Friday, May 13, 2011
IBM courts Oracle database users with migration deal Big Blue offers complimentary assessments and services for Oracle database and middleware customers interested in a switch. IBM’s message is they can “move up”
Friday, May 06, 2011
Oracle begins work on MySQL 5.6 The next version of MySQL, version 5.6, will be geared toward better performance and replication. Pre-warming the pool cache is a potential new capability
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Couchbase offers NoSQL for iPhone Introducing NoSQL to the world of mobile applications, Couchbase has released a beta version of its CouchDB non-relational database for the iPhone iOS
Friday, April 22, 2011
FileMaker delivers flexible, cross-platform database OPINION: FileMaker doesn't get much respect as a business-class database, especially among Windows users. But it does offer the unique benefit of working across multiple operating systems and hardware platforms
Monday, April 11, 2011
Cloudera expands Hadoop ecosystem Cloudera has radically expanded the set of supporting tools for version 3 of its data processing framework, CHD3. There are now seven additional programs
Friday, April 08, 2011
BMC exploits IBM DB2 for mainframes BMC's new tools for IBM's DB2 version 10 leverages the recent hardware enhancements of the System z zIIP co-processor. How 23 of its mainframe service management applications have been upgraded
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
NoSQL needs standardization, says Microsoft The ever-growing number of non-relational, or NoSQL, databases needs standardization in order to thrive, two Microsoft researchers argue in the new issue of the Association for Computing...
Monday, April 04, 2011
MySQL gets live schema updating with Tokutek engine Database tools provider, Tokutek, offers an alternative MySQL storage engine for on-the-fly schema changes. What’s offered in version 5.0
Monday, April 04, 2011
Oracle releases beta for 11g database Express Edition The long-awaited free-of-charge version of Oracle’s flagship database is more than two years in the making. Not unexpectedly, it omits many of the features and options available for Oracle's main 11g database
Friday, March 11, 2011
SAP adds in-memory analytics to IBM database The two heavy weights join forces against rival Oracle and its Exadata platform, while touting benchmarks for HANA on Big Blue hardware
Friday, March 04, 2011
How a trucking firm drove out big errors in big data Before this, the conglomerate had 130 different applications with no data integration nor stewardship for the data, and no master database. The balkanized IT environment led to data chaos. How they fixed it
Thursday, March 03, 2011
Teradata acquires Aster Data, boosts 'big data' wares Plans to buy data warehousing and analtyics startup Aster Data Systems continues a run of consolidation in the market for technology that can process ever-growing amounts of data
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Terracotta adds search to transactional databases The software vendor adds analysis capabilities to its cached database, following the likes of SAP and Kogitio in merging analytics and transactions into a single operation
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
EMC to buy data warehouse vendor Greenplum EMC will continue to offer all current Greenplum products after it acquires the company, a move that aligns with the popularity of cloud computing
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Plattner to renew pitch for in-memory databases In a video self-interview, SAP's co-founder previews his Sapphire keynote speech that will include the topic of in-memory computing
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
FEATURE: Juggling ERM with in-house data While enterprise rights management locks down corporate secrets, it can still allow employees to do their jobs. Here’s how
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
IBM will debut info management tool IBM’s InfoSphere Business Information Monitor tracks how well data moves from databases to business intelligence reports. The software is based on real-time enterprise database-monitoring technology from Guardium 
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Social media data not yet useful for analytics A new survey by Kognitio reveals businesses don’t yet find much intelligence in the data that social media tools produce. The reasons business intelligence experts don’t care much for Twitter and Facebook
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
New version of Groovy language warms up to Java, SQL Version 1.7 of the programming language features a few old Java class tricks and some additions to ease the burden of working with SQL-based databases. Version 1.8 is already in the works … find out what’s planned
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
2009’s software development winners and losers The year that loved smartphones, scripting languages, the cloud, and open source was not always kind to developers. Check out these winner and losers of 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Data virtualization masks what’s underneath Servers, storage and desktops aren’t the only things being virtualized. Data virtualization can give enterprise workers the right data they need for their job regardless of where it sits and how it looks underneath
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Microsoft adds access controls for SQL Azure online database Companies will be able to define, enforce policies controlling who can see what data. Upcoming features: database clone, continuous backup
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Zetta cloud storage aimed at enterprise The Zetta Enterprise Storage Cloud is released for general availability
Monday, October 19, 2009
Oracle should sell database - MySQL co-founder The MySQL database needs a home where there will be no conflicts of interest, says Michaek “Monty” Widenius, co-founder and creator of the open-source database
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Six ways we surrender privacy From the U.S.’s Patriot Act to Google Apps, GPS devices and iPhones, RFID tags and Twitter tweets, individuals are slowly but willingly giving away bits and bites of private information. Here’s how we might be able to get some back...