After 14 years measuring the world's most powerful servers, the TPC-C speed test is being supplanted by a new benchmark. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

New workload specific x86 servers have been introduced by Oracle. The Sun Server X4-4 and Sun Server X4-8 offer features in the hardware to dynamically adapt to workload specific requirements and ...

It is essential to have access to detailed, real-time information on the performance of database servers and databases. Database performance problems affect the business-critical applications that ...

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Responding to a soon-to-be released study revealing that as many as a half a million database servers aren't protected by firewalls, security experts contend the findings constitute a call to action ...

Good hackers today are businesspeople, assessing each target for the simplest and most profitable attack scenarios. These days, there are probably no plumper targets than enterprise databases.