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Trends & Applications

THE 15 TOP Information Management Trends for 2009

The old maxim, "may you live in interesting times" certainly holds true for IT managers and professionals these days. The year 2008 was full of changes and challenges, and 2009 promises even more.

Posted 15 Dec 2008 / December 2008 Issue - by Joe McKendrick

Columns — Applications Insight

The Challenge of Massively Parallel Desktops

MOORE'S law—first expressed by Intel cofounder Gordon Moore in 1965—predicts that computing power will increase exponentially, doubling roughly every 18 months. Moore's law has proved remarkably accurate and we have all benefited from the rapid growth in CPU and computer memory available for our desktop computers.

Posted 15 Dec 2008 / December 2008 Issue - by Guy Harrison

Columns — Database Elaborations

Penny-Wise but Pound-Foolish

Tight budgets and limited talent pools do not make a winning combination for staffing a database management group. Despite the importance of saving money, problems can arise when the lines blur regarding what gets wasted versus what gets saved.

Posted 15 Dec 2008 / December 2008 Issue - by Todd Schraml

Columns — DBA Corner

A Data-Tinged Look Back at 2008

As per my regular custom, this final column of the year will take a look back at the most significant data and database-related events of the year.

Posted 15 Dec 2008 / December 2008 Issue - by Craig S. Mullins

Columns — The Enterprise Environment

The Enterprise Economy, 2009

Even the best economists can't agree on what the business landscape will look like in the year ahead, but IT industry leaders agree that enterprises are likely to be more cautious than ever in how they spend their IT dollars (or euros, pounds, or rupees). Most also agree that any downturn that may be looming won't be a repeat of 2001, when IT departments were ravaged.

Posted 15 Dec 2008 / December 2008 Issue - by Joe McKendrick

Columns — Oracle Data Strategies

Database Replay in Oracle Database 11g

Posted 15 Dec 2008 / December 2008 Issue - by Dr. Arun Kumar R.

Columns — SQL Server Drill Down

Long-Term Changes Resulting from Policy-Based Management

Implementing PBM in your environment will probably require more than just a few superficial changes.

Posted 15 Dec 2008 / December 2008 Issue - by Kevin Kline

MV Community

BlueFinity Announces General Availability of mv.NET Version 4

BlueFinity International, a member of the Mpower1 Group of Companies, has announced the general availability of the latest version of mv.NET Version 4, its toolset designed for creating Microsoft .NET-based applications requiring access to MultiValue databases.