A Database is a collection of records stored in a computer in a systematic way, so that a computer program can consult it to answer questions. For better retrieval and sorting, each record is usually organized as a set of data elements (facts). The items retrieved in answer to queries become information that can be used to make decisions. The computer program used to manage and query a database is known as a database management system (DBMS).
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The Total Cost of Email: Putting a Price Tag On Your Email Environment
published by Mimecast on Feb 05, 2010
You can't afford to ignore email archiving, security, internal policy or regulatory requirements, but can you afford to keep paying for it as multiple systems on top of your email system? When you add up the full price tag for your email environment, from server to soft ware to risk management and staff costs, it becomes clear why running everything in-house can mean you spend far more of your budget on maintenance than innovation.
Open Source Master Data Management: The Time is Right
published by Talend on Feb 01, 2010
Many organizations consider high quality master data as a key strategy for accomplishing corporate objectives. Proper master data management (MDM) is indeed extremely valuable when available to enterprise business processes and analytics, however, master data projects are often politically challenging, architecturally complex, time intensive and expensive. MDM is a natural extension to data integration and data quality. Open source MDM introduces a new, more accessible approach. It reduces implementation complexity, time to value and cost. In fact, as in many other markets, open source helps organizations overcomes obstacles and realize their goals. This White Paper provides an explanation of why the time is right for open source MDM, and predicts the effects of open source on the MDM marketplace.
Practical Open Source Data Integration: Case Studies & Implementation Examples (Vol. 3)
published by Talend on Feb 01, 2010
Over the past few years, commercial open source vendors have been providing a real alternative to proprietary players. In the data integration space, enterprise grade open source solutions are adopted by many organizations for their data integration and data quality projects. These organizations span all industries, all continents, and all company sizes. More importantly, their projects range from ETL for business intelligence to operational data, data quality, master data management, etc. This third volume of Practical Open Source Data Integration: Case Studies & Implementation Examples presents selected case studies, illustrating real-life implementations of open source data integration and its associated benefits.
High Performance for Integrating Massive Data Volumes
published by Talend on Feb 01, 2010
Processing very large data sets provides unique constraints, especially when time windows available for this processing are shrinking. This Technical White Paper presents a variety of technologies that are available for accelerating the processing of large data volumes, including massive parallelization, optimized data-set-mode processing based on Map Reduce, grid deployment, and load balancing.
A Roadmap to Data Migration Success
published by SAP on Jan 19, 2010
Many significant business initiatives and large IT projects depend upon a successful data migration. Your goal is to minimize as much risk as possible through effective planning and scoping. This paper will provide insight into what issues are unique to data migration projects and offer advice on how to best approach them.
Preventive Maintenance Strategy for Data Centers
published by APC by Schneider Electric on Dec 17, 2009
In the broadening data center cost-saving and energy efficiency discussion, data center physical infrastructure preventive maintenance (PM) is sometimes neglected as an important tool for controlling TCO and downtime. PM is performed specifically to prevent faults from occurring. IT and facilities managers can improve systems uptime through a better understanding of PM best practices.
Dynamic Power Variations in Data Centers and Network Rooms
published by APC by Schneider Electric on Dec 17, 2009
The power requirement required by data centers and network rooms varies on a minute by minute basis depending on the computational load. This magnitude of this variation has grown and continues to grow dramatically with the deployment of power management technologies in servers and communication equipment.
Making Large UPS Systems More Efficient
published by APC by Schneider Electric on Dec 17, 2009
As energy resources become scarcer and more expensive, electrical efficiency is becoming a more important performance factor in the specification and selection of large UPS systems. There are three subtle but significant factors that can materially affect a company's cost of operating a UPS system and particularly the electrical bill. Unfortunately, the people who specify systems often fail to recognize these factors, which leads to increased costs to the owner because operational efficiencies are not correctly considered.
Virtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling to Maximize Benefits
published by APC by Schneider Electric on Dec 17, 2009
Data centers are routinely and unknowingly missing a great portion of their entitlement from virtualization. Beyond virtualization's undisputed IT benefits - from reduced rack footprint to disaster recovery - is the parallel story of a substantial benefit from optimizing the physical infrastructure that supports it.
Today Top Imperatives for Preventing Data Loss
published by Varonis on Dec 14, 2009
Varonis Systems is a software company unilaterally focused on data governance. Our software solutions deliver on the ten imperatives for protecting unstructured data by showing exactly who has access to its, how individuals are using their permissions and who should have their access revoked.
