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 ...

There are few mid-to-large enterprises at this point that haven’t migrated at least some of their IT operations to the cloud. The cost-savings at scale are real, but shifting infrastructure outside of ...

IT is moving toward the cloud and virtualization, but don't write off hardware -- especially for highly critical systems. Here's a look at the newest generation of database hardware and how it impacts ...

One of the oddities of working in technology is the obsolescence factor and how systems that were once top of the line and prohibitively expensive can devalue to the point you can’t give them away.

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.

Typically, I discourage buying used drives. In fact, I normally extend that advice to "don't buy anything that's not a ...

Microsoft Tuesday joined the Open Compute Project, a Facebook-led industry consortium that's applying open-source principles to make data center hardware design as efficient as possible. Until a few ...

Unplanned server outages cost businesses productivity. As a result, keeping a server functioning is high on the priority list of most companies. Servers have several critical moving parts, including ...