The Transaction Processing Performance Council should add an additional metric for availability to its set of database performance benchmarks, Microsoft researchers plan to argue at the upcoming TPC ...

"Vodafone's business and applications have comprehensive service, market, and regional configurations guided by strict performance, scale, and functional requirements," said Pedro Sardo, CIO, Shared ...

We’re all familiar with the IT “war room” scenario. When there’s an issue, members of the IT team come together to troubleshoot and find a solution. For organizations with important applications, such ...

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Oracle's Globally Distributed Autonomous Database has reached general availability and can help organisations achieve the highest levels of scalability and availability while addressing data ...

Scalability and elasticity are related, though they are different aspects of database availability. Both scalability and elasticity help to improve availability and performance when demand is changing ...