Benchmarks are a critical part of the IT industry. They allow us to measure technological progress, enable buyers to compare offerings from multiple vendors and help vendors improve their products. In ...

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 ...

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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 a ...

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 ...

Today, DBAs who have traditionally managed relational database systems such as Oracle and SQL Server are also managing companies’ "non-relational" databases. As platforms such as MongoDB and Cassandra ...

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 ...

Oracle has launched a high-end database and storage system that it co-developed with Sun Microsystems, the companies’ first joint product since announcing their plans to merge almost five months ago.

Software giant Oracle is now a fully fledged hardware giant, too, and is now going to muscle against established storage vendors such as IBM and EMC. It emerged today at the Oracle OpenWorld ...

AMD appeared on stage at the Open Computing Summit earlier this week to show off an upcoming open hardware platform called Open 3.0. The new platform is intended to reduce costs and rack space in data ...