Nov 14, 2011
Summary: Israeli government websites went down two days after receiving numerous threats from Anonymous, a hacker group. The hacker group criticized the Israeli Navy for intercepting and boarding two vessels that were in international waters headed to the Gaza Strip. These vessels were Irish and Canadian and were not carrying any weapons. Anonymous threatened to [...]
Nov 6, 2011
SUMMARY: This week’s article was regarding the consolidation of SQL servers. Many companies, especially non-IT departments find themselves installing their own SQL servers and ultimately end up over-consuming financial, hardware, and administrative resources. Their solution to this becomes the consolidation of their servers. There are many pros and cons when considering any type of consolidation. [...]
Oct 23, 2011
Summary: The article spoke about high profile companies which were recently scrutinized when they didn’t respond fast enough to data breaches earlier this year. However, what the public doesn’t realize is that if they had actually been storing their data with public cloud providers, it would have taken days just to establish where the data [...]
Oct 16, 2011
Summary: The article that I read appears to be a summary of a book “The Data Model Resource Book, Volume 3: Universal Patterns for Data Modeling.” The article helps define the differences between reusable data models and patterns. Patterns are described to be the core templates that are independent to any particular application. They mainly [...]
Oct 2, 2011
Summary: Databases used to be stored on mainframes; which, by today’s standards is extremely unacceptable. Mainly due to the slow and difficult processes of editing a flat file. According to Arthur Hughes, it is extremely important that not only the IT department understand the structure of a relational database, but that Marketing departments should as [...]
Oct 2, 2011
Summary: Shazam is a mobile application that can identify songs. It does this by recording up to 15 seconds of the song you are listening to and then sends it to their database to find the match. They do this by storing “fingerprints” of over 8 million songs on their database. When the application records [...]
