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SQL Chip Gives MySQL Data Warehouse Boost

A SQL chip for every MySQL database server-that's the vision of Kickfire, a startup with its eyes on the data warehousing market.The company contends...

Midmarket CIOs Face Big Jobs

Just because a CIO works at a midmarket company doesn't mean he or she is less qualified or experienced than a CIO at a...

Tight Budgets Won’t Slow State CIOs or Government IT

In this time of economic uncertainty and tight budgets, governors nationwide aren't trimming IT budgets; they're spending as usual in the hope that IT...

R U Blocking Txt Msgs?

Public advocacy groups renewed their call April 14 for Federal Communications Commission action to prohibit wireless carriers from exerting undue influence on the provisioning...

MS08-021: A Must-Patch Vulnerability

Less than a week after the release of patches for a pair of code execution flaws in Microsoft's Windows graphics device interface, malicious hackers...

DoubleClick Employees Feel DoubleCrossed by Noncompete

Did Google--famed for its corporate mantra, "Don't Be Evil"--handle its DoubleClick layoffs in a particularly shady way? According to at least one former employee,...

Salesforce.com Tried to Buy Zoho Before Google Deal

Would today's enhanced integration between Salesforce.com and Google have happened if Salesforce.com had bought Zoho?That's the multimillion-dollar question raised in my mind by AdventNet...

IBM, Partners Preparing 32-nm Chips

IBM and a group of six other technology companies are inching closer to developing 32-nanometer microprocessors for the commercial market that will use a...

How to Understand and Use Benchmarking

By Jennifer Sutherland and James YapleIt's 3 a.m. and you just can't go to sleep. Your recommended server configuration is not providing the service...

Google’s Datacenters Come to Light

A couple of sites have put together some interesting information on Google's clandestine data centers.Data Center Knowledge has logged an incredible amount of data...