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Hands on: HP's Enterprise Database Consolidation Appliance

Posted February 10, 2012 - 12:47 pm

If you're like most enterprises, you have data everywhere. It's in line-of-business applications. It's in directories. It's in various departmental servers. It's in your e-commerce platform. To manage all this, most shops use databases of all sizes running on a variety of operating systems and database applications, often from different vendors and editions. Chances are, they're not consistent.
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RainStor launches Hadoop version of enterprise database

Posted January 18, 2012 - 9:11 pm

Online database repository provider RainStor unveiled what it is calling the industry's first enterprise-class database that runs natively on Hadoop.
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Fundamental Oracle flaw revealed

Posted January 18, 2012 - 11:31 am

A design decision made by Oracle architects long ago may have painted some of Oracle's largest customers into a corner. Patches have arrived, but how much will they correct?
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Oracle's 'thrown in the towel' on database patching, researcher claims

Posted January 17, 2012 - 8:34 pm

A security researcher today criticized Oracle for neglecting to patch its core database products, noting that the massive update slated for later Tuesday will set a record for the fewest fixes.
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MarkLogic ties its database to Hadoop for 'Big Data' support

Posted November 1, 2011 - 5:04 am

You can add MarkLogic to the growing list of database vendors rushing to embrace the open-source Hadoop programming framework for large-scale data processing.
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Open source WineHQ database breached

Posted October 13, 2011 - 2:29 pm

For the second time in two months, a major open source project has been breached. This time the victim is the WineHQ project which manages Wine, an open source technology that lets users install and run Windows applications on Linux, Mac, Solaris and other operating systems.
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A crash course in PostgreSQL, part 2

Posted September 12, 2011 - 12:03 pm

This crash course in PostgreSQL explains how to populate table structures with data.
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VMware launches cloud-packaged Postgres

Posted August 29, 2011 - 7:00 am

Augmenting its line of software to support cloud deployments, VMware has created a package for running the Postgres database in a virtualized environment, the company announced Monday.
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A crash course in PostgreSQL, part 1

Posted August 24, 2011 - 8:00 am

PostgreSQL is more than an RBDMS, it's an object-relational database management system a traditional relational database with an object-oriented database model. This open source hybrid is easy to set up and learn.
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Oracle Q4 profits top estimates; shares fall after hours

Posted June 23, 2011 - 3:56 pm

Shares of Oracle fell in extended trading Thursday after the database giant reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue that fell just shy of estimates.
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Optimizing a FileMaker database for iPad or iPhone

Posted May 18, 2011 - 8:53 am

If you use a FileMaker Pro database on your iPad or iPhone using FileMaker Go, chances are it doesn’t work as well as it could. Here are a few simple optimizations that will boost your productivity.
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SAP goes after Oracle's database with ASE

Posted May 17, 2011 - 9:47 am

SAP will finish porting its ERP (enterprise resource planning) application to the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) database later this year, giving customers now running Oracle and other platforms a lower-cost alternative, the company announced Tuesday during the Sapphire conference in Orlando.
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Oracle CFO resigns suddenly

Posted April 25, 2011 - 6:14 pm

Oracle announced on Monday that chief financial officer Jeff Epstein has resigned, effective immediately. No reason was given.
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Would you like your database in a cloud or a box?

Posted February 8, 2011 - 1:35 pm

The recent Microsoft-HP announcement of a range of database appliances based on Microsoft SQL Server and delivered preconfigured on HP hardware is part of a trend in delivering database technology. Microsoft's announcement means that they have joined the other major DBMS software vendors in offering especially customized hardware-software packages.
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EMC releases free edition of Greenplum MPP database

Posted February 1, 2011 - 4:51 pm

EMC today introduced a free Community Edition of the its Greenplum Database, a high-performance massively parallel processing database product.
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Oracle patching fewer database flaws as it adds more products

Posted January 20, 2011 - 8:46 am

Oracle's fast growing product set may be hampering its ability to create patches for database flaws in a timely fashion, security experts say.
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Database administrators prepare to move to the cloud

Posted December 14, 2010 - 11:08 am

Companies are set to move their databases into the cloud over the next couple of years.
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More (delightful) nastiness between Larry Ellison and HP

Posted December 3, 2010 - 8:17 pm

It's so sad when former business partners have a bitter falling-out. Unless, of course, you get to blog about it.
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Disruptive change in the database world: Get ready

Posted November 11, 2010 - 9:03 am

Major market shifts in the database world don't happen often. When they do, they're massive, creating an impact that can last 10 to 20 years. When I entered the job market, it was right at the tail end of the last major shift from the mainframe to client/server.
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Microsoft's new 'Denali' SQL Server now in beta

Posted November 9, 2010 - 2:07 pm

Microsoft on Tuesday will unveil the first developer preview of 'Denali,' the next major release of SQL Server.
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Database admins raise concerns over multiple systems

Posted October 28, 2010 - 2:14 pm

Almost three-quarters (72 percent) of database administrators have to manage at least two types of database platform, with 14 percent being forced to manage five different systems, according to research.
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Oracle releases 59 patches for security flaws, three critical

Posted July 13, 2010 - 8:47 pm

Oracle Corp. released 59 patches on Tuesday to fix security vulnerabilities across its entire range of database, application and middleware products.
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Database round-up

Posted July 1, 2010 - 7:09 pm

News you should know about relational database managers
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Cloudera preps Hadoop for the enterprise

Posted June 29, 2010 - 3:13 pm

Cloudera expands its commercial Hadoop packages
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Naked Oracle connections

Posted June 22, 2010 - 7:10 pm

Oracle is a top-of-the-fleet carrier: the cockpit is filled with specialized controls, and it assumes operation by a big crew. For development, tuning, and problem diagnosis, though, you sometimes need to "start the engines" as quietly and simply as possible. Where's the "on" switch for such a situation?
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