May 6, 2012
According to Oracle, the global CRM market will surpass 18.2 billion in 2012. It was anticipated that the acquisition of Rightnow enables Oracle to expand its use of Cloud Computing but Oracle has recently unveiled a new product roadmap for end-to-end customer experience. Rightnow has spent fourteen years on building customer experience products and brings [...]
Apr 26, 2012
Jim Keeting writes about Javascript Object Notation, JSON, and about how modern web applications are geared torwards efficiency. At first there was Asynchronous Javascript and XML or AJAX for short but there is always a demand for more efficiency. Since then web developers have been trying to get the maximum amount of performance for the code they write. JSON [...]
Apr 23, 2012
According to a recent forecast, Cisco’s visual networking index has listed global mobile data traffic to increase by 18 fold within the next five years. The VNI forecast is an ongoing initiative to track the impact of visual networking applications on a global scale. By examining the trends of the last four years, the article [...]
Apr 16, 2012
“Designing For The Future Web” talks about some of the most significant changes in web development and encompasses not just the artistic design but also the skills built around developing websites for mobile phone applications and how to integrate them from a modular sense. The article offers insight, tools, and other resources for developing a [...]
Apr 8, 2012
Onsite resources are not the only ones in need of protection anymore. Every day new methods of cloud computing are being introduced and adopted by companies of all sizes, all over the world. That’s the beauty of the cloud. You can access it from just about anywhere but so can the bad guys. The article [...]
Apr 1, 2012
The article I found was a survey conducted by techaisle regarding the trends of cloud applications in small and medium businesses (SMB). The survey was sponsored by Dell and discusses how to successfully select, deploy, and integrate cloud services. The survey showed that almost 70% of current cloud adopters, if given the option to start [...]
Mar 11, 2012
This article talks about how the era of utility supercomputing will be an on demand type of service, for example, like electricity and gas. In November of 2011, Amazon launched CC2 beta which is its most powerful cloud service to date. Cloud computing allows consumers and businesses to pay a fee for consumption of this [...]
Mar 3, 2012
This article was release just two weeks ago as the competition for cloud applications market share started heating up. The Wall Street Journal reports that Taleo has agreed to merge with Oracle for a whopping $1.9 billion. According the the article, Oracle’s Fusion Middleware which has been in the market for years will now be [...]
Feb 27, 2012
Being able to use available knowledge to help build an effective and efficient product for your customer is crucial in the business world. Coming up with the right solution the first time can make the difference in money and time. That is why this article stresses the importance of forward engineering. Although the article itself [...]
Feb 20, 2012
With cyber crime on the rise, database administrators must do everything they can to prevent data from being compromised. This article introduces a new product called ActiveCrypt DBDefence which is designed to lock down database log files inside 32 and 64 bit systems on SQL Server 2000, 2005, and 2008. The enterprise eidition of DBDefence [...]
Feb 13, 2012
No, I’m not talking about hypodermic needles. This article explains the mystery behind SQL injections and offers a few suggestions on how you can protect yourself from an injection attack. SQL injections are extremely common and very easy to exploit. Yes, I know. Your job as a database administrator just became that much sweeter, right? [...]
Feb 6, 2012
This article was written by Robert Sheldon about the basics of SQL Server Index, an important component for server performance. According to Sheldon, Indexes can speed up queries by providing easier access to rows in data tables. He explains for example, “If you create an index on the primary key and then search for a [...]
Jan 30, 2012
This article talks about data anomalies, which are basically flaws within a database. They can occur at different times during use. Though it may be difficult to avoid these kinds of mistakes, by gaining a better understanding of the types of anomalies, we may be able to limit its consistency. There are three types of [...]
Jan 23, 2012
The article compares the performance of queries done through different data models. It also talks about how SQL, a system developed back in the 70′s, is still a dominant interface language even twenty years later. I found it interesting because it explains the need for transitioning from traditional data models towards semantic models. Entity-relationship model [...]
Jan 15, 2012
I found this article while searching for E-R diagrams for common business situations. This article discusses the transition away from a silo application approach to a more flexible process focused information system. This article makes emphasis towards carefully analyzing business processes. Prior to reading this article, I had never heard of a silo system before. [...]
Jan 8, 2012
This article talks about how database systems can be used in the healthcare industry. It describes the uses of database along with the use of smart cards to manage and share information pertaining to patients, doctors, hospitals, and laboratory tests. The article makes topological suggestions on how hospitals can have a shared database even while [...]
