Database Management News & Articles

While there is a general consensus about the need to manage the explosion of data across an enterprise, there are many different views as to how that should happen. Texas-based Calpont has upgraded its InfiniDB to v2.0 to now include fast data loading and improved query response times.

Although influenced by multiple Enterprise CMS passion attacks, in its heart, EMC (news, site) has always been a data storage/management company. Having experience with managing large content/case/records assets in the enterprise is part of the attraction.

With the upcoming acquisition of a privately-held, data warehousing company Greenplum, it's becoming even clearer where EMC's true heart desires lie -- on the intersection of big data computing and business analytics.

Ingres Corporation, a provider of open source database management, released the Ingres Icebreaker Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Appliance.

The new appliance (we'll get to what it is exactly in just a moment) is powered by Alfresco and aims to lower the total cost of ECM ownership. Will the customers respond to this new offering in the saturated ECM market and with tight IT budgets?

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.

So an integrated marketing platform provider went out and bought a web content management company. That was story several months ago for Alterian and Mediasurface. But now that it’s all said and done, what’s the plan going forward? Alterian lays out their new platform strategy.