Virtually Speaking: In the next battleground for the cloud, IBM's choice of Red Hat's virtualization technology may be changing the landscape, but don't count VMware out just yet.
Many database shops have no idea of the security breaches that occur across user granted privilege and floating unused synonyms. James Koopmann offers tips for granting privileges explicitly to a user or group of users, and assigning privileges to a role and then granting that role to users.
<b>Tech Source:</b> "Already, various thinkers about the future have proposed a number of candidates for the designation "twenty-first-century literacy." That is, what are the key skills humans must possess in order to be considered literate?"
<b>Howtoforge:</b> "Speed Dreams is is a free, 3d cross-platform, open source motorsport simulation and racing game, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). This guide shows how to install it on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop."
<b>Tech Source:</b> "Our next entry for the "The $100.00 (USD) Coolest Linux Workspace Contest" was sent all the way from the Netherlands by a digital forensics student named Huseyin. He is also working as an intern at an IT-audit company and described Linux as the best OS to do research on."
Server Snapshot: Stratus' fault-tolerant servers are designed to fill a clearly defined niche. Its positioning as the "availability company" has set it apart from the OEM Rat Pack and resulted in steady growth.
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server earlier this week became the first distribution to be validated on all hardware platforms supported by DB2 for Linux and validated to run DB2 Enterprise Server Edition.
Server Snapshot: Stratus' fault-tolerant servers are designed to fill a clearly defined niche. Its positioning as the "availability company" has set it apart from the OEM Rat Pack and resulted in steady growth.
<b>Really Linux:</b> "In this article Mark Rais offers beginning Linux web administrators some guidance with regard to proper back up and restore of a dynamic website to help prevent a catastrophic moment."
<b>The H Open:</b> "The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has elected Simon Phipps to the board of directors; Phipps recently left Oracle after serving as Sun's Chief Open Source Officer."
<b>Tech Republic:</b> "What he has proposed really struck me as something Linux CAN do and SHOULD do. It will be another revolution in the desktop thanks to the Linux community."
Join BI Architect Bill Pearson in this introduction to Security in Analysis Services 2008. Here we explore security concepts and implementation, and look forward to hands-on practice with security in other articles of this subseries.
<b>Brendan Scott’s Weblog:</b> "Glyn notes that the software is being licensed under a BSD licence and notes that is a good thing, but then observes that there is a patent encumbrance on the code, and indicates this is a bad thing."
<b>ServerWatch:</b> "Sitting at the heart of every Linux OS distribution is a Linux kernel. When it comes to the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 release, the issue of which kernel is being used is not a cut and dried answer, however."
Indexes help your application find your data quickly and provide users with a well performing application, while minimizing server resources. This article discusses indexing guidelines related to join tables and covering indexes.
With the Obama Administration and the economy likely to keep Green IT issues in focus, data storage vendors say they're working on both their products and their own practices.
Clip this Wi-Fi adapter onto your laptop and extend the range and strength of your wireless network, and even discover others you couldn’t reach before.