Sunday, 2009-01-18, Copenhagen
Security software giant Check Point Software Technologies has recently announced that it will acquire Nokia's security appliance unit for an undisclosed price. The acquisition will give Check Point a significant boost in its appliance capacity. During the financial crisis, we will continue to witness more interesting deals that reorganize the IT industry.
The battle between AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon has been coming to the classic factors of power consumption and performance. Whether or not who wins, the consumers will get the best benefit as long as the two vendors at kept closer in their competitions.
SQL Server 2008 provides a new feature called "Performance Data Collector." This is a performance collection and analysis tool. Briefly, this too help DBAs by acting as a central dta repository (called Management Data Warehouse), collecting selected SQL Server performance data, and reporting performance data.
