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Case Studies

• Case Study: International Bank (86 KB pdf file)
  

  Banking customer needed local, multi-state support in the area of data storage and virtualization.

• Case Study: Large Regional High School (50 KB pdf file)
  

  Large regional high school serving 3000 students through 2 campuses streamlined their administration activities and virtualized their environment while maintaining business continuity.

Case Studies-Partners

• Partner Case Study: Oracle Exadata Customer Reference Booklet (1 MB pdf file)
  

  This Customer Reference Booklet details several worldwide Oracle Exadata customer references and includes information on business challenges addressed, benefits realized and customer quotes for each customer.

E-Books

• E-Book: Navigating the Data Warehouse Appliance Selection and Purchase Process (265 KB pdf file)
  

  In this eBook, IT and data warehousing professionals and business executives involved in data warehouse purchases will get an overview of data warehouse appliance trends and practical advice on how to evaluate and choose the right appliances for their organizations.

Multimedia

• Video: Advanced Capacity Management

  Ben Muise is a Senior Systems Engineer with Continental Resources. He has been with ConRes for 25 years and has spent the last 5 years specializing in server consolidation and virtualization. In this informative video Ben talks about how Oracle's M4000/5000 series can help you address server consolidation.

• Video: Oracle Database Appliance

  The Oracle Database Appliance is a fast, reliable, database solution offering flexibility for a variety of industries and businesses.

• Video: The Role of Tape Storage in Today's Enterprise

  Join Mark Marro, product champion at ConRes, as he discusses the role of tape storage in today's enterprise. Mark will talk about the benefits of using tape storage, in particular Oracle's Sun tape product line.

• Webinar: Advanced Capacity Management with Server Technology (Forrester Research and ConRes)

  Today, IT organizations have an ever-increasing need for computing power. Today, leaders can deploy advanced virtualization technology to share the physical server infrastructure across the application portfolio, increasing efficiency and driving down costs. A key challenge is selecting the right solution, configuring it and ensuring a successful deployment. You need to select complimentary components that interoperate well in heterogeneous environments. Join Rich Fichera, from Forrester Research and Ben Muise, from Continental Resources (ConRes), as they discuss their perspectives on how organizations can gain the best benefits from new server technologies.

• Webinar: Boost Data Storage Efficiency with Open Storage

  Oracle's Sun Open Storage solutions offer more flexibility and superior storage economics than traditional data storage architecture, and allow IT teams to quickly find and fix issues, minimize downtime, and reduce the cost of deployment. Join us and learn more about how you can leverage the benefits of open storage to meet today’s challenging storage requirements.

• Webinar: Discover What the World's Fastest Database Machine Can Do for You

  Oracle’s customers are saying that Oracle Exadata is helping them exceed their own expectations—pushing database performance, facilitating decision-making, and cutting budgets thanks to new levels of efficiency. Join Ben Muise, ConRes Senior Systems Engineer, for an in-depth update on Oracle Exadata's game-changing technology. Ben has been with ConRes for 25 years supporting Fortune 1000 companies, government and academia. In this informative webinar you'll learn why a database machine that delivers extreme performance for online transaction processing and data warehousing applications can revolutionize your business.

• Webinar: Open Storage - A High Performance Solution That Fits Your Budget

  Is exponential data growth challenging your IT managers to scale storage capacity while delivering high performance and staying within tight IT budgets? Join Continental Resources (ConRes) and Frost & Sullivan experts for an in-depth discussion on how Open Storage solutions combine the benefits of open-source software with industry-standard hardware – reducing your reliance on high-priced systems and saving up to 70% on storage costs.

• Webinar: Oracle Exadata Forrester

  Join Forrester Research for an informative webinar on how Oracle Exadata Database Machine provides faster reporting and just-in-time queries and scalability to meet future storage requirements.

• Webinar: The Role of Tape in Today's Enterprise (ConRes and Forrester Research)

  If you think tape is dead, think again. Despite the perception that tape is an older technology, tape, tape drives and libraries continue to develop with new technology, performance and ROI. Join Continental Resources (ConRes) Solutions Architect, Mark Marro and Rachel Dines from Forrester Research as they answer the question "What is the role of tape in today’s enterprise?"

Partner Profiles

• Partner Profile: Oracle (335 KB pdf file)
  

  Oracle (and Sun) & ConRes have been partners since 1995. Oracle (and Sun) specifications; solution offerings; and key customers segments.

Presentations

• Presentation: Oracle Database Appliance (1 MB pdf file)
  

  The Oracle Database Appliance, part of the world's most popular database, features fully redundant hardware, highly reliable software, and is easy to manage.

