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  • Child porn blocked by new 'fingerprint' system

    Organisations are being offered an unusual new anti-child porn system that can identify and block real, individual images by comparing them to one of the world's largest databases of such pictures. Organisations are being offered an unusual new…
    16 March 2010
    Tags: Spot • Pictures • Images • Databases • Blocked • Block

  • AMD battles Intel with 12-core server chip

    For example, memory bandwidth matters for large databases as they try to get data to the RAM as quickly as possible.Poulin also said that Intel holds a manufacturing advantage that allows it to put more on-chip cache in its microprocessors than…
    08 March 2010
    Tags: Micro • Consumption • Channels • Cache • Boost • Battle

  • IBM boosts application server with OSGi

    JPA 2.0, meanwhile, provides persistence benefits, saving developers from having to write SQL to access databases, Kristiansen said.The feature pack can be downloaded at IBM's website.At Eclipse, the foundation's Project Gemini is an incubation…
    05 March 2010
    Tags: Pack • Framework • Foundation • Eclipse • Application Server • Api

  • SafeNet looks to secure data in the cloud

    SafeNet has a hardware appliance that can manage the keys used to encrypt databases, applications and other information, Schill said. SafeNet also sells hardware security modules.SafeNet has many competitors in the areas of authentication tokens or…
    03 March 2010
    Tags: Thirdparty • Encryption • Data Centers • Databases • Authentication • Appliance

  • NaturalOne welds Natural and Eclipse together

    They tend to think of them as what their grandfather used," Duggan said.Databases supported by NaturalOne include Adabas, IBM DB2, Oracle and others. Company offers NaturalOne IDE for the decades-old language Fourth-generation languages may appear…
    03 March 2010
    Tags: Platforms • Natural • Language • Java • Ide • Eclipse

  • IBM shows new server architecture at CeBIT

    IBM claimed that servers will have access to six times more memory than otherwise found in servers, which could help boost the performance of applications like databases.Traditionally, more servers are added to handle growing workloads, which lead…
    02 March 2010
    Tags: Reducing • Locked • Energy • Data Centres • Boost

Latest Features

  • Five doomsday scenarios for IT apocalypse

    And then they can turn out the lights, leave behind a logic bomb that corrupts Google's databases, or simply have their way.I'm not familiar with the structure of Google's network, but they must have a command and control app that lets them shut…
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Wall Street • Stopped • Scenarios • Scenario • Rogue • Disaster Recovery

  • SQL and relational databases: They're not right for the cloud

    The data processing requirements of cloud computing is causing many to leave SQL and relational databases behind. One of the larger topics that has come up thus far is not using relational databases for data persistence.
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Sql • Processing • Movement • Databases • Cloud Computing

  • Why Google Android beats the Apple iPhone

    Was this a demonstration of the power of Google's endless databases to link together everything? A few weeks ago, Google loaned me a Nexus One smartphone for experimentation, and I've spent the time since downloading applications and writing my own…
    04 March 2010
    Tags: Scripts • File System • Fear • Distribute • Deeper • Api

  • Google Go gets the thumbs up from developers

    It was conceived as a language for systems programming, such as Web servers, storage systems and databases. Less than four months after its unveiling at an early, experimental stage, Google Go looks promising to developers who say it offers…
    01 March 2010
    Tags: Stage • Solve • Programming • Languages • Language • Improving

  • The state of Internet security

    The explosion of Web 2.0 architectures has shattered the traditional network boundaries, making it even more challenging to secure web input and output.Underscoring these issues is the fact that many internal databases are now becoming webified…
    18 February 2010
    Tags: Priority • Login • Javascript • Input • Databases • Actions

  • Flash storage fixes data centre bottlenecks, for a price

    They can't sit around and wait for traditional storage [response times].Others simply need their databases to run faster, so they use SSDs rather than traditional storage arrays. For instance, Schooner Information Technology, has developed…
    15 February 2010
    Tags: Tier • Struggling • Storing • Hard Drives • Data Center • Accessed

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How-Tos

  • How to manage virtual machine performance

    If the applications are resource intensive databases or ERP apps, he only runs two.Bottom line: Less is more, Mann says. Virtualisation capacity planning tools are available all over, but sometimes the intangibles make a big impact on performance.
    01 February 2010
    Tags: Demands • Assessment • Vm • Virtual Machines • Workloads • Thumb

  • Top 5 barriers to fully virtualising your data centre

    But production or mission-critical applications that are typically heavy I/O applications such as databases and mail servers are something all together different. What hurdles are slowing down the virtualisation adoption rate and keeping…
    21 January 2010
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Addressed • Production • Strategies • Complexity • Missioncritical

  • Five ways to improve website uptime

    Separate your read/write databases so that you can have a master/slave database setup, allowing your database infrastructure to be scalable.If applicable, split your database vertically or horizontally (or potentially a hybrid of these if this…
    05 November 2009
    Tags: Downtime • San Francisco • Advance • Mechanisms • Programming • Viewed

