Data Center | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Wednesday, September 7, 2011
There’s no doubt that Oracle faces a substantial challenge when it comes to competing against both VMware and Microsoft in the virtualization category. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Wednesday, August 3, 2011
One of the fundamental issues with distributed computing has been that in order to scale any application, it generally requires the addition of another server. But deploying that server obviously takes a fair amount of time to provision, which tends to make distributed computing a little cumbersome. Continue Reading »
Enterprise Applications | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Tuesday, July 26, 2011
One of the good things about difficult economic times is that IT organizations tend to get a lot more practical. In many instances, that practicality tends to reduce the temptation to reinvent the wheel. Continue Reading »
Enterprise Applications | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Tuesday, May 31, 2011
One question that keeps coming up as of late concerns the quality of open source software. While there’s no doubt that there is more dependency on open source than ever, a survey shows that with increased usage comes concerns over quality. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Feature | Mike Vizard Thursday, May 12, 2011
A survey of 450 IT decision-makers finds that Oracle customers don’t find the idea of replacing their Itanium systems especially appealing. Continue Reading »
Enterprise Applications | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Thursday, March 24, 2011
The conventional wisdom surrounding the open-source MySQL database is that it can't really be used in production environments that either require high speed or the ability to work with large amounts of data. Continue Reading »
