I am building web/database app for a project at school. Its going to run a Course Evaluations system which lets students evaluate classes on a number of criteria. There are 5500 students here, so ...

There are few mid-to-large enterprises at this point that haven’t migrated at least some of their IT operations to the cloud. The cost-savings at scale are real, but shifting infrastructure outside of ...

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One of the oddities of working in technology is the obsolescence factor and how systems that were once top of the line and prohibitively expensive can devalue to the point you can’t give them away.

Microsoft Tuesday joined the Open Compute Project, a Facebook-led industry consortium that's applying open-source principles to make data center hardware design as efficient as possible. Until a few ...

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product--a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid. The Exadata ...

Unplanned server outages cost businesses productivity. As a result, keeping a server functioning is high on the priority list of most companies. Servers have several critical moving parts, including ...