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SOA - Lifestyle Governance

Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) promise unlimited agility and organizational flexibility. However, achieving these benefits is entirely contingent upon the ability to effectively manage the SOA environment across the enterprise. Get an overview of strategies and practices for governing the transformation to, and the evolution of, SOA. In particular, it explores the role of governance throughout the SOA lifecycle as well as the technology enablers that help organizations develop and maintain an SOA that delivers measurable, sustainable business value.

Application Grid - Achieving Business Agility

Companies are learning how to run their data centers more efficiently using less hardware, less software and less IT resources. These companies are turning to a new concept called application grid, an infrastructure layer beneath the application layer that pools and dynamically provisions the resources on which those applications run. Application grid brings the same type of efficiency, scalability, and quality of service to the application layer that database clusters brings to the database layer. With an application grid you get greater efficiency, exceptional agility, and superior quality of service. Download this free white paper now.

Database - Lower IT Costs with 11g Release 2

Organizations across the world are using grid computing with Oracle to make the most of their IT resources. And now, Oracle is making grid computing even more accessible. Learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. You'll discover how its new options and features can help you reduce server and storage costs, improve query performance, and ensure availability during database application upgrades.

Enterprise Manager - Computer eBook: Enterprise Management Flyover

What are the key trends driving IT management? This eBook provides the answers with in-depth articles on how organizations are driving down costs, reducing risks and increasing quality of service and agility. A sample of the selected articles in this eBook provides insight on:

  • Ensuring Web Service Quality for SOA
  • Oracle Real Application Testing
  • Data Masking Resources
  • Manageability for Oracle E-Business Suite
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