The POWER of Enterprise Data Management
By Suzanne Schroeder With the recent acquisition of Princeton Softech as an IBM Company, IBM is making strides to expand its Data Governance portfolio.

The POWER of Enterprise Data Management:IBM Information on Demand Follow-up IBM Optim Attracts Attention at IBM Information On Demand 2007
By Suzanne Schroeder As one of the newest additions to the IBM family, Princeton Softech, an IBM Company, certainly held its own at the 2007 IBM Information on Demand (IOD) Conference

User Groups: Networking to the Newest Technology
By Suzanne Schroeder Hear what Steve Johnston, one of Princeton Softech’s Field Marketing Managers, has to say about the impact of user groups and trade associations on an organization. Find out how your business can benefit.

Using Reliable Datagram Sockets Over InfiniBand for Oracle Database 10g Clusters
By Zafar Mahmood, Anthony Fernandez and Gunnar K. Gunnarsson Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) Over InfiniBand can provide a horizontally scalable, high-performance alternative to traditional vertical scaling for enterprises using Oracle® Database 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC). This article discusses the advantages of using RDS Over InfiniBand to build scalable, high-performance Oracle RAC clusters with cost-effective, industry-standard DellTM and QLogic components.

Deploying Dell PowerVault MD3000 Storage in Oracle Database 10g Cluster Environments
By Mahmoud Ahmadian and Chethan Kumar The DellTM PowerVaultTM MD3000 storage array offers cost-effective enterprise storage that can scale to help meet future storage and application server requirements. This article discusses the benefits possible when deploying the PowerVault MD3000 along with Oracle® Database 10g with Oracle Real Application Clusters and Dell PowerEdgeTM servers.

Using Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing in Application Messaging Infrastructures
By Ramkumar Rajagopal and Mahmoud Ahmadian Oracle® Streams Advanced Queuing (SAQ) helps provide a flexible, scalable message queuing infrastructure through enqueue, propagation, and apply mechanisms. This article provides an overview of Oracle SAQ, describes an example messaging application created and tested by Dell engineers to demonstrate its functionality and performance, and discusses a number of available Oracle queue management tools.

Connecting to Oracle from Ruby on Rails
By Obie Fernandez Learn how to connect to Oracle from a Rails application and related authentication and performance issues.

Tagging with Oracle and Ruby on Rails
By Matt Kern Clear the confusion and add tags and tag clouds to your Oracle+Rails application.

Easy Integration: From XML to the Datastore Without the Mess
By Matt Kern Enforce simple persistence of XML data to Oracle using ActiveRecord and XML::Mapping.

Build Your Own Oracle RAC Cluster on Oracle Enterprise Linux and iSCSI
By Jeffrey Hunter Learn how to set up and configure an Oracle RAC 10g Release 2 development cluster on Oracle Enterprise Linux for less than US$2,600.