Practical Oracle Database Appliance

Introduction

The world of information technology has changed rapidly since the inception of computers during the ’60s and ’70s. These changes have helped propel many different aspects of our economy to include what and how businesses conduct daily operations. With these changes to organizations, especially internally with information technology, faster and better ways of achieving business goals have been pushed and developed.

As businesses start to depend more on data stored within their systems, faster ways of processing and reporting data have developed. Over time, organizations have asked for ways to improve processing, achieve greater throughput, and report more quickly. This eventually led to the development of systems that could leverage ...