Wednesday, July 04, 2012
Leap second bedevils Web systems over weekend Reddit, LinkedIn and other sites were knocked offline by an extra second added to the official time
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Putting predictive analytics to work Contrary to popular opinion, you don't need a huge budget to get started
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
IT-centric BI models unsustainable, says Forrester Fast-changing business intelligence requirements drive need for self-service BI
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Hadoop becomes critical cog in the big data machine As more and more companies use Hadoop to handle big data, anticipation for forthcoming Version 2.0 grows
Monday, June 18, 2012
Toronto firm does big data chemistry in the cloud 1DegreeBio is a database hosted on Amazon Web Services that lets scientific researchers search millions of antibodies through a simple search engine
Friday, June 08, 2012
The time for NoSQL standards is now Like Larry Ellison's yacht, the RDBMS is sailing into the sunset. But if NoSQL is to take its place, a standard query language and APIs must emerge soon
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Oracle buys Collective Intellect for 'social intelligence' The move is just the latest instance of the rivalry between Oracle and Salesforce.com
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
NoSQL vendor 10Gen secures $42M in fresh funding Money will fund new development of MongoDB, fast-growing company says
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Oracle prepares to enter PaaS wars Oracle's platform as a service strategy may take center stage at an event with CEO Larry Ellison next week
Friday, May 25, 2012
Microsoft's new server and tool upgrades and CIOs Windows Server 2012, SQL Server 2012, System Center 2012 and Visual Studio 11 undergo refresh cycle
Friday, May 25, 2012
How to make PHP apps scale The most popular language for Web apps, PHP tends to buckle under heavy loads -- unless you opt for cloud scaling and a NoSQL back end
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Funds pour into big data vendors Investors jump on the big-data bandwagon. Many see it as a good bet, but others warn about hype
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
10 essential performance tips for MySQL From workload profiling to the three rules of indexing, these expert insights are sure to make your MySQL servers scream
Friday, May 11, 2012
Interview: Tim Vincent on the new IBM DB2 10 RADIO ITWC: IBM's Tim Vincent gives us the rundown on IBM's new big data-ready database and date warehousing offering
Monday, May 07, 2012
IDC: Expect big growth in Hadoop, MapReduce revenue The analyst firm predicts banner days ahead for the 'big data' programming frameworks
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
7 top tools for taming big data Top-flight reporting, analysis, visualization, integration, and development tools that help you harness Hadoop
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
NEC launches software to quickly find video clips in large archives The Japanese technology company's software runs on a standard PC and uses a small database of signatures for searching
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Twitter releases its MySQL scalability tweaks Courtesy of Twitter, MySQL has more capabilities to scale to NoSQL levels
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Oracle net income up 18%, but hardware sales slump Oracle tries to soften the hardware blow, emphasizing the company's focus on specialized systems, not commodity boxes
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Microsoft finalizes SQL Server 2012 New version to be released April 1 has been bolstered with solid-state and columnar functionality
Friday, March 02, 2012
Teradata introduces more ‘intelligent’ DB analytics Teradata 14 now has the capability to query columns, a major benefit for doing business analytics
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Microsoft, Hortonworks to link Excel and Hadoop Microsoft teams with Hortonworks to develop an ODBC and a JavaScript library for Hadoop
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Spring Java developers get Hadoop integration VMware's Spring Hadoop offers link between Spring development framework and Hadoop distributed processing platform
Monday, February 27, 2012
Oracle's Exalytics set for showdown with SAP's HANA Both systems incorporate in-memory processing
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Oracle lawsuit alleges 'gray market conspiracy' ServiceKey and DLT Federal Business Systems Corporation are named in Oracle's complaint