The creator of NoSQL database CouchDB says he is taking a job at Salesforce.com where he will work on a "quite ambitious" and "ridiculously cool" project related to the vendor's cloud infrastructure.
The notion of basing critical business work on an open source database might have been unthinkable just a couple years ago. But things are changing rapidly.
Network executives who want to resolve problems more quickly, manage the life cycle of software and hardware assets, and adopt IT governance best practices have probably talked about implementing a configuration management database.
A group of hackers claiming to be the reborn Lulz Security (LulzSec) took credit for an alleged compromise of MilitarySingles.com, a dating website for military personnel, and the leak of over 160,000 account details from its database.
Enterprise IT managers who want to resolve problems more quickly, manage the lifecycle of software and hardware assets, and adopt IT governance best practices have probably talked about implementing a configuration management database.
The U.K. Passport Service Monday launched its six month trial of biometric technology involving 10,000 volunteers, the same day that the U.K. government introduced its draft bill for potentially compulsory biometric identity cards and a central database of all of its citizens.
An improperly composed mass e-mail sent Thursday by open source database vendor MySQL erroneously included some 9,300 customer e-mail addresses in the body of the note, not the information about a series of summer support specials the company meant to announce.
Although Exadata is Oracle's most popular and mature "engineered system," some customers implementing the database machine are making mistakes that prevent them from getting the most performance out of the expensive product, according to a veteran of many Exadata projects.
BMC updated its configuration management database technology to help customers collect data from back-end systems and more easily pull data from distributed sources without a lot of manual effort.
Oracle could be gearing up to make an anticipated in-memory computing option for its flagship 12c database generally available after hyping it for the better part of a year, judging from an upcoming appearance by CEO Larry Ellison.
Two years ago I wrote a column called “IT Tribes?” that looked at the tribal nature of skill groups within IT - such as network specialists, database specialists, systems management specialists, app management specialists, and so forth. My premise was that these not only represent different skill groups, but also miniature cultures, each with its own superstitions about the other.
Consolidating disparate databases for easier management and moving to Linux to save money are among the top issues for Oracle database users, according to a recent survey of members of the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG).
Ingres Corp. plans to release a software appliance combining its database software with the Linux operating system later this year. The combined software will function as "an integrated maintenance unit," lessening the amount of integration work users have to engage in, according to Ingres Chief Technology Officer Dave Dargo.
A number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace, where they will continue their efforts, developer Jay Pipes wrote in a blog post Monday.
MySQL has secured $18.5 million in its latest round of venture capital funding, the open source database vendor announced Monday. The company plans to spend the money on new product development and expanding its sales and marketing operations. The investors include the venture capital arms of Intel and enterprise applications vendor SAP.
Microsoft has partnered with supply-chain software vendor ViaTrace and a nonprofit livestock producers group to launch a database intended to track diseased animals in the U.S. and reduce consumer fears.
Our Microsoft Access database is growing rapidly and getting harder to share effectively. Our IT team said we can use table space in a central MySQL-DB database. Can we still use Access at the desktop to work with data in a MySQL database?
Microsoft has added reporting capabilities to its SQL Server 2000 database, rounding out its business intelligence platform with a feature long sought by some of its customers.
Cash machines froze. Airlines and hospitals dusted off paper forms to schedule reservations and track patients. This was the scene on Jan. 25, 2003, shortly after the Slammer worm appeared and quickly began spreading around the world, flooding computer networks with worm-generated traffic and knocking vital database servers offline.
SAP's business is gradually shifting to the SaaS (software as a service) model while sales of its Hana in-memory database platform continue to grow quickly, according to preliminary fourth-quarter and year-end results the company released Friday.