Ways to Optimize Your Identity Management Implementation with Virtual Directories
Virtual Directories are often referred to as the Swiss Army Knives of Identity Management. They are extremely versatile, easy to deploy, and can enhance your identity management infrastructure without breaking the bank. Join this free webcast to learn about 4 key ways virtual directories can help you solve common challenges while reducing costs, accelerating deployments, and improving security.
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Embrace SOA and Squeeze More Functionality Out of Your Existing IT Systems
Service-oriented architecture – or SOA – helps you leverage existing infrastructure in new ways
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Oracle Fusion Middleware is Comprehensive and Integrated
Watch Thomas Kurian outline the value of Oracle`s comprehensive, integrated middleware suite.
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Oracle Fusion Strategy Briefing: Halfway to Fusion
Join leading Oracle Executives for an update on Oracle`s Fusion Strategy. Hear details on Fusion Architecture, Fusion Middleware, and Fusion Applications, as well as milestones Oracle achieved in 2005.
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SOA Leadership Roundtable
Industry experts discuss their real SOA implementation experiences.
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eWeek Podcasts
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Oracle Gets Partner Religion
In this eWeek Podcast, Mike Vizard talks with Raju Reddy, CEO and Founder of solution provider and global systems integrator Sierra Atlantic, about life as a partner in the Oracle economy.
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Oracle Killer on the Loose?
eWEEK analysts discuss an Oracle killer at SAP, and Black Hat`s impression of Microsoft, while Peter Coffee makes recommendations for addicted BlackBerry users.
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Oracle`s Red Hat Bombshell
In this eWEEK Podcast, we discuss Oracle`s Red Hat bombshell, the release of Firefox 2.0, Vista`s upgrade plan announced, and the use of NIST to test e-voting systems.
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Roundtable: Oracle vs. Red Hat
In this eWEEK podcast, Peter Coffee, Jim Rapoza, Jason Brooks, and Linux Watch discuss the impact of this week`s announcement by Oracle that it will offer full support for Red Hat Linux.
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Research Reports
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Edison Group, Comparative Management Costs Study: Oracle Database 11g vs. IBM DB2 Enterprise 9.5
This report is the latest in a series of Comparative Management Cost Studies (CMCS) comparing database management systems offered by other leading enterprise software vendors. This edition of the study compares IBM DB2 Enterprise 9.5 with Oracle Database 11g.
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Edison Group, Comparative Management Costs Study: Oracle Database 11g vs. Microsoft SQL Server 2008
In this paper presented by the Edison Group, reveals how Oracle Database widens the manageability lead over Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The study shows how Oracle Database can save 43% in time and 41% in database management costs over Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
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Forrester Enterprise Database Security Strategy for 2010
Today, all enterprises use database management system (DBMS) technology to store critical business data. All data is important, but private data matters most. Databases are often the prime target of attacks, largely because they hold the most-valuable data and are vulnerable unless carefully secured.
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Forrester ESB Wave Report
This Research Report prepared by Forrester Research provides an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of top enterprise service bus vendors across 100 criteria.
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Oracle Database 10g and Microsoft SQL Server Head-to-Head Comparison Study
This study from The Edison Group proves that Oracle Database 10g is easier to manage than Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
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Reviews
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Oracle Implements Thai Electronic Medical Records
In a partnership with the government of Thailand, Oracle will set up a national electronic health record system that will be used for clinical and research purposes. (eWEEK Review)
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Oracle9i Application Server
The industrial-strength reputation—and price tag—of Oracle`s database business
precedes its entry into application servers. (PC Magazine Review)
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Technology Briefs
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Drive Actions and Processes with Pervasive Business Intelligence
This technology brief discusses how you can ensure that your business intelligence is readily available and a seamless part of every business process with Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition.
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Optimizing Storage for Better TCO in Oracle Environments: Efficiency
Oracle engineers its storage products to tightly integrate with Oracle applications and databases, allowing Oracle applications to tap into the features of the storage products and deploy solutions that increase productivity and increase efficiency. Download this Executive Brief to discover the efficiency features built into Oracle’s storage portfolio.
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Optimizing Storage for Better TCO in Oracle Environments: Management
The Oracle storage portfolio is full of features that make it easier for IT professionals to manage their storage infrastructure, especially when they're using Oracle storage with Oracle applications. Easier management means the IT staff can devote more of its time to the products and services that directly benefit the organization's bottom line. Download this Executive Brief to learn more.
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Optimizing Storage for Better TCO in Oracle Environments: Performance and Scalability
Oracle storage products offer unrivaled performance and scalability, especially when they work together with Oracle software. Download this Executive Brief to learn how Oracle storage products help organizations with heavy transaction workloads and protect the investment in storage infrastructure.
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The Service-Oriented Approach: Getting Started
Embracing a service-oriented architecture is crucial to any company hoping to build a competitive edge—but where do you start?
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Product Demos
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Oracle Application Express Demo
Watch how you can easily consolidate data off spreadsheets into Oracle Database 10g and create a secure web application in minutes using your favorite web browser.
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Oracle Instant Portal Demo
See how easy it is to build a company, supplier or customer portal and watch as customizations such as branding and content updates are made using in-place editing.
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Tech Analyses
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Making the Business Case for Oracle Database 11g
Speed of adoption will depend on company’s pitch to executives.
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Videos
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Benefits of Oracle Database 11g
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.
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Experts Discuss Oracle Database 11g
Watch this video to hear why it's critical for DBAs to download Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and learn about some of the new features that make it easier to deploy, manage, tune, and secure your Oracle Database.
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Oracle Audit Vault Flash Demo
Siloed, scattered audit data complicates and slows organizational compliance with HIPAA, Sarbanes Oxley, PCI and a host of other data protection regulations. This brief video introduces and demonstrates the benefits Oracle Audit Vault, which securely automates and consolidates Oracle and non-Oracle audit data, reducing insider threats, improving compliance and lowering costs.
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Oracle Database Vault Flash Demo
Traditional security measures such as network firewalls are no longer adequate for today’s privacy, insider threats and compliance challenges. This brief video introduces and demonstrates the benefits of Oracle Database Vault, the only preventive database access control solution for privileged database users. Oracle Database Vault allows organizations to enforce separation of duties and create powerful, multi-factor authorization policies that help enforce security and regulatory policies.
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Rapid Bottleneck Identification Video: A Better Way to do Load Testing
How can you successfully test your applications and still meet your deadlines? Rapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to very quickly uncover Web application performance limitations and determine the impact of those limitations on the end user experience.
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Tutorials
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Oracle Application Express Tutorial
Follow this step-by-step tutorial to create secure web applications that run inside your database using Oracle Application Express. You`ll quickly learn how to easily build secure web forms, reports and charts.
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Oracle Database 10g Tutorial
Follow this step-by-step tutorial to learn Oracle Database 10g administration in less than 2 days. You’ll learn all about Oracle Database 10g from installation to backup and recovery to performance monitoring and more.
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