http://www.drdobbs.com//author/6831 Dr. Dobb's Copyright 2012, United Business Media. en-us http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/measuring-performance-for-analytics-deci/240003170 The Transaction Processing Council (TPC) produces specifications for benchmarks to compare hardware and software configurations used for applications such as online transaction processing (OLTP) and decision support. Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:03:00 -0400 http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/100-gb-to-30000-gb-size-speed-and-benchm/240002505 Performance, data integrity, and ease of use are key characteristics to look for when comparing database systems. Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:43:00 -0400 http://www.drdobbs.com/mobile/information-storage-and-retrieval-from-m/232601905 Each decade, technology breakthroughs update our lexicon with new words and phrases. Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:00:00 -0500 http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/supercomputing-the-cloud-big-data-and-no/232400331 Sometimes technology that has become trendy is a branch on an evolutionary tree; other times it's a revolutionary departure from the long-established status quo. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:54:00 -0500 http://www.drdobbs.com/database/rules-active-databases-and-distributing/231900871 Discussions about system architecture often reveal a dichotomy of belief about the best use of a database. Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:21:00 -0400 http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/steve-jobs-35-years-of-vision-and-innova/231900196 Personal computers, operating systems, music, graphics, animated films, and phones: Steve Jobs had a tremendous influence on all manner of computing technologies Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:57:00 -0400 http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/sharding-replication-caches-and-in-memor/231000846 Caching, replication, and sharding have proven to be important tools in the modern database architect's toolbox. Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:24:00 -0400 http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/modern-engineering-availability-capacity/230800092 Whether the topic is Mississippi River flood control or cloud computing, there have been important engineering accomplishments and spectacular failures. Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:44:00 -0400 http://www.drdobbs.com/database/worlds-largest-database-the-web-of-data/229402861 While 'Big Data' has been a hot button for venture capitalists and the trade press, there have been several years of progress in the 'Biggest Data' arena. Thu, 05 May 2011 06:36:00 -0400 http://www.drdobbs.com/database/nosql-speed-bumps/229400759 With cloud computing gaining momentum, there is continued interest in suitable databases for the cloud. Initially, advocates of the NoSQL movement touted the ability to scale out for large websites, but not all of the recent press about NoSQL databases has been positive Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:14:00 -0400 http://www.drdobbs.com/web-development/growth-of-web-servers-in-ireland/229301119 Amazon is responsible for much growth in the number of web servers in Ireland Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:48:00 -0400 http://www.drdobbs.com/database/cloud-computing-races-on-but-nosql-finds/229300203 Highly publicized outages of sites using a NoSQL solution have raised the specter of stability problems. That's not atypical for new software and some big name NoSQL products are not an exception Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:47:16 -0500 http://www.drdobbs.com/database/a-tribute-to-innovation-ken-olsen/229300187 Ken Olsen was a force in the industry and he helped shape the history of computing for several decades. Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:47:17 -0500 http://www.drdobbs.com/database/cloud-computing-data-services-nosql-and/229300254 The recent news on the NoSQL database front is that hackers are now looking into security vulnerabilities due to the architecture of NoSQL solutions. The best approach to security relies on multi-laye... Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:17:55 -0500 http://www.drdobbs.com/database/legislation-tracking-applications-and-xm/229300185 After the W3C published XML 1.0, there was a surge of interest in a new class of data stores commonly referred to as 'XML servers' and 'native XML databases' that stored an XML document as a unit. Am... Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:30:46 -0500 http://www.drdobbs.com/database/peepers-terrorists-doctors-and-data-thre/229300190 Recently there's been more evidence of employees disregarding privacy rights because of curiosity, opportunities to sell information, and assisting criminals and even terrorists. Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:20:31 -0500 http://www.drdobbs.com/database/computer-price-comparisons-with-the-must/229300300 Over several decades, the price of computers has dropped dramatically - as the Mustang Index shows - and productivity of knowledge workers has risen. Of all of the things purchased or leased by organi... Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:59:30 -0500 http://www.drdobbs.com/database/government-seeking-comments-on-cloud-sec/229300207 The US government has established the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) to define the security environment in which those applications in the cloud must operate. Wed, 05 Jan 2011 07:28:00 -0500 http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/rush-to-the-cloud/229300215 The Kundra plan calls for each government agency to identify three services that must move to the cloud, enabling them to benefit from "commodity IT funding". There's an expectation that moving applic... Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:49:38 -0500 http://www.drdobbs.com/database/part-ii-specialty-hardware-databases-mai/229300205 Building new services and applications is one solution for surfacing information that currently resides in data silos, such as legacy data sources. So there's plenty of interest in tapping mainframe d... Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:52:42 -0500 http://www.drdobbs.com/database/specialty-hardware-databases-mainframes/229300248 With our long history of enthusiasm for turbo-charging systems, it's no surprise today's system architects look to hardware solutions to streamline query execution, analytics, web services performance... Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:01:00 -0500 http://www.drdobbs.com/database/sql-injection-attacks-and-data-theft/229300193 SQL databases are everywhere. Many are accessible from Internet connections, such as for use with web-facing applications. But even today not all database servers tied to the Internet are hardened and... Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:14:12 -0500 http://www.drdobbs.com/database/misuse-of-computers-and-databases-the-ba/228701313 The value of data is what makes cyber-crime via the Internet an attractive proposition. This type of crime has attracted a class of criminals who are more technically sophisticated than the carders with their encoding devices attached to PCs. Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:00:15 -0400 http://www.drdobbs.com/security/misuse-of-computers-shadowcrew-and-soupn/228700198 Shadowcrew members used a combination of instant messaging, encryption, and anonymizers (virtual private networks, proxy servers, and rotating IP addresses) to hide their activity and they succeeded in operating for more than two years. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:48:35 -0400 http://www.drdobbs.com/security/the-misuse-of-computers-a-rogues-gallery/228700383 Methods have changed over the decades but today's criminal is often seeking the same pot at the end of the rainbow as his counterpart 25 years - financial systems, often debit and credit card payment systems. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:25:21 -0400