Get More IT Resources - 10 Things You Can Do Today
published by Varonis on Dec 14, 2009
Varonis DatAdvantage automates these 10 IT must do's. DatAdvantage delivers the visibility and automated auditing you need to determine who can access your unstructured data, who is accessing it and who should have access.
The Business Case for Data Governance
published by Varonis on Dec 14, 2009
Varonis DatAdvantage provides an innovative new way to tackle data governance, by correlating Active Directory users and groups with the file systems and folders that they access.
3 Tips for Faster File System Auditing
published by Varonis on Dec 14, 2009
How do you know who can access a folder with sensitive data in it? Who authorized a user to have access permission to a file and how? If a key file was deleted, how would you know it happened, or who did it? How do you make sure that the right people have access to your data? Download the whitepaper to find out how Varonis solutions answers these questions.
3 Steps to Faster Data Migrations and Consolidations
published by Varonis on Dec 14, 2009
Varonis is uniquely able to identify the data owners and data users for unstructured data on file servers and NAS devices. It does this through comprehensive data access auditing that has no performance impact on storage servers.
The Top 10 Reasons for Choosing Open Source Data Integration
published by Talend on Sep 09, 2009
Are you trying to understand your options for data integration?
Energy Efficient Cooling for Data Centers: A Close-Coupled Row Solution
published by APC by Schneider Electric on Aug 21, 2009
The trend of increasing heat densities in data centers has held consistent with advances in computing technology for many years. As power density increased, it became evident that the degree of difficulty in cooling these higher power demand loads was also increasing. This article discusses the efficiency benefits of row-based cooling compared to two other common cooling architectures. Learn more today!
Modernization & consolidation of existing scheduling tools into UC4 Workload Automation Suite
published by UC4 Software on Jul 22, 2009
This document describes automation tools that are used in an organization, the problems of using different tools and the advantages of consolidating them nto a central automation solutions such as UC4 Workload Automation Suite. Learn more today!
How about Solving the Change Management Challenge with Discovery and Dependency Mapping?
published by ASG Software Solutions on Mar 10, 2010
Configuration Management is at the heart of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and forms the foundation for Business Service Management (BSM). In fact, it is safe to say that neither the ITIL IT Service Management (ITSM) processes nor the BSM functions that leverage ITSM can be efficiently carried out without accurate configuration and dependency information.
Optimizing The End-User Experience Across Your Enterprise
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
End-user expectations and high levels of performance against Service Level Agreements (SLAs) must be achieved or organizations risk the loss of business. This paper details key capabilities needed for successful end-user monitoring and provides critical considerations for delivering a successful end-user experience.
ASG's BSP: Beyond Business Service Management
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
For more than a decade, true BSM has been a goal for businesses, as well as a promise from potential providers. In reality, a good BSM plan goes beyond the standards of typical IT management; it fuses the goals of IT and business. This white paper introduces the use of a Business Service Platform (BSP) as the foundation of an effective BSM solution.
Third-Party White Paper by EMA: SLM and BSM: The Future of IT Management. Are You Ready?
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
SLM helps ensure that committed levels of service quality are delivered - SLM is the process of setting, measuring, and ensuring the maintenance of IT service goals. BSM is an approach to IT service management that optimizes the performance of the business. BSM provides a mapping between business objectives and the IT services that support those objectives.
Strategies to Cut Application Costs and Increase Productivity Using Application Mining Tools
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
Application Portfolio Optimization (APO) provides executives with tools and information to assess the quality and condition of application assets as well as a means for understanding the impact of proposed application changes.
Third-Party White Paper by Yphise: Succeeding with Proactive IT with ASG's metaCMDB
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
To meet the challenges of intense competition and increasing customer demands, companies must tightly align their IT service management with business issues and priorities. This paper outlines the maturity steps involved in the progression towards proactive Business Service Management (BSM) and explains how ASG's metaCMDB helps secure its seamless adoption.
ASG: Distinctively Positioned to Optimize Web Application Performance
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
Application management requires visibility from multiple vantage points within the IT enterprise, combined with a centralized information store that pulls the technology pieces of the application puzzle into a coherent whole.
Achieving Better ROI from Composite Applications through Better Understanding, by EMA
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
Composite applications can provide multiple benefits, such as business agility, better utilization of business software assets through code reuse, development efficiencies, and cost optimization. Once companies are skilled at deploying them, many find that they roll out new applications and integrations faster, while maximizing the value of "tried and true" software components.
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