Commentary – Data encryption has become a necessary component to most enterprise data security strategies. Enterprises can no longer rely on basic authentication and access control tools to protect sensitive data, as was commonplace five or so years ago when they only had a handful of databases to oversee. Today, companies are dealing with hundreds, [...]

There’s a lot to like about MySQL databases if you’re a start-up, until success comes knocking a bit too fast. When big data demand soars then MySQL can sour on making the transactions needed on time. Sharding the application and data resources has been about the only answer, other than to painfully and expensively cut [...]

ZDNet 20th Anniversary Special Happy birthday, ZDNet! Twenty years ago, this site began as a subscription-based digital service… Article source: http://www.zdnet.com/photos/science-and-engineering-visualization-contest-winners-images/6342632

Big Blue has 30,000 employees sporting iPhones, 10,000 toting iPads, and another 10,000 workers carrying MacBooks, according to a presentation last week at Macworld iWorld. That’s 50,000 Mac and iOS devices total. Now, as many of you know, I maintain a list of the iPad enterprise deployments, along with a separate list of the 50 [...]

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Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 25 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline. She has kept close tabs on Microsoft strategy, products and technologies for the past 10 years. In the late 1990s, she penned the award-winning “At The Evil Empire” column for ZDNet, and more recently [...]

Michael Dell on HP, Apple in 1997, and Steve Jobs At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Computer, talks about the… Article source: http://www.zdnet.com/videos/events/apple-launches-digital-textbooks/6340195

Since 1998, Phil Wainewright has been a thought leader in cloud computing as a blogger, analyst and consultant. He founded pioneering website ASPnews.com, and later Loosely Coupled, which covered enterprise adoption of web services and SOA. As CEO of strategic consulting group Procullux Ventures, he has developed an evaluation framework to help ISVs and enterprises [...]

Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet’s sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news [...]

Writing publicly about what the high-tech industry is actually doing to help itself and the world get greener or more sustainable is one way I figure I can contribute more meaningfully to said effort. I am also a big OMG-kind-of-fan of smart leadership, which is why the goodly folks who publish this blog let me [...]