  • How to buy UTM products

    Does the vendor do their own research or do they use databases from third parties? Our ready-made checklist gives plenty to consider when buying UTM Many organisations are deploying security in layers to help deal with the increasing complexity of…
    07 April 2009
    Tags: Implementing • Security Features • Centralised • Filter • Labs • Gateways

  • Case Study: UTM's weakness: a single point of failure

    But when Sarbanes Oxley mandated even tougher controls on databases containing key financial information, David Vordick, CIO of USEC, a $1.9 billion public company that operates a gaseous diffusion plant in Paducah, Kentucky, knew he was going to…
    25 March 2008
    Tags: Collect • Cio • South • Handles • Debate • Sounds

  • How to improve your datacentre operations

    Electrical reset could take up to 30 minutes - this in an environment where a fraction of a second can cause irreparable damage to hardware, databases and corporate profits.It is probable that this single point of failure is one of the leading…
    14 February 2008
    Tags: Density • Pushed • Datacentres • Fire • Raised • Pushing

Reviews

  • Databases for social networks

    Databases for social networks Peter Wayner A new breed of databases optimised for social workloads review,reviews Everyone loves social networks these days. Content mongers, meanwhile, believe that they can link together similar movie…
    18 February 2010
    Tags: Table • Questions • Queries • Nodes • Movie • Friends

  • Cassandra review

    But the lack of sophistication in adding information to the database means that it doesn't take long to add the tens of thousands of links.I've enjoyed working with Cassandra and the other new NoSQL databases for some time.
    18 February 2010
    Tags: Twitter • Nodes • Link • Joins • Databases • Attached

  • FluidDB review

    FluidDB review Peter Wayner Simple, open database review,reviews The interest in public/private databases such as FluidDB is just beginning, and the version I tested is merely an alpha. FluidDB is not a graph database, but it can still handle…
    18 February 2010
    Tags: Structure • Reader • Questions • Pointing • Peter • Elements

  • Neo4j review

    There are tools to suck in SQL databases and others to back up the database.Neo4j's documentation for the project is composed of excellent pages and thin sections. At first glance, there's not much to Neo4j, a graph database written in Java that…
    18 February 2010
    Tags: Relationships • Query • Object • Nodes • Friends • Bob

  • Cisco OTV review

    When databases fly In the demo I saw, Cisco used OTV to migrate a loaded SQL Server VM from one VMware ESX host to another over a simulated WAN, with the hosts residing at different data centers the equivalent of 400km apart (4ms latency).
    17 February 2010
    Tags: Table • Scenario • Extension • Ends • Data Center • Centers

  • Zend Studio review

    Actually, the number of accessible databases is limited only by the number of JDBC drivers you can lay your hands on. Produced in the heart of PHP country, from whence comes the core of the PHP runtime (the Zend engine), Zend Technologies' Zend…
    16 February 2010
    Tags: Studio • Session • Function • Eclipse • Country • Collection

White Papers

  • Oracle Data Guard with Oracle Database 11g release 2

    Data Guard is included with Oracle Database Enterprise Edition and provides the management, monitoring, and automation software to create and maintain one or more synchronized standby databases that protect data from failures, disasters, errors…
    03 December 2009
    Tags: Databases • Implement • Oracle Database • Standby • Guard

  • Advanced compressions with Oracle Database 11g release 2

    The introduction of these exciting new technologies comes at an opportune time as terabyte-sized databases, once considered a novelty, are becoming prevalent in enterprise data centres. Mass distribution of rich and multimedia content over the…
    03 December 2009
    Tags: Volumes • Volume • Scalability • Growth • Demands • Compression

  • Making the Case for Oracle Database on Windows

    Customers and industry trends driving Oracle/Microsoft interoperability One of the best-kept secrets in the IT industry is the depth of support Oracle offers to customers deploying its databases on Microsoft Windows platforms.
    05 November 2009
    Tags: Databases • Community • Robust • Microsoft Windows • Interoperability • Oracle

  • Lower Security Risks and Costs

    This paper outlines Trend Micro's Enterprise Security strategy using integrated web, email and file reputation databases. The white paper concludes with an explanation of how integrated reputation databases covering web, email and files forms a…
    07 October 2009
    Tags: Databases • Paper • Argues • Trend Micro • Reputation

  • Oracle Advanced Compression

    The introduction of these exciting new technologies come at an opportune time as terabyte-sized databases, once considered a novelty, are becoming prevalent in enterprise data centres.Discover new technologies that help companies minimise costs…
    19 March 2009
    Tags: Amounts • Volume • Levels • Achieve • Compression • Application Performance

  • Gap Analysis: The Case for Data Services

    Most corporate data is currently stored in departmental relational databases. On each project work must be done to bridge many different gaps: between relational or legacy application data sources and new XML-based data structures; between…
    25 November 2008
    Tags: Relational • Databases • Lines • Bridge • Structures • Gaps

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