White Papers

We at UniVirtual Solutions provide as much knowledge transfer as possible and we like to keep our customers informed of the most relavent and latest IT technical documentation. We have listed out some of the most popular white papers that our customers have found useful. Our Remote DBAs and System Adminstrators update our whitepapers daily.

Database Management

Oracle Database 11g: Manageability Overview
The Oracle database is the market-leader and the preferred database for hundreds
of thousands of enterprises as well as application developers and database
administrators worldwide. Over the years...
Company: Oracle; Date: August 2007

Microsoft SQL Server 2008: Product Overview
In today’s data-driven world, data and the systems that manage that data must always be secure and available. SQL Server 2008 enables IT to be more productive by providing a more secure, scalable, and manageable enterprise data platform with reduced application downtime...
Company: Microsoft; Date: July 2008

Reduce Your Server Footprint with SQL Server 2008
Organizations today want to do more with less, especially in these tough economic times. This is where SQL Server 2008 can help. By improving the SQL Server engine in version 2008, Microsoft provides organizations with the opportunity...
Company: Resolutions Enterprises; Date: February 2009

Oracle Backup and Recovery: New backup and recovery features in Oracle Database 11g save time and data
A sound database backup and recovery plan is crucial to protecting data in the event of media loss and physical corruption on production storage systems. Oracle backup and recovery technologies enable...
Company: Oracle; Date: May 2008

Optimizing HP Servers with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
When implementing a hardware consolidation project, one major step involves consolidating corporate data, which is mostly managed by multiple database engines. This activity requires high-performance servers...
Company: Hewlett-Packard (HP); Date February 2008

Virtualization

20 Things You Should Know About Virtualization
Virtualization has been a major buzzword in the IT world for a few years. Now the buzz is getting bigger, with the release of Windows Server 2008 and the impending integration of the Hyper-V virtualization component...
Company: TechRepublic; Date: May 2008

Desktop Solutions from VMware: Delivering Desktops as a Secure Managed Service with VMware View
As more enterprise employees work from home or in remote offices, managing desktops
in an efficient and cost-effective way has become a key goal for all IT departments. But
existing desktop environments link together desktop components—hardware, operating
system, applications, user profile and data—in ways that are very difficult...
Company: VMWare; Date: January 2010

Windows 7 Migration Solutions from VMware
Microsoft Windows 7 is now a reality, bringing with it the promise of a feature rich
operating system to both end users and IT organizations. But in order to realize these
benefits, IT organizations are faced with the daunting task of migrating hundreds or
thousands of desktops. Upgrading this volume of users can be very complicated
and expensive to accomplish in a timely manner...
Company: VMWare; Date: January 2010

Database Virtualization

Database Virtualization: A New Frontier for Database Tuning and Physical
Design
Resource virtualization is currently being employed at all levels of the IT infrastructure to improve provisioning and manageability, with the goal of reducing total cost of ownership. This means that database systems will increasingly be run in virtualized environments, inside virtual machines.
This has many benefits...
Company: Univirsity of Waterloo; Date: January 2007

Oracle VM High Availability: Hands-on Guide to Implementing Guest VM HA
One of the key benefits of Oracle VM server virtualization and management solution is the capability to deploy the technology on industry standard x86/x86-64 servers and support a broad range of network and storage devices...
Company: Oracle; Date: April 2009

Oracle Real Application Clusters in Oracle VM Environments
Running today’s non-critical business applications in virtualized environments has
shown to be efficient and cost saving. More sophisticated or highly available
applications on the other hand were most likely incompatible with commonly used
software based virtualization solutions...
Company: Oracle; Date: April 2009