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 ...

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.

The hardware rollout, which was cooked up in a partnership with HP, is aimed the emerging problem of moving data from hard drives to database servers. The storage server took three years of ...

Oracle Tuesday rolled out an updated Oracle Database Appliance, called the X3-2, which adds virtualization to a product that combines database software with server, storage and networking, all in ...

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 ...

Sun and Oracle launched a high-end OLTP server that combines Sun hardware with Oracle's database software. News. Accessories; ... The entry product starts at $115,000 for the database server hardware.

Laying the Groundwork for Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Redmond's new database server is a complex product often running mission-critical apps. You can't afford to not get it right.

Still waiting approval from the European Commission for Oracle's acquisition of Sun, the companies unveiled their first joint product since announcing their merger Oracle has launched a high-end ...

Addition of specialized processor is latest move by company to ensure the relevance of its expensive but powerful mainframe line. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...