NetWare is often held up as the best x86 platform for file and print, due to its architecture. For example: stripped-down kernel, cooperative multitasking and protocol optimization for network file ...

Postgres pioneer Mike Stonebraker and Spark creator Matei Zaharia have cofounded a venture whose main product is a database-oriented operating system or DBOS — a high-performance distributed database ...

OS X allows you to assign an application to a document type or change this application, but does not allow you to clear this association. Here is one method for doing this. Topher, an avid Mac user ...

Is it possible to replace Linux as the heart of serverless cloud computing services? That's exactly the intention of a startup consisting of developers from the open source Postgres database project ...

One of the interesting design challenges facing the people supporting the IEED research effort discussed yesterday involves how much of the key applications to embed in the database design. In that ...

Next-generation database companies are developing technologies to help businesses manage increasing volumes of data and increasingly complex data types. Not Your Father’s Relational Database The world ...

Part 2 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data database system space. Left On Base The total amount of data created and replicated worldwide ...

You say application database server, but not what application, # of users, or expected load. Optimally for a production performance SQL server you would have 2 drives in raid 1 for OS, 2 drives in ...