A detailed case study authored by Fidelity National Financial about its implementation of Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture – a best-practices blue print for deploying highly available systems. (less)

A successful SOA strategy must ensure data availability, reliability, performance, and scalability. A data grid infrastructure with clustered caching creates a competitive edge, improves financial performance, and sustains customer loyalty. (less)

successful SOA strategy must ensure data availability, reliability, performance, and scalability. A data grid infrastructure with clustered caching creates a competitive edge, improves financial performance, and sustains customer loyalty. (less)

This document considers the question of what is needed for midsize businesses to successfully implement and maintain database applications, considering limitations of budget, time, and expertise. (less)

This Oracle white paper describes how businesses of all sizes worldwide are using Grid best practices to modernize their IT operations and increase performance, availability, energy efficiency, and operational agility. (less)

This Oracle white paper describes how businesses of all sizes worldwide are using Grid best practices to modernize their IT operations and increase performance, availability, energy efficiency, and operational agility. (less)

This IDC white paper discusses the evolution of the data center toward grid computing and the role of Oracle Database 11g for businesses adopting grid computing. (less)

This white paper highlights the unique needs of midsize businesses and explores the factors driving them toward stronger identity management platforms, such as Oracle Identity Management. (less)

This white paper reviews the productivity issues facing mid-size businesses and discusses how Oracle Application Express (APEX) improves employee productivity and enhances development efficiencies. (less)

The growing number of high-profile data breach incidents and numerous information-intensive government and industry regulations requiring protection of personal information and corporate digital assets are forcing organizations to adopt proactive and cost-effective information protection and control (IPC) solutions. This new IDC report discusses the growing internal threats to business information, the impact of regulations on data protection, and how enterprises must adopt database security best practices to prevent theft of sensitive personal and corporate information. Learn how IDC believes that Oracle offer customers a comprehensive, integrated set of security products that address both insider threat mitigation and regulatory requirements (less)

In this white paper, Dwight Davis of Ovum Summit, outlines Oracle’s Windows integration capabilities, like ensuring interoperability with core Windows features, such as Active Directory, and making sure Oracle Database works seamlessly with Microsoft Visual Studio. (less)

This IDC white paper examines the need for application performance and availability optimization to ensure a productive workflow desktop, in middleware, in Web infrastructure, or end-to-end across enterprise-wide processes. (less)

Oracle Advanced Security provides transparent, standards-based security that protects data on the network, on disk and on backup media. Learn how to use the Oracle Advanced Security as a key component of your defense-in-depth strategy for protecting data in transit and at rest. (less)

Auditing is playing an increasingly important role in the areas of compliance, privacy, and security. Learn how Oracle Audit Vault automates the audit collection and analysis process, turning audit data into a key security resource to help address today's security and compliance challenges. (less)

This white paper focuses on ODP.NET data access and its unique capabilities, discussing .NET development features that are part of Oracle Database 11g and prior releases. (less)

The modern IT organization uses multiple application development languages and tools. This white paper outlines how Oracle Database 11g provides a single integrated platform, offering high performance and scalability for most popular technologies. (less)

Oracle Database 11g for Windows provides an optimized database solution for deployments that require enterprise scalability, reliability, and high performance. Learn more about Oracle Database on Windows architecture in this white paper. (less)

Enterprises face many challenges safeguarding data against internal and external threats and complying with data privacy regulations. This whitepaper outlines how Oracle Database 11g a comprehensive portfolio of security solutions to address these challenges. (less)

This paper presents a technical comparison between compression capabilities of Oracle Database and other vendors in the market. (less)

Strengthening internal controls for regulations, enforcing industry best practices, and guarding against insider threats are just a few of the challenges facing organizations in today's global economy. Controlling access to databases, applications and data requires sophisticated access controls that are enforced from within the database. Learn how Oracle Database Vault is the industry's leading solution for safeguarding data from unauthorized activity by any user, including privileged application or DBA users. (less)

Oracle Label Security can be used to address numerous operational issues related to security, compliance and privacy. Learn how label authorizations provide tremendous flexibility in making access control decisions and enforcing separation of duty. (less)

Oracle Label Security is a powerful, yet simple to use tool for classifying data. By applying labels to data, government agencies can enforce “need to know” and other data compartmentalization policies. Read this white paper to learn best practices to successfully use Oracle Label Security to restrict access to sensitive information in government and defense applications. (less)

This paper provides a technical evaluation of Microsoft’s clustering technologies as compared to Oracle Real Application Clusters. (less)

This white paper identifies the decision factors in moving to a high availability solution, and how Oracle Real Application Clusters provides a fault-tolerant, scalable and cost-effective solution for growing businesses. (less)