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Oracle Real Application Testing 11g Release 2

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:30:12 +0000

Real Application Clusters with Oracle Database 11g, enables a single database to run across a cluster of servers, providing unbeatable fault tolerance, performance, and scalability with no application changes necessary. This white paper provides a technical overview of Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 2 with an emphasis on the features and functionality that can be implemented to provide the highest availability and scalability for your enterprise applications.

Five Ways IT Can Ride the Coming Growth Wave

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:10:44 +0000

CIOs and the IT organizations have an opportunity to help position the enterprise to ride the wave of a growth curve. This white paper from Oracle discusses five ways IT can support the enterprise's transition from a contraction to growth mode.

Simple, cheap apps keep your secrets online

KevinFogarty — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:58:09 +0000

There are too many hacks and too many nuclear cookies to risk wireless browsing unprotected; easy, cheap VPNs are one good answer.

Forrester: Web 2.0 means paying more attention to security, not less

KevinFogarty — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:42:32 +0000

Holes are opening all over enterprise IT infrastructures, which rely on end-users' memories, not good systems, for good authentication plans.

Iran responds to Stuxnet by expanding cyberwar militia

KevinFogarty — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:56:13 +0000

Iran is expanding its huge youth militia by recruiting geeks for a renewed cyberwar effort aimed at the West.

Child porn blocking won't work, says Euro ISPs

ITworld staff — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:54:26 +0000

The EU’s attempts to get all member states to block porn at ISP level would do little to stop the problem, the European Internet Services Providers Association (EuroISPA) has said.

Inside your walls, a fight for the right to link up your HDTV

KevinFogarty — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:01:19 +0000

Powerline is the simplest network option for situations WiFi can't cover; arguments over next-gen high-bandwidth spec might short its potential.

Can the iPhone bring down Verizon the way it did AT&T?

KevinFogarty — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:39:50 +0000

Verizon got a lot of good press by adding the iPhone to its menu at CES. It gets lots for LTE, too. Can it afford to do both at the same time?

Cloud cracks home wireless router; giant hammer squishes ant

KevinFogarty — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:19:12 +0000

Hackers using Amazon's EC2 to crack WLANs is no threat to corporate IT, but does highlight new options for ambitious, cash-strapped crackers.

Time to kill Bluetooth

KevinFogarty — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:33:21 +0000

New WLAN protocol Wi-Fi Direct can link your phone to a headset, keyboard, disk drive or network, simpler, more securely and more easily than Bluetooth.

What really mattered at CES: An OS, a tablet a network, a surrender

KevinFogarty — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:07:19 +0000

Microsoft and Intel surrender to the new generation; RIM and Sprint squeeze in behind the market leaders; no one cares much about 3D TV.

CES mini-exhibit forgets to use technology to demonstrate technology

KevinFogarty — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:46:50 +0000

In the giant, crowded, geek-infested center of the technology universe, the air is just not thick enough to support everyone.

'Anonymous' hactivists attack Zimbabwe

KevinFogarty — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:28:14 +0000

Anonymous has shown the far-reaching power of non-violent protest online; are censorship and secrecy the only injustices on which it can work?

Holiday Party: Ogling the Oligarchs

KevinFogarty — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 21:51:50 +0000

I can always tell what politicians are going to fight over next year by who people pay me to watch, and who their special friends appear to be.

FBI raids Texas hosting company for WikiLeaks DDOS attackers

KevinFogarty — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:51:00 +0000

FBI takes data from servers it says used IP addresses through which orders were relayed for DDOS attacks on PayPal, others in "Operation Payback."