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From Oracle Database to Oracle Sun Server and Storage systems to JavaFX, Oracle now provides the complete technology solution behind MLB.com’s Fantasy Baseball game. Said Joe Choti, CTO, MLB.com that “MLB.com is proud of its long-standing technology relationship with Sun and Oracle, one that dates back to our inception a decade ago. Powering fantasy baseball […]

Now available from Sybase is its SQL Anywhere 12 database and synchronization solution. “SQL Anywhere 12 is a culmination of research and development that serves existing customers while addressing emerging requirements for embedded database server and mobile applications. This SQL Anywhere release breaks new ground with innovations for growing data volume, diverse data types and […]

Planning to move into open source is Twitter’s Crane, a tool built by Twitter to move data from MySQL to Hadoop, as well as the HBase distributed database, other MySQL databases, and more. According to Twitter analytics man, Kevin Wiel, seven terabytes of data goes into Hadoop a day with Crane handling tabular data, and […]

Becoming available July 30th are Isilon’s two data management software applications called SmartPools and InsightIQ. SmartPools creates a single file system by unifying multiple storage tiers, simplifying data management, eliminating manual data migration, and helping reduce cost; while InsightIQ enables easy identification and elimination of performance bottlenecks, increasing efficiency, and reducing storage requirements. “Using SmartPools […]

Oracle has just announced multiple upgrades to its Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System product line which is engineered and supported with Oracle Solaris, Oracle Database, Oracle Applications, Sun System software products, and more. These enhancements include: Integrated data deduplication and data compression which work in real-time, and deliver significant space and cost savings by […]

Most DBAs need to support multiple databases and often on different types of database platforms, and Embarcadero is hosting a webinar to discuss five important things for working with multiple databases: Schema and data migration and reporting Security management Object management and change management Detecting and diagnosing storage problems Diagnosing and repairing performance problems These […]

With Repscan now supporting a wide variety of database platforms including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 and MySQL databases, users can take advantage of more than 3,000 tests for vulnerabilities to help with compliancy. The current solution now has quick vulnerability checks that is based on port scans, gives access to penetration testing tools, […]

Databases usually provide the largest amount of marketable data in an enterprise, and the least secure databases are the first ones to get attacked. However, doing certain things can lessen the risk. Find the database servers: These may not only be in the data center, but also in embedded systems, research and development labs, and […]

Users of GoGrid’s cloud computing infrastructure can now protect their databases with Sentrigo, Inc.’s Hedgehog Enterprise and vPatch. Sentrigo’s Hedgehog provides security compliance for sensitive data while making it easy for the user with many templates including SOX, PCI-DSS, and SAS70. “Sentrigo’s host-based software approach monitors and audits data access from the inside of each […]

Database developers of the free database system PostreSQL have announced that the next bug fix or security update for versions 7.4 and 8.0 will be its last. The advice given is to upgrade to the current version 8.4.4 as even PostgreSQL 8.1 will be stop being updated in November.

A free beta version of the administrative tool Toad from Quest, but for NoSQL databases, is now available. This tool can not only bridge non-relational to relational database but also serve as a mechanism to migrate data and run queries against the two.

By upgrading to Oracle database 11g Metcash was able to not only consolidate hardware and minimize testing cycles but also: Performance improvements of near 300%; sighting changes to multi-million-row tables can now be done in seconds instead of hours With improved performance Metcash is able to keep more business data online; enabling them to analyze […]