Recently, I was involved with the implementation of a replication solution at an electric utility company. This implementation was the center piece of a disaster recovery (DR) implementation for one of their power plants. Normally, when a replication solution is implemented, data recoverability at the remote site is mandatory. After all, what good is the ...

The company that made its billions selling ads for Web searches is now officially in the telecommunications business, as Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) demonstrated Tuesday with the launch of its branded Nexus One smartphone. However, can the same success that saw “Google” become a verb be translated to the burgeoning mobile market? Is there anything in ...

Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) says it will focus strongly on customer service and support for customers of both its products and those of Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA), whose acquisition it completed on Wednesday. “We believe our customers deserve the best level of support and it’s our job to make that extremely compelling,” Juergen Rottler, executive vice ...