• Presentation: Oracle Database Appliance - Data Protection Strategies (643 KB pdf file)
  

  The Oracle Database Appliance is a one box server, storage, and networking appliance.Learn about the Database Appliance and protection strategies in his presentation. Highlights include DataGuard,RMAN & Oracle Secure Backup, and more.

• Presentation: Oracle SPARC SuperCluster (3 MB pdf file)
  

  Read about the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster, and other engineered systems and applications available from Oracle.

• Presentation: Oracle SPARC T4 Systems (1 MB pdf file)
  

  Learn about the Oracle SPARC advantage and the benefits of SPARC T4 Systems for your enterprise.

Solution Sheets

• Data Sheet: FAQ - Oracle Database Appliance (950 KB pdf file)
  

  Frequently asked questions about the Oracle Database Appliance, including specifications, benefits, uses, and more.

• Data Sheet: Oracle Database Appliance (908 KB pdf file)
  

  Features, specifications, benefits, and more information on the Oracle Database Appliance.

• Data Sheet: Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 (784 KB pdf file)
  

  Extreme Performance for Online Transaction Processing, Data Warehousing and Consolidating Mixed Workloads

• Data Sheet: Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-8 (702 KB pdf file)
  

  Extreme Performance for Online Transaction Processing, Data Warehousing and Consolidating Mixed Workloads

• Data Sheet: Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 (366 KB pdf file)
  

  The SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 solution is a completely optimized package of servers, storage and software. Learn more detailed information in this data sheet.

• Data Sheet: Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliances (1 MB pdf file)
  

  Oracle's SUN ZFS Storage Appliances offer simple data management combined with storage efficiency.

• Solution Sheet: Oracle ASM Database (718 KB pdf file)
  

  The integration between F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) and Oracle Database Firewall provides richer forensic information on SQL injection attacks through correlated reporting.

• Solution Sheet: Partnerships and Solutions Overview (691 KB pdf file)
  

  Comprehensive list of partner relationships, certifications, and roster of professional services.

Whitepapers and Briefs

• Business Brief: Advanced Capacity (417 KB pdf file)
  

  Data center-class servers from Oracle deliver a host of business benefits, including a smaller data center footprint, hardware purchasing and maintenance savings, flexibility, and more.

• Business Brief: Oracle Exadata: Speed, Performance, Availability and Efficiency (534 KB pdf file)
  

  Oracle Exadata Database Machine solves database issues at the business and IT level, providing organizations with better reporting to positively impact business decisions, while simultaneously reducing complexity and cost in the IT environment.

• Technical Brief: Advanced Capacity (498 KB pdf file)
  

  Simplify the data center through virtualization

• Technical Brief: Oracle Exadata: The Database of the Future (537 KB pdf file)
  

  Delivering faster performance, greater scalability and improving efficiencies in data processing, Oracle Exadata Database Machine is the Database of the future

• Technical Brief: Tape Storage in Today's Enterprise (616 KB pdf file)
  

  Advances in tape technology and new uses for it means tape still has a relevant role in any data center.

• Whitepaper: Exadata Exceeds Expectations (151 KB pdf file)
  

  What became clear from the start, and was reinforced by numerous customer panels as well as one-on-one interviews with users, was that Oracle's claims regarding Exadata's speed, efficiency, and scalability were not hype.

• Whitepaper: Oracle Database Appliance (444 KB pdf file)
  

  The Oracle Database Appliance is a new engineered systems hardware and software offering that saves time and money by simplifying deployment, maintenance, and support of high availability database solutions. It's simple to manage, and simple to use. Built with mid-sized companies in mind, the Oracle Database Appliance offers "pay-as-you-grow" licensing for up to 24 core processors.

• Whitepaper: Oracle Solaris and Oracle SPARC T4 Servers for Cloud Deployments (3 MB pdf file)
  

  Learn how Oracle Solaris and Oracle SPARC T4 processors help organizations manage costs for their existing infrastructures or for new enterprise cloud infrastructure design.

• Whitepaper: Oracle SPARC T4 Series Server Architecture (2 MB pdf file)
  

  Oracle's SPARC T4 processors and servers offer reliable performance and energy efficiency within your data center infrastructures. Learn about the Oracle SPARC T4 series in this whitepaper.

• Whitepaper: The Role of Tape in Today's Enterprise (637 KB pdf file)
  

  If you think tape is dead, think again. Tape is a key part of a comprehensive enterprise storage management solution.