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Open source databases are a hot topic these days as many companies are leaning still towards reducing budgets. Continuent is providing a webinar, Thursday, April 1, 2010 @ 1:00pm EST that will help viewers learn how to get value from managing MySQL and PostgreSQL clusters for continuous data availability in complex database environments—providing an overview […]

Running on a Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX600 S5 Server, Oracle 11g places a new stake in the sand for performance of BI application workloads. Equipped with an Intel Xeon X7560 2.26 GHZ processor, Oracle Database 11g Release 2 on Linux produced results of 854,649 query navigation steps per hour.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under the Data Protection Act (DPA) have been allowed to levy fines up to £500,000 for serious data breaches of losses in the UK. Imperva, the data security specialist, applauds this act and urges other governments to follow this lead to guard against security breaches with the standards of the […]

While HSBC’s database security breach was initially believed to be minor, it turns out that around 24,000 client records were actually stolen by one of the company’s former IT specialists. The reason this could happen? Poor accountability for IT super users. Database security experts say that financial organizations regularly make the same mistakes, things like […]

Data Warehouses store tons of data, and are highly optimize to support Business Intelligence applications.  Traditionally Data Warehouses are built using a relational database, with row-level data stores.  Now you can put your Data Warehouse in a database that has been designed from the bottom up to support Business Intelligence applications. Vertica has introduced its […]

During the economic down turn IT executives have to maintain their existing servers with less IT related dollars.  Doing more with less means, you need to work smarter, not harder.  What options do IT managers have to maintain and improve the services they provide while continuing to run the business with fewer dollars?  IT Managers […]

In a strategic move, Ingres and OpTech will be forming a strategic reseller agreement that will be bringing open source solutions to government agencies. OpTech will, as part of the relationship, be promoting, pushing, and encouraging migration to the open source Ingres database in favor of other databases such as Oracle and Sybase. Said Ronia […]

Clearly we have all seen a surge in the open source arena these days. With many mergers and acquisitions surrounding open source projects one would wonder how many companies are moving in that direction. Former MySQL CEO Mickos is confident in his evaluation, pointing to companies such as IBM and Oracle, who are deep into […]

Planned for release by May 2010 is Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit, which has been available in the Community Technology Preview testing stage. This SQL Server 2008 Training Kit is designed to help developers take advantage of new improvements, but also for developers new to SQL Server. Some of the […]

Oracle’s President Charles Phillips and Oracle Senior Vice President Richard Sarwal will be part of an Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g launch coming April 22, 2010—providing insight into how Enterprise Manager 11g uniquely integrates IT management. Along with managing Oracle databases, general and breakout sessions will discuss Enterprise Manager’s new capabilities that include: Integrated application-to-disk and […]

According to Curt Monash of intelligent enterprise, business and competition seems to be clear as a consistent picture emerges. As noted by Mr. Monash: There seems to be many vendors (such as Vertica and Infobright) that claim that business is going strong as well as several competitors in related businesses. Others such as Oracle’s Exadata […]

A file clerk was given 12 months probation for illegally accessing some 60 confidential passport files—proving once again that security threats are, if not more, prevalent within organizations. The unfortunate outcome, or piece of information, is that Debra Sue Brown (the file clerk) had been looking at sensitive information for close to three years and […]