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whitepaper Yarra Valley Water Turns to Enterprise Software to Improve Information Flow2008-02-01 Oracle
  Yarra Valley Water (YVW) is the largest of the city of Melbourne's three metropolitan water retailers. To fulfill its mission, YVW decided to invest in a more flexible architecture and integrated billing, finance, asset management, and business intelligence systems. The company's existing technology platform was highly fragmented, with reporting undertaken in ad-hoc fashion and senior managers often working with superseded or incorrect information when making decisions. After a thorough evaluation process, YVW selected a range of Oracle products, including Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (BIEE), Oracle SOA Suite, and Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing to build the new environment.

Tags: Middleware, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper Agistix, Inc. Provides Additional Layer of Security to Online Transactions Without Sacrificing Performance2008-02-01 Oracle
  Agistix, Inc. is the leading provider of on-demand, carrier-neutral global logistics management solutions that enable companies to gain visibility and control of their global shipment process. Agistix, Inc. wanted to implement a solution with the ability to provide an additional layer of security to protect customer shipping data without impeding the user experience. The challenge was to minimize the impact of the security solution deployment on engineering resources and the company's network infrastructure. The company deployed Oracle Adaptive Access Manager to create a solution that provides strong security without having a negative impact on application performance or usability. It also increased security with the capability to verify multiple factors - such as the user's computer, location, and online behavior - to confirm user identity.

Tags: Network Security, Security Management		   
whitepaper Server Consolidation and the Combinatorial Effects of Multi-Core Processing, Virtualization, and Grid Technologies2008-02-01 eXludus
  Information Technology (IT) is a fast moving target, constantly pushing the limits of human creativity in developing innovative solutions to meet user demands. But never has IT faced as radical an evolution as the one underway. Through the combined use of Grid, Virtualization and Multi-core technologies everyone is witnessing unprecedented levels of scalability, flexibility, price-performance and manageability. These three technologies form that are define in this paper as a 'Three tier consolidation platform'. That is, each technology is view as a consolidation mechanism operating on a distinct level. Furthermore, the usefulness of each consolidation tier taken independently is limited, while combining all tiers at once holds huge potential. The sum can be greater than the parts!

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper IBM's Vision for the New Enterprise Data Center: A Breakthrough Approach for Efficient IT Service Delivery2008-02-01 IBM
  IBM's vision for the new enterprise data center is an evolutionary model that helps reset the economics of IT and can dramatically improve operational efficiency. It also can help reduce and control rising costs and improve provisioning speed and data center security and resiliency - at any scale. It will allow being highly responsive to any user need. And it aligns technology and business - giving the freedom and the tools one need to innovate - and stay ahead of the competition. Through the experience with thousands of client engagements, IBM has developed an architected approach based on best practices and proven implementation patterns and blueprints. And the own data center transformation provides first-hand proof that embracing this new approach simply makes good business sense.   
whitepaper Using Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 Job Scheduler2008-02-01 Microsoft
  Windows HPC Server 2008, the successor to Windows Compute Cluster Server (WCCS), includes a new Job Scheduler that provides greater scalability and supports advanced policies. The new Job Scheduler supports a new Service Oriented Architecture mode that provides access to interactive applications through the Windows Communication Framework. The graphical interface for the Job Scheduler is now fully integrated into the Administration Console, and the command-line interface now uses Windows PowerShell for all Job Scheduler functions, while maintaining compatibility with the command-line interface commands in WCCS. This paper explains the new Job Scheduler functionality.

Tags: Server Consolidation		   
whitepaper Sun and MySQL: How It Stacks Up for Developers2008-02-01 Sun Microsystems
  Most business analysts have applauded the announced acquisition by Sun Microsystems of open-source database provider MySQL AB. Although the business case for bringing MySQL under the Sun umbrella is clear, the acquisition leaves many developers wondering just what is in store for them. Developers want products that are easy to use during development, that are easy to scale to enterprise levels, and that will last long enough to repay the time investment required to master the technologies. Some MySQL community members wonder if they will continue to enjoy superior open-source products from the combined companies, and if the community will remain strong in the future.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper Information Management: Discovering the Business Value of Archived Information2008-02-01 Sun Microsystems
  The value of archived information (and even the definition of "archived" information) eludes many of today's IT decision makers. Unless driven by specific mandates or by defined applications (and hence clear business needs), most IT shops are missing opportunities to provide competitive advantage through the repurposing of historical information stored in archives. This paper explores the potential business value of information contained in the 30-plus exabytes of data stored in archives today.

Tags: Storage Management		   
whitepaper Oracle Database Security: Preventing Enterprise Data Leaks at the Source2008-02-01 IDG (International Data Group)
  This paper presents a preemptive approach to IPC. It discusses the growing internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data, and how enterprises must adopt database security best practices to prevent sensitive customer data or company information from being distributed within or outside the enterprise in violation of regulatory or company policies. It also highlights how Oracle provides security products that enterprises can leverage to protect themselves from costly data breaches.

Tags: Security Management		   
whitepaper Forklift Manufacturer Improves Processes, Increases Customer Satisfaction2008-02-01 Microsoft
  Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift Europe (MCFE) manufactures, sells, and distributes more than 18,000 forklifts each year throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The organization needed a way to capture sales and service information in a single repository and extend configuration and spare-parts order processes to its distributors throughout the region. Microsoft Dynamics CRM delivered out-of-the-box sales and service functionality, workflow automation, and management visibility into data. Equally important, MCFE was able to deliver a portal solution to its distributors, all on the Microsoft environment its people already knew and used.

Tags: CRM Software		   
whitepaper Performance of Environments Using DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition2008-02-01 IBM
  DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition V9.1 for Linux on zSeries (DB2 Connect) connects LAN-based systems and their applications to the company's mainframe host DB2 databases. Additionally, DB2 Connect can be used in a three tier environment and can act as a gateway concentrating large numbers of SQL connections from various clients to a fewer, well-defined number of connections to the DB2 database on z/OS. The focus of this paper is on the connection concentrator functions of DB2 Connect. This feature enables a predictable, controlled load on the database on z/OS from a DB2 Connect server and may reduce mainframe resource usage as fewer DB2 threads may be defined.