Recent Articles
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‘We Did Nothing Wrong’: Why Software Quality Matters
Victor Garcia considers himself lucky to be alive. Three years ago, a combination of cancer and miscalculation almost killed him. In November of 2000, Garcia and 27 other patients at the National Cancer Institute in Panama were jolted with massive overdoses of gamma rays partly due to limitations of the computer program that guided use…
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Cramming on Oracle 10g
Got two days and $1,000? If so, Oracle University promises to get you up and running on Oracle 10g without a hitch. Read the full story at SearchOracle.com. Check out eWEEK.com’s Database Center at http://database.eweek.com for the latest database news, views and analysis.
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SQL Server vs. Oracle Face-Off
Whether the argument is price, scalability, reliability or security, both Oracle and SQL Server databases have strong proponents and skeptics. In this article you can check out what two Database.com editors have to say in favor of their favorite database. Read the full story at SearchDatabase.com. Check out eWEEK.com’s Database Center at http://database.eweek.com for the…
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Visually Track Your Net Traffic
Visualware’s VisualRoute 8 lets network administrators keep tabs on Internet performance and usage by visually mapping where and how traffic is flowing on an Internet connection. The software displays a geographical map of IP addresses, as well as the performance of each segment along the route. The software’s intelligent tracing capabilities use multiple protocols (including…
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Primer: Storage Partitioning
What is it? A set of digital instructions that makes it easier to manage the increasingly large amounts of data found on farms of inexpensive disk drives. At its simplest, it’s an administrative technique for dividing a disk or an array of disks into clearly defined chunks of storage space that can be assigned to…
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Defending the Core
After a decade of focusing nearly exclusively on defending the perimeter, security vendors have begun to divert more of their attention to the last frontier of digital security: the soft, chewy center of corporate networks. The problem for these vendors isn’t so much about keeping attackers out; they leave that to the firewall and IDS…
