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Last month Teradata acquired Xkoto, a database virtualization vendor, without releasing financial information about the purchase, and is letting others speculate on its intentions for the purchase as well. One thought is that Xkoto’s GRIDSCALE, which load balances all database servers in a cluster using and virtualizes a pool of database servers to appear as […]

“We are proud to introduce Insure-J on Oracle Database 11g, which builds on our established relationship with Oracle,” said Kevin Gaut, chief technology officer at SSP, a global provider of insurance technology. With Insure-J now supporting Oracle 11g, SSP is able to give its customers the scalable, reliable, and secure software architecture that they need.

Continuent Tungsten now supports PostgreSQL 9 with new capabilities to support advanced hot standby and streaming replication, creating advanced data services for highly available data services from multiple PostgreSQL databases, and offering the processing power to scale economically and efficiently. Tungsten also provides: Easily managed database clusters which improve performance and allow economical, efficient scaling […]

Application Security Inc’s AppDetectivePro has been chosen by Telos Corporation for database assessments. With its agentless database technology, AppDetectivePro discovers, examines, reports and proposes fixes for database security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations; provides user access controls; and can be implemented quickly. Says Telos, “AppDetectivePro allows us to significantly reduce our resource requirements and increase assessment efficiency… […]

In a move in support of R, the open-source language for statistical analysis and for those who don’t know the Oracle Database or SQL well, Oracle now has a user interface for Oracle’s Data Mining software that supports R. The interface (downloadable at no charge)is external of Oracle’s software, and consists of function wrappers that […]

Now a commercially supported product, VoltDB is a database system designed for extreme transaction processing. Touted as being faster and with better results than other relational systems, VoltDB: Automatically distributes itself, and its data, over a cluster, residing in a server’s memory Doesn’t call to disk while loading data from tables Maintains data integrity in […]

Jolly Technologies has released Lobby Track version 5.0 which includes several new editions along with many new features. One of these is a new database architecture that is capable of supporting billions of records and has dramatically improved performance.

Oracle Database 11g has achieved a world record result of more than 1.6 million query navigation steps per hour on the SAP Business Intelligence-Data Mart standard application benchmark, beating the highest competitor by eight times the performance. Oracle Database with Oracle Real Application Clusters also demonstrated high performance and availability with 90 percent scalability when […]

Not all data management problems can be solved by a relational database, particularly when it involves giant sized chunks of data. IBM saw this and began offering a package of services called BigInsights Core that is based on Apache’s open source Hadoop. Hadoop, designed to filter, sort, and manage structured or unstructured data on a […]

Database cloud safety has risen to a new level as Cirrhus9, a privately-held cloud computing and consulting firm, and SecuCloud, a leader in database security and compliance solutions, have joined together. The C9 SecuCloud system: Runs on major databases Oracle, DB2, MS-SQL, and Sybase via Amazon Web Services and 3Tera’s Applogic cloud computing platforms Provides […]

It has been confirmed that Teradata, a leading provider of data warehousing and business intelligence, has just acquired Xkoto, a company making database virtualization software. However, financial terms will not be disclosed.

One of a database’s biggest security threats may be something that seems small and insignificant. And it’s not new. Very often when a database is deployed, an add-on is installed, or application using the database is installed, a default account and password is created. If not cleaned up by database administrators, these default passwords build […]