If users want to use Raw Iron database servers in place of SQL Server on NT, it isn't much different than using Unix or Linux underneath, he said.
To do this, the group maintains a number of blocklists, a database of servers known to be being used for malicious purposes.
For them a simple to deploy and manage DoS Defense system that they can put in front of their web, database, and DNS servers is ideal.
Big Blue is hooking up with DeCode (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people ) in a pioneering three-year deal to jointly sell an integrated computer system that combines DeCode's unique gene-mining software, which sleuths out genetic risk factors for diseases, with IBM's (nyse: IBM - news - people ) servers and database software.
Amazon appears serious about selling music and video content, as well as leveraging their vast could servers and credit card database.
Mr Black said many domain registries like Nominet felt frustrated by Icann's stance, given that the root servers only held a database of the 300 or so computers with detailed lists of which domain was where.
Hadoop ushered in the era of the big data database, architected to distribute processing across servers instead of within storage.
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And, more often than not, these problems are caused by faulty wiring, old, overloaded servers and from ignoring essential database maintenance.
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In short, Oracle becomes the indirect beneficiary of SaaS applications market growth since these applications require database and middleware software to be deployed on servers.
Both OLTP and DW segments of database software serve different purpose and benefit from faster servers.
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Even though Forbes magazine has been around for 85 years, and Forbes.com for a decade, we can't just assume that the company will be around in another 20 years--or that a database and application will be safe sitting on our servers for that long.
Setting up redundant servers for static HTML files is easy, but a database replication in a complex database-backed application is another.
You can buy your applications as a service, buy your database and middleware as a service, and buy your storage and servers also as a service.
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Suffice it to say that along with Oracle database software, we'll need cheap, massively parallel machines as servers for these huge online databases.
In this case, the hundreds of thousands of attacked sites have something in common: They're all hosted on servers running either Microsoft 's Internet Information Services software or its SQL database software.
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