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In this sample chapter, Aleksandar Seovic, founder and managing director at S4HC, Inc., takes a look at the building a highly available and scalable system; explaining how Coherence impacts the elimination and reduction of availability and scalability and why it is a foundation for scalable applications. Improving performance equates to reducing latency and the amount […]

With this, new and certified with CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2, release by Attunity, user can now capture and replicate changes that have been made to the new versions of SQL Server. Attunity’s SQL Server-CDC Suite for SSIS includes features such as: Support for log-based CDC for SQL Server 2008/2005/2000, with no installation on […]

A new release of LogicMonitor’s Hosted Monitoring offers comprehensive, fully automated virtualization monitoring while building on existing support for the MySQL database. Now offering comprehensive and fully automated virtualization monitoring for Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere 4/ESX Server, and Amazon’s EC2. LogicMonitor’s hosted monitoring provides users with unmatched visibility into the health and performance of their […]

Terracotta and EnterpriseDB have joined together in order to address the complex technical challenge of scaling the data layer in private clouds and provide a high performance, cost-effective solution. To meet the elastic needs of cloud-based applications, they’ve combined Terracotta’s Ehcache, an industry standard interface which scales data tiers from a single server to multiple […]

From a group of IT and IS experts, having core competencies in database administration and management, comes a free tool (CerbIT) that will perform a database checkup and monitor databases. Currently the CerbIT is available on Windows and will check sessions, loads, and virtual performance parameters for SQL Server. Additional ports to Oracle and MySQL […]

Two start-ups, FathomDB and Cloudscale are providing alternatives to traditional database management systems—making claim that traditional databases such as Oracle and SQL Server are just too expensive for today and too difficult to use for the average business user. Their approach to satisfy current “big data” needs steam from the following: For CloudScale, as noted […]

Well it didn’t take long for Monty Widenius, MySQL founder, to branch bring one of his personal projects to fruition and develop his own version of MySQL. With help from other Sun employees, as well as community members, Monty has built upon the Maria storage engine and release MariaDB (now release 5.1.42). The MariaDB release […]

HiT Software’s DBMoto 7 offers advances in data integration for companies that need data synchronization across multiple databases, remote administration, advanced security options, and easy monitoring. Synchronization and replication support is provided for database clusters such as Oracle RAC and Microsoft Windows clusters and provides remote administrative control from any location. New to this version […]

New with this release of the open source embedded database engine, Oracle Berkeley DB, a new SQL API that is based on SQLite can greatly simplify application development. This integration with SQLite means that development tools that would work with SQLite will now also work with Oracle Berkeley DB—enabling easier development, deployment, and management of […]

Every organization collects and stores data.  The quality of that data is only as good as the edits in the applications that collect the data.  Poor quality data leads to many things including additional cost to your corporation.   In order to ensure data quality you need to understand why your applications create bad data, and […]

There are various technical criteria and requirements that must be taken into account during an organization’s evaluation and selection process of a data modeling tool, but keeping certain things in mind can help move the process along to a successful end. These include knowing the requirements for data model support and any constraints posed by […]

Today’s storage space is growing at astronomical rates.   We know that not all the data is actively used.  Some of the data is only looked at periodically.  To handle peoples storage needs organization need to consider multiple tiers of data storage.  One tier supports real-time access for those frequently accessed files, whereas other tiers can […]