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  • Oracle plots grid computing consortium

    An executive with the database software maker says the company is building a consortium of industry players to help create standards for commercial use of grid computing.

  • Oracle unveils first hardware product

    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 programmable storage server aims to put database intelligence next to each drive.

  • Open source databases gaining favour

    Big companies are warming up to open-source database software, according to a new study.

  • Oracle ships grid software

    Oracle claims its Application Server 10g is the first to be able to take advantage of clusters of commodity hardware, an architecture that could make data centres far cheaper to run.

  • Oracle rejects grid computing assault

    Oracle has emphatically rejected claims by a leading figure in the European grid research community that vendor grid computing offerings were "overhyped".

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  • Database start-ups bet on open source

    Databases have been available with an open-source licence for many years. But the past few months have seen a growing number of partnerships and products aimed at maturing the industry of add-ons and support services -- vital to winning over corporate customers.

  • Oracle ships grid software

    Oracle claims its Application Server 10g is the first to be able to take advantage of clusters of commodity hardware, an architecture that could make data centres far cheaper to run.

  • Microsoft gets on the grid

    Looking to blunt the success of Linux in high-performance computing, Microsoft is ramping up its commitment to create a "Cluster Compute" version of Windows that better fits data-intensive computing grids.

  • Oracle's Brian Mitchell: Straight to the source

    Oracle Managing Director Brian Mitchell talks about clustering, unified document stores, hosted applications, and other future directions for the database giant.

  • Oracle enters the grid

    commentary A great leap for computer-kind or a small marketing step?

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Reviews (16)

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    Researchers build full Itanium support into software that can be used to assemble supercomputers out of clusters of Linux computers.

  • Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac (Special Media Edition)

    Office 2008 for Mac may be the best pick for business users, but most people can get by with less expensive alternatives.

  • Round-up: Dual-core servers

    Multi-core processors deliver many benefits, including much-improved performance per watt, over single-core designs. We examine three dual-core servers from the leading vendors to see what this technology can do for your business.

  • Data centre 101

    Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.

  • D'oh and un-d'oh: 4 disaster recovery solutions

    Everyone needs backups, but how do you recover a server quickly? We look at some of the options available for snapshot backup and other disaster recovery techniques.

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