Companies that improve database infrastructures by moving from a row-based to a column-based architecture can expect immediate improvements in query responses and report generation speed.
As managing storage is ever more critical, single-instance storage can reduce your storage footprint and save you money.
Logs must do more than just record the facts
These five best practices will help you reduce the risk of internal data misuse and accidental data leakage.
In this second part of our three-part excerpt adapted from The Data Access Handbook, authors John Goodson and Rob Steward begin their discussion of nine guidelines that will help you create meaningful, useful benchmarks in your own organization.
Designed for speedier data warehouses, online transaction processing
Message queuing stalwarts such as IBM and TIBCO bring decades of messaging processing expertise to the table, but some would-be players, including Informatica, come to CEP from what seems like a tangential trajectory.
Finds growing adoption of blended/hybrid approach to computing
IT still prioritizes short-term cost savings over long-term energy reduction
Oracle has not yet revealed its plans for the open source database
Kalido's new KONA appliance could well be the first of its kind
Even the fastest bandwidth may not be able to keep up with data intensity of BI applications, so what must change?
Vendors issue public challenges to Redmond about security in Windows, other Microsoft products
Companies contest how patent applies
Possible vulnerability in SMB implementation affects Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 release candidate
How data visualization techniques can encapsulate vast amounts of data into intensely visual and data-rich displays.
In the online banking segment, some industry watchers warn, the bad guys are winning the war against unsuspecting account holders.
Management shuffling is not what this company needs.
IDC says worldwide server revenues decreased over 30 percent
Big Iron shops have two options to run their Windows applications on System z: emulation via z/Vos or full-blown porting via Mono.