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Taobao.com Runs China's Busiest Data Warehouse on 20 Node Database Cluster

Founded in 2003 by Alibaba.com, Taobao.com is Asia's largest online shopping Web site. The company engages in Consumer-To-Consumer (C2C) and Business-To-Consumer (B2C) trading and has a 70% share of the online market in China. Taobao.com has used Oracle Database and clusterware products since 2004, building an enterprise data warehouse to...

Tags: China, Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Taobao.com, B2C, Databases, Storage, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

Case studies 2009-08-01

Taobao.com Spearheads the Rise of China's Online Auction and Shopping Market Segment With Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor Technology

Back in 2003, when online auction and shopping in mainland China was still in its infancy, Taobao.com was set up to cater to the fledgling market segment. Today, the website has thoroughly changed not only the online auction and shopping ecology in China, but also the process of matching buyers...

Tags: China, Quad-core, Online Auction, Intel Corp., Taobao.com, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet

Case studies 2008-01-01

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iTunes gift cards cracked and selling for 1.3 cents on the dollar

Chinese crackers have cracked the iTunes gift card system and started a business selling counterfeit iTunes codes on Chinese auction sites such as Taobao.com. According to The Register the fake iTunes gift cards are created using key generators, using a technique previously applied to Windows activation hacks. Business in...

Tags: Gift Card, Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-03-11

What's Yahoo worth to Microsoft without Alibaba?

What's Yahoo worth to Microsoft without Alibaba?Well done Chinafor joining the EU and the US on the anti-trust front. Now I've got a feeling that they'll be more like the EU, in actually using the anti-trust regulations, than the US, who can't because Penelope and Rupert don't allow it.Will China...

Tags: Investment, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Worth, Alibaba, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-03-28

Taobao.com Turns to Grid Computing to Improve System Performance and Reliability

Founded in 2003, Taobao.com is the leading shopping Web site in China, with a 70% share of the market and more than 40 million registered members. Taobao.com wanted to design more and better promotions to attract customers and make better use of business data to inform decision making and Web...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Scalability, Grid Computing, Web Site Development, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Internet, It service Management, Networking

Case studies 2008-02-01

Researchers map China's underground cybercrime economy

Researchers from Peking University in Beijing and the University of Mannheim in Germany released a paper this week that aims to map the underground cybercrime economy in China. The paper concludes that 1.49 percent of the 145,000 most popular sites in China "contain some kind of malicious content." While...

Tags: Asset, China, Researcher, Trojan Horse, Malware, Web Site, Attack, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Asset Management, Security, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-06