The rapid spread of the “SQL Slammer” worm showed that highly vulnerable desktop servers are everywhere. Here’s how enterprises can shut them down for good. What You Need to Know New security concerns ...

On the eve of another Strata week, EMC Greenplum announced Pivotal HD, a Hadoop distribution that is tightly integrated with an MPP database engine called HAWQ. What all this alphabet soup means is ...

Last week, a large scale SQL Injection attack dubbed LizaMoon, referencing one of the domain names used in the attack, surfaced. This attack targets websites by injecting code that redirects visitors ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

Paul Schnackenburg walks through an implementation of public cloud computing for a small business IT infrastructure and shares what lessons were learned along the way. My articles usually consist of ...