Is Oracle playing the security spin game? Several researchers who reported vulnerabilities to the vendor during its latest software patch cycle think so.
Time travel is perhaps the most alluring feature of continuous data protection, or CDP. In stark contrast to traditional nightly data backups to tape, CDP solutions record every change to specified file types, allowing government users to move systems backward in time--two hours or even two minutes--and recover information that was perfectly intact before a nasty virus hit or servers crashed.
DataDirect Technologies' Stylus Studio 2007 XML Enterprise Suite comes with two new tools that help developers create powerful XML solutions without coding.
Scott reports on his recent Data Management survey. You'll be surprised by the results. Lots of companies have a data group, but much of the time, they aren't being used effectively.