Moving an application to a new processor type or chip vendor means creating an entirely new code base. That extra cost and delay is never welcome – especially today, when organizations face intense ...

choose wisely--applying the right type of application server to the right project--or suffer grave consequences: wasted costs, missed opportunities or failed projects. The first category is the "basic ...

In working for multiple companies I’ve been surprised at the lack of regimen that is used when deploying critical custom applications in their data center. There is a development process that some of ...

I was talking to a colleague the other day, and they made a statement that I found very interesting. In enterprise IT organizations, only transactional applications are of any real importance. I ...

There are many different ways to look at database administration. It can be done by task, by discipline, by DBMS, by server, and so on. But one useful way to look at database administration is in ...