The concept of database sharding has gained popularity over the past several years due to the enormous growth in transaction volume and size of business-application databases. This is particularly ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

If you have ever been involved in configuring, installing and maintaining enterprise software, I don't have to tell you that it's time-consuming and complex. The cumbersome process of installing and ...

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alpha Software Corporation, accelerating how developers build and deploy mobile and web business apps, today announced that the Alpha Anywhere development and ...

After doing some consulting for Microsoft to develop protections against zero-day exploits, software engineer Joran Dirk Greef worked with Coil, a web monetization startup in San Francisco, to help ...

IBM will soon offer new database software with improved analysis tools that allow companies to examine business information and seek out patterns and trends. IBM in early December will ship new DB2 ...

The development team throws a party when it delivers a new database-oriented application to the business community. But the network exec, like Cinderella, can’t go to the party. All too often, the ...

Most of today’s mid-career engineers remember when the idea of including a database management system (DBMS) within electronics’ embedded software was considered laughable. DBMSs’ hardware demands ...

Updates and deletes remove history that is often desirable to keep. It is not only possible but practical to write a database application that preserves that history. Software is a funny business. For ...

Dec 16 (Reuters) - Cockroach Labs said on Thursday it had raised $278 million in a late-stage funding round led by Greenoaks, lifting the cloud database management software startup's valuation to $5 ...