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Coca-Cola Bottling Co. saves more than USD1 million and improves database performance by 30-60 percent when it migrates from Oracle Database to IBM DB2. The migration to DB2 took only five months. Read the case study to find out more. VIEW SUMMARY

The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of IBM DB2 on their organisations. This study illustrates the financial impact of adopting IBM DB2 for both SAP and non-SAP applications. VIEW SUMMARY

When you move from Oracle WebLogic to IBM®WebSphere® Application Server you can save as much as 57 percent on first-year licensing and support with WebSphere. Also, WebSphere enables more virtualisation options such as VMware and Xen and you only pay for the cores you use when you virtualise. VIEW SUMMARY

Google recently announced the end of life of its Postini email security service - as a result, all Postini customers will have to migrate to the Google Apps platform or find an alternative solution. Read this paper to learn how to take the pain out of moving away from Google's platform. VIEW SUMMARY

10% of retail IT professionals experience downtime of their POS systems on a daily basis. The availability of your POS systems means the difference between making a sale or losing business to a competitor. This paper presents the top ten IT management pain points in retail environments. VIEW SUMMARY

This paper examines the difficulties organisations encounter as they seek to straddle the conflicting pressures of ever increasing email volumes on one hand, and the need for faster, more flexible accessibility on the other as well as the practices and policies currently in use when archiving emails VIEW SUMMARY

Server Capacity Defrag refers to an approach to server optimisation through strategic workload placement to maximize VM density on hosts. This paper outlines how to leverage analytics to match workloads together so users can increase density and fit more workloads into environments. VIEW SUMMARY

Most organisations that license software such as Windows, SQL Server, Oracle Weblogic and Oracle Database on a per processor or per host basis are spending far more than is required. By optimising VM placements, organisations can achieve savings of greater than 50%. VIEW SUMMARY

To adequately protect any environment within an organisation, a picture of the entire security posture has to be established as a whole. This video explains an approach of integrating database security to the overall view of the organisation on its IT security infrastructure. Watch to find out how. VIEW SUMMARY

PST files, once a viable means to manage mailboxes, are now an intolerable risk to businesses. This paper discusses specifically PST elimination budgeting and justification, which will provide you with the steps you need to take to effectively budget and gain buy-in for PST elimination projects. VIEW SUMMARY