After 14 years measuring the world's most powerful servers, the TPC-C speed test is being supplanted by a new benchmark. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Transaction processing against relational databases may not be the focus of the datacenter, as it was when IBM created the first relational database and Oracle was founded to compete against it in the ...

The hyperscalers were quick to support AI agents and the Model Context Protocol. Use these official MCP servers from the major cloud providers to automate your cloud operations.

When it comes to mission-critical systems and databases, we all know that we need to plan for disaster. It's not the most exciting work; there's often little reward even when it's well done, and the ...

Good hackers today are businesspeople, assessing each target for the simplest and most profitable attack scenarios. These days, there are probably no plumper targets than enterprise databases.

At least one Chinese hacking crew is currently scanning the internet for Windows servers that are running MySQL databases so they can infect these systems with the GandCrab ransomware. These attacks ...