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Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial

During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents filed Thursday.

By Chris Kanaracus | 24 May, 2012 16:49

Tags: Leo Apotheker, Charles Phillips, larry ellison, Application services, services, Civil lawsuits, intellectual property, legal, personnel, business issues, applications, software, hewlett-packard, TomorrowNow, oracle, sap

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, contained an improper characterization of the hardware used in a database cluster set up by SAP.

By Chris Kanaracus | 22 May, 2012 14:54

Tags: databases, applications, software, hardware systems, sap

10 essential performance tips for MySQL

As with all relational databases, MySQL can prove to be a complicated beast, one that can crawl to a halt at a moment's notice, leaving your applications in the lurch and your business on the line.

By Baron Schwartz | 14 May, 2012 20:11

Tags: software, mysql, data management, Database Design, Database Administration, applications

Investors are pouring funds into big data

Surging enterprise demand for tools that can manipulate and analyze massive volumes of structured and unstructured data has caught investor attention in a big way.

By Jaikumar Vijayan | 04 May, 2012 20:12

Tags: software, Sequoia Capital, IT industry, databases, cloudera, Capita, BI and Analytics, applications

Informatica, MapR team for Hadoop streaming

Apache Hadoop users will soon be able to analyze data as it is streamed from its source, thanks to a partnership between data-warehouse software provider Informatica and Hadoop distributor MapR.

By Joab Jackson | 05 March, 2012 20:00

Tags: applications, databases, data mining, data warehousing, informatica, MapR, software

What's the big deal about Hadoop?

Hadoop is all the rage, it seems. With more than 150 enterprises of various sizes using it -- including major companies such as JP Morgan Chase, Google and Yahoo -- it may seem inevitable that the open-source Big Data management system will land in your shop, too.

By Todd R. Weiss | 15 February, 2012 02:49

Tags: applications, databases, open source, software

Flexing NoSQL: MongoDB in review

The NoSQL movement has spawned a slew of alternative data stores, all of which attempt to fill voids left by traditional relational database implementations. But while it's easy to fit the various relational databases (MySQL, Oracle, DB2, and so on) under a single categorical umbrella, the NoSQL world is much more diverse, and the NoSQL label is too general. NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB and Cassandra are so vastly different from each other that apples-to-apples comparisons are practically impossible. Thus, within the world of NoSQL, there are subcategories such as key-value stores, graph databases, and document-oriented stores.

By Andrew Glover | 08 February, 2012 22:15

Tags: application development, applications, cloud computing, Data Explosion, data management, internet, Internet-based applications and services, mysql, NoSQL, open source software, oracle, software, web applications

Programming Opa: Web development, reimagined

Building a Web application today means using a variety of different software technologies, each executing in a different domain. JavaScript, HTML, and CSS in the browser; PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, or the like on the server; MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, or any of a growing list of database servers as your persistent storage back-end. With Opa, an open source Web development technology from the French company MLstate, building a Web application tomorrow could be much more straightforward -- and safer.

By Rick Grehan | 01 February, 2012 22:07

Tags: application development, mysql, php, software, web development

Oracle's 'thrown in the towel' on database patching, researcher claims

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.

By Gregg Keizer | 18 January, 2012 06:46

Tags: applications, databases, Malware and Vulnerabilities, mysql, oracle, security, software

Hadoop challenger works to add developers

LexisNexis has worked for more than a decade to develop a large scale system for Big Data manipulation, and it believes that it has produced something that's better and more mature than the better known Hadoop technology.

By Patrick Thibodeau | 22 December, 2011 22:29

Tags: applications, BI and Analytics, databases, Emerging Technologies, hardware systems, lexisnexis, SGI, software

Seattle hospital finds zero clients means better care, lower costs

Seattle Children's Hospital has installed 2,600 zero client devices in four locations, many connected with a wireless LAN that helps doctors and nurses access patient data at the bedside within seconds.

By Matt Hamblen | 15 December, 2011 00:12

Tags: applications, databases, hardware, hardware systems, health care, industry verticals, software, Wheels

Apache Cassandra ready for the enterprise

The developers behind Apache Cassandra are confident that their distributed database management system is ready for general enterprise use, and, after three years of development, have released version 1.0 of their open-source software.

By Joab Jackson | 19 October, 2011 07:46

Tags: Apache Software Foundation, applications, databases, DataStax, Jonathan Ellis, software

SGI to launch Cloudera Hadoop package

High performance computer system vendor SGI plans to offer pre-built clusters running the Apache Hadoop data analysis platform, the company announced Monday.

By Joab Jackson | 18 October, 2011 07:57

Tags: applications, Bill Mannel, cloudera, databases, data mining, data warehousing, Ed Albanese, SGI, software

Open source WineHQ database breached

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.

By Jaikumar Vijayan | 14 October, 2011 06:29

Tags: applications, Cybercrime and Hacking, databases, open source, software

Open source PostgreSQL 9.1 beta released

The PostgreSQL open source database project has released the first beta of version 9.1, which its developers say has more new features than appeared with the 9.0 release, including synchronous replication to help prevent data loss.

By Rodney Gedda | 03 May, 2011 00:00

Tags: databases, open source, postgresql

Oracle angles MySQL for Web apps

With the release of MySQL version 5.5, Oracle is marketing the open-source database for Web application duties, while targeting its namesake Oracle database for enterprise applications.

By Joab Jackson | 16 December, 2010 07:57

Tags: applications, databases, mysql, open source, oracle, software

Oracle set to launch MySQL 5.5 GA release

Oracle is expected to launch the general-availability version of MySQL 5.5 during a webcast event on Wednesday.

By Chris Kanaracus | 13 December, 2010 06:45

Tags: applications, business issues, databases, mysql, open source, oracle, software

Oracle defends MySQL support pricing changes

Oracle may have raised the price of an entry-level support contract for its MySQL database, but customers are going to get a lot more than they did from former owner Sun Microsystems, according to an official blog post Wednesday.

By Chris Kanaracus | 12 November, 2010 05:00

Tags: applications, business issues, databases, mysql, open source, oracle, software, Sun Microsystems

CA relinquishes last stake in Ingres

CA Technologies has sold off its remaining 20 percent stake in Ingres to venture capital firm Garnett & Helfrich Capital, which is now the open-source database company's sole owner.

By Chris Kanaracus | 10 November, 2010 06:24

Tags: applications, business issues, CA Technologies, databases, ingres, Investments, open source, software

Oracle raises cost of low-end MySQL support

Oracle has apparently raised the price of an entry-level MySQL subscription significantly.

By Chris Kanaracus | 04 November, 2010 07:50

Tags: applications, business issues, databases, Mergers / acquisitions, mysql, open source, oracle, software, Sun Microsystems

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