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Article | 29/05/2012 Oracle prepares to enter PaaS wars
Oracle may lay out how it plans to become a player in the burgeoning PaaS (platform as a service) market next week during a webcast event featuring CE...
Article | 22/05/2012 SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight
Due to incorrect information provided by the vendor, the story "SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight," posted to the wire on May 16, ...
Article | 17/05/2012 SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight
SAP seems to be betting its future on its HANA in-memory database, spotlighting the technology once again at the Sapphire conference in Orlando Wednes...
Article | 10/05/2012 Salesforce.com's Heroku rolls out new cloud database options
Salesforce.com's Heroku division this week rolled out two entry-level tiers for its Postgres-based cloud database service, hoping to cater to applicat...
Article | 2/05/2012 SAP's Sikka fires back against Oracle's 'falsehoods' about HANA
SAP's technology chief has given a strong rebuttal to a recent presentation by an Oracle executive that was critical of SAP's HANA in-memory database,...
Article | 28/04/2012 Researcher misinterprets Oracle advisory, discloses unpatched database vulnerability
Instructions on how to exploit an unpatched Oracle Database Server vulnerability in order to intercept the information exchanged between clients and d...
Article | 25/04/2012 Users: Oracle Exadata's speed comes at a price
Few Oracle products in recent years have received as much hype as the Exadata database machine, with the vendor attempting to use it as a standard-bea...
Article | 14/04/2012 Google adds new options for viewing data in Fusion Tables
Google is trying to popularize the somewhat obscure art of data visualization by adding more user-friendly options to its Fusion Tables app.
Article | 12/04/2012 Oracle previews MySQL 5.6
Offering a glimpse of the new features some database administrators will be working with before too long, Oracle has posted a preview version of the n...
Article | 11/04/2012 SAP lays out plans to become big player in databases, mobile
SAP made a series of announcements on Tuesday as part of its bid to become a high-profile player in the database market alongside the likes of Oracle ...
Article | 10/04/2012 NEC launches software to quickly find video clips in large archives
NEC has begun sales of new software to quickly find video clips in large archives, which is well-suited for finding illegal content on video sharing w...
Article | 10/04/2012 Twitter releases its MySQL scalability tweaks
Twitter has released some of the tweaks it has made to MySQL, potentially bringing greater scalability to the open-source relational database manageme...
Article | 6/04/2012 MySQL now has two user conferences
At one point last year, it looked as if the popular open-source MySQL database was in danger of having no user conference. Now it has two.
Article | 5/04/2012 Larry Ellison: Hardware-software integration key, Apple is best example
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison claims his company will continue to bet on selling high-end custom hardware for its software products, even amidst a growing ...
Article | 5/04/2012 Open-source data mapping tool CartoDB provides customizable views
Vizzuality launched an open-source data-mapping tool CartoDB this week, promising an easy and customizable way for users to display their geospatial d...