Whatever form, shape and type of database we chose to use, the software that drives it fundamentally depends upon a chunk of hardware to exist, wherever that may be. So being effecient with ...

I am building web/database app for a project at school. Its going to run a Course Evaluations system which lets students evaluate classes on a number of criteria. There are 5500 students here, so ...

CEO Larry Ellison Wednesday unveiled two hardware systems, an advanced database server and a programmable storage server, co-developed with Hewlett-Packard, that will make Oracle a player in the ...

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product--a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid. The ...

Joey on SQL Server What's the Future of Database Hardware Post-Cloud? IT is moving toward the cloud and virtualization, but don't write off hardware -- especially for highly critical systems.

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Oracle adds server virtualization in the first update to the Database Appliance it unveiled in September 2011, a move it hopes will attract more ISVs.

You can monitor a Web server, a MySQL database, server hardware and operating system, an email server or a user experience (I’ll explain that one shortly), or you can set up a custom component ...

Sun and Oracle launched a high-end OLTP server that combines Sun hardware with Oracle's database software.

IBM announced a $125,000 specialized processor Thursday that boosts the ability of its top-end mainframe server line to run the company's DB2 database software. The module, called the System z9 ...

Hardware Prerequisites When it comes to deploying a database server, hardware configuration is extremely important.

The system is also offered in half-rack, quarter-rack and single-server configurations, however. The entry product starts at $115,000 for the database server hardware.