GUEST OPINION: Information is undoubtedly one of the most important resources a business can have. As such, business data protection should always be a priority – since there are plenty of different ...

The hard disk on my Linux machine recently filled up, so I had to get a bigger disk and resinstall. <BR><BR>Before I replaced the drive I backed up a MySQL database I had on the system. All I did was ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

To generate interest from developers, Boston-based Akiban Technologies has released as open source its flagship database software, called Akiban Server. The company also released a connector for ...

Facebook is offering its users another glimpse under the hood of its back-end operations -- this time with a focus on how all of its data is backed up. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company described ...

Finding a good free backup solution is easier than you’d think. A host of companies offer free online backup or free backup software—and perhaps surprisingly, nearly all of them are quite competent.

With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL, which uses SQL ...