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DB2 Express-C helps Russian ISV improve performance 5-10 times

If you spend any time in the fast growing Russian IT market there is one name you will no doubt be familiar with. I am not talking about Microsoft, Oracle, HP or even IBM. A company with a very short name “1C” is an icon of the Russian IT economy. Founded in 1991, 1C helped the newly formed Russian companies to get proper accounting and other financial management footing to be able to compete on the local markets and to enter and, in many cases, lead in the global economy. 1C is a major software distributor and an award winning game developer. If [...]

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Cheap storage just got even cheaper

When a database person mentions storage, images of cabinets full of disk drives and cables come to mind. But, since in my recent post I promised to talk about cloud computing I figured I’d talk about a different kind of storage. I am talking about storage that you can’t see or touch; I am talking about storage in the cloud. When Amazon (the people that sell us books and CDs) launched their web services AWS, S3 was one of the first services to go online. S3 stands for “Simple Storage Service”. Amazon built out a very significant IT [...]

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