Almost all database workloads are now (or eventually will be) virtualized. High availability (HA) clusters using virtual servers provide the application protection needed to satisfy even the most ...

Depending on how you look at it, a database is a kind of sophisticated storage system or storage is a kind of a reduction of a database. In the real world, where databases and storage are separate, ...

Unstructured data is proliferating massively. It is growing in volume by more than 50% a year, and according to IDC, it will form 80% of all data by 2025 and does so already for some organisations.

IDC estimates that upwards of 80% of business information is likely to be formed of unstructured data by 2025. And while “unstructured” can be something of a misnomer, because all files have some sort ...