At the heart of it, an application server is simply an environment that enables your enterprise applications to run and be properly serviced at runtime. Of course, there are many vendors out there ...

Servers are complicated machines, requiring cool rooms and regular updates and maintenance to run properly. The problem is, many IT departments are understaffed, and adding server management on top of ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

There's been a shift in the enterprise Java community when it comes to what has commonly been referred to as an "application server." What was an application server? Historically, when an enterprise ...

Oracle released on Tuesday an application server aimed at midsize companies, part of the company's drive to spur sales of its server software. At the Oracle OpenWorld customer conference in London, ...

Business problem: Faced with massive expansion, a title company was struggling to maintain IT service levels. Its employee population had tripled to 1,000 people at 40 offices in the past year. Some ...

Oracle Corp. is enhancing its database and application server management tools in a bid to help IT workers run ever-larger systems with less effort. In the future, database administrators using the ...

"Application uptime and end-user experience are now core business metrics, so IT professionals must ensure performance amidst mounting complexities and hybrid IT challenges," said Christoph Pfister, ...

During tests, turning on selected extensions was simple using a new Web Services Extensions folder in the Application Server Management snap-in (see screen). However, some extensions—such as those for ...