One of the great things about the IT industry is that there’s no shortage of innovative companies coming up with a wide range of products to address niche problems. Today’s article covers a compendium ...

One of the interesting design challenges facing the people supporting the IEED research effort discussed yesterday involves how much of the key applications to embed in the database design. In that ...

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The days of one-size-fits-all, monolithic databases are behind us. As Werner Vogels, CTO and vice president of Amazon.com, said, “Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.” ...

The concept of database sharding has gained popularity over the past several years due to the enormous growth in transaction volume and size of business-application databases. This is particularly ...

Database sizes have grown exponentially, with more than half of all databases in use globally projected to exceed 10TB by 2010, according to The Data Warehouse Institute. But as the size of data ...

As enterprises continue to embark on their digital transformation journeys part of this change may involve migrating in-house applications, databases and data to the cloud. But while all the benefits ...

Cloud Migration consists of moving organizational assets such as applications, databases, IT resources and services. This could be either lift and shift or Re Platform or RE Factor or Rewrite. Clear ...

That society's membership is managed in one (was two) Access database after a herculean effort by her to normalize all the data. 3 or 4 geographically seperate people need access to that database.