In addition to a multimillion-dollar television advertising campaign that it launched last year, ING Americas is trying to buttress its online branding by consolidating scores of Web sites into a few ...

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is quickly becoming the de facto standard for exchanging corporate data via structured documents--whether internally, with business partners, or via public ...

Thousands of mobile applications, including popular ones, implement cloud-based, back-end services in a way that lets anyone access millions of sensitive records created by users, according to a ...

The danger of SQL injection last week hit the limelight once again when the British Royal Navy's website was shut down temporarily in response to an attack that had Royal Navy brass wondering whether ...

Relational database management systems have become all but ubiquitous in enterprise computing since 1970, when they were first devised by E.F. Codd. But as powerful and flexible as those databases are ...

The landscape of software development has undergone a significant transformation, with data engineering emerging as a crucial discipline while traditional back-end engineering roles evolve. This is ...

DevOps and Agile methodologies may help speed up and sync up software release cycles, but there's something that tends to get in the way of even the tightest operations -- back-end databases. Eight in ...