Google has surprised the tech world with an announcement that it will launch its own operating system, aimed initially at the cheap, portable computers known as netbooks. It's the first-time Google ...

Neel Somani, a researcher and technologist from the University of California, Berkeley, has seen firsthand how big traffic spikes can trip up even top tech companies. They use distributed systems, ...

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there ...