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  • Oracle, system integrator develop new HR product

    Oracle and system integrator BearingPoint's jointly-developed application shows how vendors and SIs build new applications. The product, which aims to streamline the new-hire process, is built with Oracle's Fusion middleware SOA. 

  • Service-oriented management in the channel

    Service-oriented management (SOM) is becoming a hot channel opportunity. Dan Sullivan, author of "The Definitive Guide to Service-Oriented Systems Management," recently discussed how VARs can take advantage of this systems management approach. 

  • Oracle database management client concerns

    Oracle database management poses many challenges for end users attempting to assess performance problems, decipher error messages and determine solutions. Get a heads-up on some of the questions asked of sister site SearchOracle.com's experts, so you... 

  • High-availability options in SQL Server 2008

    SQL Server 2008's high-availability options can address all of your customers' high-availability needs. Learn about using failover clustering, database mirroring, log shipping and replication to keep a database accessible to users. 

  • Three low-cost approaches to high-availability databases

    High-availability databases can be an expensive proposition. But if your customers don't have the budget for a high-end system, there are cheaper options. Here we examine the pros and cons of log shipping, replication and database mirroring. 

  • Providing database services: The initial client meeting

    Remote database services provider Hilary Cotter outlines his own best practices for establishing successful client relationships -- which he says begins with the first client meeting. 

  • Business intelligence as a managed service

    Business intelligence (BI) managed services providers must be prepared to scale services to meet end customer needs and make BI offerings portable. 

  • Plan your remote DBA services

    Start organizing a customer's sprawling database environment by providing remote DBA services. 

  • Becoming a remote DBA services provider

    Now is the time to take advantage of a growing trend: database administration outsourcing. Learn how you can begin offering remote DBA services to help customers with database monitoring, security and more. 

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Get expert tips and tutorials on database availably solutions for systems solutions providers and value-added resellers (VARs). The information in these resources can help solutions providers to manage database availability and scalability with advice on fault-tolerant and high-availabilty (HA) databases and service-level requirements.