Survey: Hardware usually causes Oracle database woes

Faulty hardware, not hackers, caused most of the unplanned downtime experienced by Oracle databases in the past year, according to the results of a recent survey by the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG).

Despite the growing need for round-the-clock availability, more than seven out of 10 Oracle databases were down for more than an hour in the past year, according to the IOUG's April survey, which included 265 members -- most of them database administrators, developers or managers.

It wasn't natural disasters, power outages or security breaches that were behind most incidents, according to the survey. Security incidents led to only 1 percent of unplanned database outages. Power outages and natural disasters accounted for just 7 percent and 4 percent of unplanned database outages, respectively.


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Samsung ready to take on Cisco

Samsung Electronics Co. has started shipping a router designed for corporate users, part of a planned assault on a market long dominated by Cisco Systems, executives said Wednesday.

"By the year 2010, we are trying to get around 10 percent of the market share for the enterprise market," said Hwan Woo Chung, vice president of Samsung's Mobile WiMax Group, during the CommunicAsia exhibition in Singapore.

The addition of networking products for corporate users rounds out Samsung's product line, which already includes cellular handsets and carrier networking products, Chung said. But the move puts the company in uncharted territory, addressing the needs of corporate customers, which differ from those in the consumer and operator markets where the company has traditionally played.


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Communication Growth History

900 BC - The Very first postal service for government use in China

776 BC - First recorded use of homing pigeons used to send message of the Olympic Games winner to the Athenians

200 BC - Human messengers, on foot or horseback, became in Egypt and China with 'Messanger relaying stations' built

1831 - Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph

1835 - Samuel Morse invents Morse Code

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell patents the Electric Telephone

1902 - Gulielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from cornwall to newfoundland - the first radio signal acorss the Atlantic Ocean

1951 - Computers are first sold commercially

1957 - Sputnik, the first satellite communication launched into space by the then USSR

1973 - The TCP/IP was born {Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol } INTERNET