
IRI Reflects on 40 Years of Unix
Unix first operating system was revealed by AT&T Bell Labs engineers Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan, and Dennis Ritchie in September 1969 on a DEC PDP-7 minicomputer. Read More
Unix first operating system was revealed by AT&T Bell Labs engineers Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan, and Dennis Ritchie in September 1969 on a DEC PDP-7 minicomputer. Read More
LDIF (Data Interchange Format) is a standard, plain text-based file format representing LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) data for address books, spreadsheets and other structured data forms that can be easily manipulated with a text editor. Read More
Data at Rest is Data at Risk. Mitigate the Risk through Data-Centric Security
Data Risk Mitigation … the need for it is on the rise in the United States and around the globe. Read More
Encryption key management is one of the most important “basics” for an organization dealing with security and privacy protection. Major data losses and regulatory compliance requirements have prompted a dramatic increase in the use of encryption within corporate data centers. Read More
ODBC, Open Database Connectivity, is an industry-standard application programming interface (API) for access to both relational and non-relational database management systems (DBMS). ODBC was first developed by the SQL Access Group (SAG) in 1992 in response to the need to access data stored in a variety of proprietary personal computer, minicomputer, and mainframe databases without having to know their proprietary interfaces.
Eclipse was originally started by IBM in the late 1990s in response to the need for a common development platform for all IBM products. Read More
Unicode began as a project in 1987 between Apple and Xerox engineers in response to a need for an international standard of representation for every character in all major languages of the world. Read More
Database Reorgs: Why They Matter, and the Difference between On-Line and Off-Line
Database reorgs are performed to save data space and improve database efficiency and performance. Read More
Data privacy breaches are becoming more and more prevalent and common in the United States today. Â Did you know that on average, as many as 72,000 documented breaches of personally identifiable information (i.e. Read More
What is business intelligence, and why is its rapid creation and delivery important?
Business intelligence, or BI, refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting and analyzing business data. Read More
One of the main concerns DBAs who need to unload big data from very large database (VLDB) tables have is speed. Faster unloading makes data accessible in different forms for different purposes and platforms. Read More