Bupa's IS director, Uwe Natho, said Oracle's main advantage over its rivals is the scalability of its products. Bupa has chosen Oracle to supply databases for its core business applications. Oracle will initially provide Bupa's customer call centre...
The software will support clusters of eight four-processor servers, scaling to 32 servers, Novell officials claim. It has been tested on up to 12 clusters. Novell finally will roll-out its clustering services for NetWare 5 this week, after more...
Brio has announced that its Brio.Report enterprise reporting product will be substantially enhanced to include WML (Wireless Markup Language) and XML in the range of output capabilities offered. Since Alltheweb.com currently indexes some 300...
Bringing the technology to NT allows users to configure NT clusters of up to 32 nodes and to manage up to 256 clusters from a single workstation. But this doesn't help address the related requirement of scalability.
However, the performance of the core server product can often be overshadowed by the extensive use of enhanced features. The decision to implement the product should be therefore made on how well the product performs without the optional extras...
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to trial enhanced RFID tags capable of being read from distances of more than 100 feet later this year in an attempt to improve the tracking of military supplies. We plan to trial an enhanced active RFID capability...