02 May 2008
By Paul Krill, InfoWorld (US)
BEA Systems employees gathered at a Silicon Valley restaurant earlier this week for what was loosely termed a "wake" to recognise that the company no longer exists as an independent, publicly owned company but has become part of Oracle. Read more...
19 September 2006
By Chris Mellor
I keep re-visiting Thumper aka Sun Fire X4500. ZFS sounds so very, very good. A grand total of 24TB of direct-attached storage sounds great - for a server and Thumper is properly chracterised in my mind as a server with a super-charged helping of direct-attached storage - DAS. A sustained I/O rate of 2GB/sec is pretty compelling too. It's obvious, it seems, to me, that Thumper is a brilliant machine on which to run applications needing access to TBs of information. Read more...
03 December 2007
By Brad Reed and Jon Brodkin, Network World
The first developers onto the development kit for Google's Android are upbeat, but several questions still remain. Read more...
14 August 2007
By China Martens, IDG News Service
Oracle has brought out the first version of the Coherence in-memory data grid software since acquiring Tangosol earlier this year and over time hopes to dramatically widen the appeal of the product. Read more...
26 October 2007
By By Dahna Mcconnachie, Computerworld
Open source is disruptive, it develops rapidly, is adopted quickly, and it efficiently meets market needs while enabling new market capabilities. Read more...
23 November 2007
By Zimbra
Most IT organisations prefer to provide web-based applications to users, because such applications are easier to deploy and manage than traditional desktop applications - as anyone who has had to update tens of thousands of desktops with the latest security patch can attest. Paradoxically, many users are reluctant to use web-based applications, as they tend to be more cumbersome and much less feature-rich than their desktop counterparts. Read more...
18 September 2007
By Mario Apicella, Infoworld
23 May 2007
By Andrew Hillier, CiRBA
CIOs and data centre managers use server consolidation to help save costs. But that doesn't mean that it's easy to execute. Here are some of the most common mistakes -- and how to avoid them. Read more...
08 February 2008
By Matt Prigge, Infoworld
Whether you're big or small, this in-depth six-stage virtual case study explores the key considerations and deployment approaches you should examine when virtualising your servers. Read more...