This data sheet highlights the features and facts for the Sun Oracle Database Machine, the world's fastest for any type of database workload, and the only database machine that runs transaction processing applications.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Microsoft turns 35: Best, worst, most notable moments
The year is 1975. Gerald Ford is in the White House, South Vietnam falls, Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in the "Thrilla in Manila" world championship boxing match, the late-night comedy show NBC's Saturday Night (later called Saturday Night Live) debuts, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest sweeps the Oscars, and Captain & Tennille's "Love Will Keep Us Together" and Glenn Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" top the music charts.
And in Albuquerque, N.M., Harvard dropout Bill Gates and his high school friend Paul Allen set up a tiny business to write software for a new microcomputer called the Altair 8800. Their first product is the Altair BASIC language. At some point during that year, the company is called Micro-soft, and then MicroSoft, before it is ultimately named Microsoft.
http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=57002
Clearing the Fog Around Microsoft's Cloud Computing Offerings
Cloud computing. Everyone is talking about it. But cloud computing takes many forms. You may wonder what each cloud option is for and how cloud offerings differ from each other. Even if you limit the discussion of cloud computing and consider just two of Microsoft's cloud offerings, the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) and the Windows Azure Platform, there's room for lots of confusion. You're not alone if you could use some clarification about how BPOS and Windows Azure fit together and how each offering relates to IT and business needs right now. Let's talk.
http://redmondmag.com/articles/2010/04/01/clearing-the-fog-around-cloud-computing.aspx
Microsoft Kicking Off SQL Server 2008 R2 Launch Tour at PASS European Conference 2010
Microsoft Business Intelligence luminary Donald Farmer will head up the launch of the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Community Tour and dive into the new release at a special full-day Microsoft R2 Launch Event at PASS European Conference 2010 in Neuss, Germany, April 21-23.
R2, DBA, development, and BI sessions by top Microsoft and community experts will follow during two content-packed days of Europe's premier SQL Server
more at http://newsblaze.com/story/2010033102004900001.bw/topstory.html
Oracle(R) Database 11g Delivers World Record Result for a Two-Tier Configuration on SAP(R) Business Intelligence-Data Mart Standard Application Benchmark
Oracle Database 11g Running on New Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX600 S5 Server Raises the Performance Bar for Business Intelligence Application Workloads
more at http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0602401.htm
Database Security, Virtualization and Cloud Computing: The Three Key Technology Challenges in Protecting Sensitive Data in Modern IT Architectures
There have been many changes recently in computing architecture, from dedicated servers in the data center to virtualization and cloud computing, and this has new implications for data protection. Read this paper to find out how to address these security challenges.
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