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Cisco’s latest moves in China include opening a Urumqi representative office and expanding the Shanghai research and development center. The Shanghai center will start with the telecom sector and expand to other areas in future. Built at a cost of $32 million, it is recruiting around 100 Chinese engineers to work better in the local market and cut costs. Read more »

It may be some kind of old news. But it is a fact that Nokia is dominating China’s and India’s handset market. Read more »

Google and Yahoo are probably the top 2 search engines used in the world today. Here are some facts about the 2 company. Read more »

Through their research, Forrester analysts speak with IT professionals and C-level executives across multiple markets and industries about technology and business issues. These companies share with Forrester some of their best and, in some cases, worst practices. Forrester often analyzes this information and publishes case studies that clients can learn lessons from. This Topic Overview presents our most popular case studies organized by technology and vertical industry.

The Oracle JDBC drivers use two different mechanisms to generate log output. Versions of the JDBC drivers for older versions of Java, 1.2 and 1.3, use a proprietary mechanism. Versions of the JDBC drivers for newer versions of Java, 1.4 and later, use the Java standard logging mechanism, java.util.logging This paper describes how to use java.util.logging with the Oracle JDBC drivers. The paper shows all the tools a person needs for most purposes. java.util.logging is a powerful tool with lots of switches and knobs.

Berkeley DB Java Edition is a 100% native Java, high-performance transactional database. It was designed to be functionally compatible with the ubiquitous, open source Berkeley DB and architecturally compatible with Java applications. This paper presents the design and implementation of Berkeley DB Java Edition (JE), focusing on how it provides fast, reliable storage services when embedded in applications that run in a JVM. JE uses a log-structured disk representation for its database objects, avoiding unnatural marshalling of objects onto pages. The combination of object-level caching and log-structured storage permits fine-grain latching and record-level locking for highly concurrent applications.

Choice Hotels International has eight brands that combine to offer more than 5000 lodging options open or under development worldwide. Though satisfied with its use of Vicinity, Choice Hotels wanted to completely reevaluate its website location solution to ensure it can meet current and future customer needs. Tapping the power of Microsoft Web Service, Choice Hotels developed a comprehensive website location solution across all eight of its hotel brands.

Learn how IBM Data Servers can provide you with: 1) a resilient and security-rich information management infrastructure that maximizes availability while minimizing planned outages; 2) a scalable, powerful solution that handles mixed workloads and spikes in demand to fully leverage your resources and help you fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs); 3) a productivity-boosting system with autonomic features that enable your information technology (IT) staff to work efficientlymaximizing resources and helping you to keep down the total cost of ownership; and 4) database servers that plug easily into your existing IT architecture.

This webcast discusses a variety of messages that may indicate malicious behavior in the network, or may at least merit a bit of investigation. The talk is primarily focused on UNIX syslog data, but Windows Event Logs are also included.

The results of the 2005 WinterCorp TopTen survey reinforce the theme of previous WinterCorp research - large databases are growing and will continue to grow. The largest database in the survey has grown exponentially, having tripled in size every two years since 2001. The 2005 results also reveal significant strengths for Oracle in the Very Large DataBase (VLDB) market, across multiple operating platforms and for both Data Warehouse (DW) and Transaction Processing (OLTP) systems. This paper examines results of the 2005 TopTen Program, which include 175 validated survey responses - with a particular focus on the 102 validated responses submitted by Oracle users.