Was Governor's Web Site Hacked? Oct 6, 2009
But when many users tried to access the speech online, they got a message saying "unable to connect to database server," officials said. Within about an hour, the campaign said it had been the victim of a cyber attack. (Click2Houston, TX)
Perry's Internet Message Hacked Sep 30, 2009
But when many users tried to access the speech on Perry's campaign site, they got a message instead saying "unable to connect to database server.". The event was "deliberately interrupted by a denial-of-service attack, preventing countless users from logging in to view the governor's remarks," campaign spokesman Mark Miner said. (Click2Houston, TX)
Oracle, Sun Team Up on Exadata 2 Servers Sep 17, 2009
The Exadata systems come in four configurations in the cabinet: the single rack basic system is one database server and one storage server and starts at $110,000. It scales up to a full rack, eight compute servers and 14 storage servers, for $1. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
HP and Oracle Make Your Data Work Harder Aug 19, 2009
At the heart of this system is the HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server, which has smart storage software that offloads data-intensive query processing from database servers closer to the data ... It takes advantage of massively parallel architecture to increase data bandwidth between the database server and storage ... Its 20 Gb/s InfiniBand switches provide high-speed connectivity between the Exadata storage and Oracle database servers. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Getting started with OpenQRM Jul 31, 2009
To keep things simple, use a fresh install or virtual machine for OpenQRM. We also need to install some prerequisites: Apache 2, PHP 5, a database server (we're going to use MySQ To continue reading for free, register below or Requires Membership to View ... The default installation assumes your database server has no password defined. (Search Enterprise Linux)
Fujitsu and Sun Boost SPARC Enterprise Server Performance and Virtualization Capabilities Jul 21, 2009
Tokyo, July 21, 2009 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems, Inc. today enhanced the performance and virtualization capabilities of their chip multi-threaded (CMT) SPARC Enterprise server lines with the addition of 1. T2 and T2 Plus processors and a new release of Logical Domains (LDoms) virtualization software, leveraging the latest release of the Solaris Operating System (OS). (JCN Network, Japan)
MetaFilter turns ten Jul 16, 2009
His work is amazing but even more so when you consider the site spits out roughly 18 million pages to 9 million people a month using ColdFusion and just three servers (one web server, one database server, and one just for images and other static files) ... His work is amazing but even more so when you consider the site spits out roughly 18 million pages to 9 million people a month using ColdFusion and just three servers (one web server, one database server, and one just for images and other... (Harper's Magazine)
Hedgehog Enterprise 2.2 provides a comprehensive view of database activity Jul 14, 2009
Pros: Instantaneous database activity monitoring and reporting Cons: Installation of sensor software for each database Performance: A Ease of Use: B Features: B+ Value: A Price: $2,400 per database server processor core ... In addition, they must install a sensor program on each database server that runs Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server ... The sensor runs in a dedicated operating system and monitors all traffic to and from its assigned database server, which can have any number of databases... (FCW.com)
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT Jul 5, 2009
By Jani Jarvinen - Published 06/10/2009 Let Jani show you how to how use SQL's profiler tools to createtraces of all SQL statements executed by your database server, and how to benefit from this during the development phase as well. By Jeffrey Juday - Published 05/27/2009 Let Jeffrey Juday show us an easy way to REST with the. (IntranetJournal)
Reports Of Jackson's Death Roil Wikipedia Jun 26, 2009
The site reported the error: "Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.... Cannot contact the database server: Unknown error (10.0.6.24))". Plenty of blogs echoed TMZ's report, but news organizations tended to be more cautious. (CBS News)
Forward Fast May 17, 2009
SeaChanges new VOD navigation tool, Affinity, lets viewers set personalized preferences on a Web portal that are communicated to a database server at the operators headend. The information is then transferred to SeaChanges Axiom back-office software, which inserts the changes into the on-screen viewer guide, thus creating a personalized on-demand experience. (Multichannel News)
Schooner Serves Up Faster Web 2.0 Caches Apr 15, 2009
That way, the Web server doesn't have to keep going back to the database server, reducing latency and improving the user experience. The Schooner offerings are 2U appliances that comes with two Intel Xeon 5560 processors based on the chipmaker's Nehalem technology, 64GB of memory and half a terabyte of storage via Intel's X25E solid-state drives. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Optimizing MySQL database performance Mar 28, 2009
If MySQL is running on a dedicated database server (another way to boost performance), you can allocate as much as fifty to eighty percent of the memory to this setting ... Otherwise, when you restart the database server, your configuration changes will be lost. (Search Enterprise Linux)
Test Center's SMB virtualization guide Mar 6, 2009
There might be six servers, including a couple of domain controllers that also run DNS and DHCP services, perhaps a Microsoft Exchange server, a Web server, a database server, and a file server. These systems might be running on any mix of hardware, with the most active services using the newest, fastest boxes, while the domain controllers and the file server might get by on older equipment. (InfoWorld)
Microsoft Issues IE Patch in February Update Feb 13, 2009
Microsoft today released its monthly Patch Tuesday update, targeting eight vulnerabilities spread across Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser, Exchange mail server, SQL database server and Office applications. At the top of the patch list is Internet Explorer, which is receiving an update rated "Critical" by the company, designed to close a pair of vulnerabilities. (eSecurityPlanet)
Steps taken to avoid ANGEL crash Feb 8, 2009
"We've more than doubled the number of Web servers, and we have a larger, faster database server," she said. "We've also developed a list of functions within ANGEL that will not be available during finals week, and that's to manage the load on the system.". (Daily Collegian, PA)
