Whatever form, shape and type of database we chose to use, the software that drives it fundamentally depends upon a chunk of hardware to exist, wherever that may be. So being effecient with ...

Joey on SQL Server. What's the Future of Database Hardware Post-Cloud? IT is moving toward the cloud and virtualization, but don't write off hardware -- especially for highly critical systems.

The hardware rollout, which was cooked up in a partnership with HP, is aimed the emerging problem of moving data from hard drives to database servers.

Many customers today run older versions of the Oracle database, going back to releases 7 and 8, on aging hardware from Hewlett-Packard and other vendors, according to Ezzell at BIAS.

IBM already offers two other $125,000 hardware accelerators for its mainframes. One, the Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) announced in 2000, speeds up Linux .

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