White Paper Highlights Key Oracle Database 11g Capabilities
A 22-page Oracle white paper focuses on key Oracle Database 11g capabilities that its authors believe can help IT departments better optimize their storage infrastructure and enable administrators to deliver a cost effective, scalable information management platform, which is easy to manage, and continues to deliver the required performance and availability needed in their datacenters.
Apply Different Rates of Compression Based on Data Usage, Query Patterns
A new technical white paper on Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression (EHCC) explains what Exadata compression is and how it works. Considered an important feature for data warehouse customers, Exadata compression increases performance while reducing the overall cost of storage. Warehouse compression and archive compression are two new Oracle Exadata Storage Server features highlighted in this December 2009 eight-page Oracle white paper.
Hybrid storage pools (HSPs) enable users to deploy multiple types of storage media together and manage them as a single pool. An Oracle-Sun white paper provides insight into HSPs and discusses their primary benefits, including increased throughput without a full-scale SSD deployment; simplified and centralized management of hybrid storage environments; increased flexibility and scalability for future performance or capacity issues; and much more.
The Sun Storage Solutions white paper “Turbo-charging HPC Application Performance with Flash Storage: Changing the Focus from Processing to Moving Data Faster” contends that, with ever more CPU cores and more GFLOPS per core, HPC application performance will be determined by the ability to move data in and out of fast processors. This paper examines how Flash technology can be deployed and the effect it will have on HPC workloads. It examines various Flash technologies and compares their performance on leading HPC application benchmarks. Finally, the performance characteristics of the Flash-based Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System is described.
Architect a Highly Available GlassFish ESB Solution Right from the Planning Stage
GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a lightweight and agile integration product suite for services-based and composite application development. A recently released Sun white paper details a reference architecture for a typical deployment solution based on a real-world system that manages a customer’s loan application process. The solution accepts requests via web services-based interfaces, manages corresponding business processes, handles faults correctly and integrates with existing back-end systems.
Find Out More About Sun’s Latest x64 Server in an Architecture-focused White Paper
Get scalable and manageable x64 computing in dense and serviceable rackmount enclosures with the Sun Fire X4640 server. Based on the latest six-core AMD Opteron processors, this server can help scale, virtualize, and consolidate datacenter infrastructure. Learn how in a 44-page Sun white paper that examines the server’s architecture, along with its key software components.
Sun White Paper Offers a Methodology to Help Enterprises Assess Applications, Services
A Sun white paper discusses points to consider when deciding whether to move applications, services or components into the cloud. It defines a methodology to help enterprises determine whether an application can be ported to run in the cloud, or if it can be refactored or optimized to make the move, and if it is worth it. An example of using the methodology is presented in an assessment of a two-tier Web service, while another example involves enterprise database cluster.
IDC White Paper Discusses How Sun’s Solution Addresses Customers’ Pain Points
An IDC white paper written by Jean S. Bozman examines the rise and needs of high availability in a virtualized world. Spotlighted is the Solaris Cluster and how it addresses many pain points experienced by IT operations looking to improve availability for applications and databases, while utilizing virtualization technologies.
The Sun white paper “Identity and Access Management: Enabling HIPAA/HITECH Compliance” explores the requirements that healthcare organizations and vendors face as they become more reliant on digital information technology and the need to comply with increasing regulatory requirements, which presents a range of challenges. Author Mark Dixon includes best practices for implementing identity management systems that help ensure compliance, and shows how Sun’s pragmatic approach to identity management simplifies the technology environment.
Details Systems Architecture, Key Software Components
Get details on the systems architecture of the Sun Fire X4140, X4240, and X4440 servers, and learn more about their key software components in a 52-page PDF. Sun Fire X4140, X4240, and X4440 servers provide a range of dense and scalable systems based on the latest quad- and six-core AMD Opteron processors.
