Database News & Articles

Organizations and enterprises that bank on Amazon S3 services for their cloud storage needs might find themselves paying up to 13.5% less starting this February, as Amazon announces price cuts for S3, promising a "significant reduction" in storage costs.

While there is much research to chronicle how chaotic the management of information is in the enterprise at the moment, there is little enough in way of practical advice, or even tools, to suggest a way to tame unruly content. However, with Project Barcelona, Microsoft aims to provide an information crawler that will go into your network and map your dataflows and metadata.

Compliance and security are in the spotlight this week with McAfee buying database security vendor Sentrigo and news that healthcare compliance budgets are growing. There is also a new beta program to test compliance products for Microsoft’s Lync, while new research shows the global security budget rising to almost US$28 billion.

Information archiving does not consist only of storing data, but rather more powerful data management, which includes search, retrieval and analysis. MessageSolution's (news, site) latest SaaS release features advanced management functionality for Lotus Domino Application-based environments, as well as for other systems.

A few months ago, we’ve pondered the future of MySQL post the Oracle/Sun acquisition. Our verdict was: the MySQL market was where it was getting hot, with MySQL caught in crossfire.

The MySQL kitchen just got even hotter with more cooks joining. Meet SkySQL – a company built by the original, pre-Sun, pre-Oracle MySQL family of veterans.

Solutions provider Pagos offers a way for companies reliant on their old spreadsheets to kick them into the modern web-based age.

While there have been a number of financial results releases over the past couple of weeks, one of the more interesting is from SAP (news, site),  not only because its software business is often used as a market indicator, but also because of the recent closure of the massive Sybase deal.

The acquisition of Sybase (news, site) by SAP (news, site) which was first announced in May, has passed the final hurdle after the European Commission gave it regulatory approval on Tuesday evening.

With the deadline for the deal fast approaching, the German software giant extended its offer deadline for its US$ 5.8 billion cash offer for Sybase shares pending approval. With EU approval now in the bag, the deal is due to finally close next Monday.

In a move that is likely to cause Oracle (news, site) some discomfort, SAP (news, site) has announced that it has agreed to acquire Sybase for US$ 5.8 billion and in doing so extend its reach into the mobile business application market.

After last week’s IOUG conference and concerns expressed by delegates as to how Oracle (news, site)  would integrate Sun Microsystems, Oracle has announced the release of Enterprise Manager (EM) 11g, which will go some of the way to doing that.

This year’s IOUG COLLABORATE conference was always going to be about Sun and what Oracle (news, site) was going to do with it. Over the course of the four days they’ve been doing all they can to reassure customers that it’s really a good thing.

The Mobile World Congress in Spain has only just opened and already news is just busting to get out. Oracle (news, site), for example, has just announced the release of its upgraded Database Lite, a solution that enables the deployment, development and management of applications for mobile and embedded environments.

The recently announced acquisition of Guardium by IBM (news, site) which is to be integrated into the Information Management Software portfolio, is the latest extension of IBM's business analytics strategy with investment to date reckoned to be close to US $12 billion.

SQL Anywhere is a simple, powerful database with some interesting features. It has a small footprint, is self-managed and fully functional, and it provides many of the features of an enterprise database but can run on commodity hardware with a minimal amount of administration.

In addition, SQL Anywhere offers high performance, bi-directional synchronization that allows you to easily integrate your database application with your existing enterprise data center -- and this last point could just be key for your corporate blogging infrastructure.

In this technical article we show you how to modify a WordPress install such that it runs against a SQL Anywhere database.

Simplexo is on a mission to make real-time enterprise search simple, efficient and functional. Ingres is on a path to make open source databases manageable and supportable. Combine the two, and you have a super-fast and secure method of searching, accessing and managing database information.