Following major announcements from Amazon Web Services in recent weeks around data warehousing and management, Rackspace today announced new capabilities for database hosting and management. A NoSQL database as a service (DBaaS) from a ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle is planning to unveil new migration tools that help customers port applications written for SAP's Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise product over to Oracle's own flagship database and Exadata database machine, ...
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Computerworld - Fred Abounader, a performance systems engineer at chip maker AMD, recently deployed a 6TB all-NAND flash storage array into a virtual server test environment. The result, he said, was astounding. In AMD's virtualization ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle database customers running version 11g Release 1 have until the end of this month to upgrade, or else face increased annual maintenance fees. The vendor provides five years of Premier Support after a new product ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made it possible to connect to its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service using static routing, while also allowing enterprises to run SQL Server within the private cloud, the company said on Thursday. Using a ...
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SAP laid out broad details of a new cloud-based application development platform powered by the HANA in-memory database during the Tech Ed conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday. One component of the strategy, NetWeaver Cloud, is generally ...
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New version of MySQL Migration Toolkit,enhanced with DB2-to-MySQL and MySQL-to-DB2 converters,has been released. MOSCOW,RUSSIA,November 15,2012/24-7PressRelease/--Intelligent Converters released new version of MySQL Migration ...
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IDG News Service-Some of SAP's software products are now certified for use with Oracle's Database Appliance,which is essentially a streamlined version of its Exadata machine aimed at small and medium-size businesses. All SAP products ...
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German office supplies manufacturer Sigel GmbH used storage virtualisation to improve the performance of its VMware-based virtual servers and its Oracle database systems. Sigel also cut costs with its storage hypervisor technology. ...
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IDG News Service-In a bid to help large businesses create and manage snapshots of application data across sprawling enterprise environments,CommVault is releasing the snapshot component of its Simpana suite as a standalone product. The ...
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The European Organisation for Nuclear Research–better known as CERN and home of the Large Hadron Collider–has implemented clustered NAS in its 2PB estate of NetApp filers. The organisation switched on clustered NAS ...
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Companies, including large multinationals that virtualise Oracle databases using VMware products, are finding it challenging to remain compliant with Oracle's complex licensing policies. Such lack of compliance is costing them millions in ...
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison revealed this week at the OpenWorld conference that the next version of the company's flagship database,Oracle 12c,would feature a radical new architecture called pluggable databases. Pluggable databases will ...
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