Databases

Startup skirts datacenter bottlenecks with cache

Gear6 CACHEfx's cache-in-a-box approach serves data quickly to I/O-heavy apps

SOA is DOA, unless you break the bottlenecks

Plus: Longhorn love affair and an IT ghost story

Social Security, spyware bills go to House vote

The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved modified versions of a pair of bills aimed at curbing abuse of social security numbers and computer spyware, respectively

My TechED Survival Guide

OK, with TechED just around the corner, I thought I'd shoot you guys a little list of things you can do to make TechED a little less miserable. It's not that the conference itself is miserable, it's just being out of town for a week, a

3Leaf Systems: Scale up by scaling out

Silicon Valley virtualization startup pools commodity servers, reshaping enterprise datacenters

Building trust in downloads no simple feat

Truste hopes to become a virtual clearinghouse for trustworthy software distribution

Symantec pitches rootkit tech as Veritas validation

Symantec's Raw Disk Scan rootkit search-and-remove app is an example of what kind of technology the Symantec-Veritas merger will bring forth

Microsoft to ship next SQL Server in 2008

Company also boosts BI by acquiring SoftArtisans' OfficeWriter

Infrastructure security powers up

Cryptome afloat despite Deepwater’s ripple

Online resource manages to weather defense contractor scandal despite being shut down by its ISP