ZDNet UK Databases Toolkit

SAP: Days of the database are numbered

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (David Binning) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:38:02 +0000

The demand for cloud computing and faster access to data will lead to a future where companies don't need a database, says a top SAP executive

Open-source tools wrest control of personal data

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Cath Everett) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:08:02 +0000

Adriana Lukas explains how the open-source Mine project will help people regain control of data held about them on the web

MoD report calls for better information management

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Kable) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:29:02 +0000

A Ministry of Defence report says the armed forces need to 'significantly improve' their use of information

Four steps for sharpening up data management

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Cath Everett) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:02:02 +0000

The scale of the task stops many firms imposing order on their data, but a few simple steps could help start the process

BIS moves closer to web rationalisation

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Kable) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:22:02 +0000

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills signs a deal with Eduserv for the Sitecore CMS on an unlimited user licence

BakBone moves into data-archiving software

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Manek Dubash) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:54:01 +0000

The company's NetVault: Archive, a software only-distributed system, is targeted at the growth of unstructured data

Amazon puts SQL in the cloud

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Rupert Goodwins) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:14:01 +0000

The company has made MySQL available on demand, going head-to-head with Microsoft's Azure

BMC Software acquires Tideway Systems

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:19:10 +0100

Texas-based BMC Software announced on Monday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire start up IT discovery solutions provider Tideway Systems. In a statement on Monday, BMC said that...

Oracle taps into Sun tech for faster Exadata

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Toby Wolpe) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:01:02 +0100

The database giant has used Sun FlashFire technology in a version of the data-warehousing appliance

Oracle sends out update to Database 11g

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Larry Dignan) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:42:01 +0100

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 focuses on consolidating hardware and virtualisation, and arrives two years after the database software was originally launched

Microsoft rolls out SQL Azure Database preview

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (David Meyer) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:22:01 +0100

The database component of Microsoft's cloud platform is now available as a free trial until the service goes fully live in November

Massive but Agile: next-gen databases prepare for battle

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:38:05 +0100

My Economics teacher once told me that if I wanted a job for life, then I should be an undertaker. Demand is always assured, he said. If there were a single database guru out there to deliver the...

MoJ issues digital-preservation code of practice

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Kable) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:39:02 +0100

The Ministry of Justice is recommending that public bodies do more to preserve digital records, and is extending the Freedom of Information Act to more organisations

Oracle hikes some prices by up to 40pc

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:15:39 +0100

Oracle has increased the US prices of some of its licences by up to 40 percent, according to reports. The hikes affect a database configuration management pack and processor licences for...

BMC management tool rides Amazon cloud

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Sally Whittle) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:15:02 +0100

The new BSM platform aims to let companies manage resources from internal datacentres and Amazon's EC2 cloud services via a single console

Symantec backup gets client dedupe

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Manek Dubash) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:13:01 +0100

The next update of NetBackup will add deduplication at the client, which should allow users to cut both storage and network bandwidth needs, according to Symantec

NoSQL and the monster mutation

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:45:48 +0100

Over in San Francisco yesterday, the brand-new NoSQL movement held its first public meeting. 150 bitwranglers from outfits large and small absorbed ten presentations about how to handle data in the...

Lotus Symphony gets some OOXML support

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Matthew Broersma) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:20:02 +0100

IBM has said it believes support for importing documents in Microsoft's office format could help convince large organisations to drop Office altogether

Sitecore Online Marketing Suite

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Manek Dubash) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:24:02 +0100

Sitecore has built a companion suite for its content management system that integrates web analytics, profiling, campaign management, segmentation and personalisation.

Group aims to keep MySQL healthy

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (David Meyer) — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:09:02 +0100

One of MySQL's co-founders has started up a consortium to act as an industry hub for MariaDB, his enterprise-grade branch of MySQL, in the wake of Oracle's takeover of Sun

IBM launches System S stream computing

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Matthew Broersma) — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:39:02 +0100

System S is a business analytics tool, built following five years of research into the real-time analysis of large amounts of unstructured business or scientific data

Data-sharing failures cause real loss of trust

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (David Clarke) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:48:01 +0100

The real threats to increased data sharing by government departments are not legal impediments, but poor information management, says David Clarke

IBM's latest DB2 woos Oracle customers

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Colin Barker) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:21:02 +0100

The company has released new versions of its DB2 database and InfoSphere Warehouse with an eye to picking up Oracle customers

No welcome for Oracle from Ingres

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:21:37 +0100

Database supplier Ingres, an Oracle competitor, has not exactly welcomed the news that its rival has just grown even bigger with the acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Ingres is, like MySQL, an open...

Microsoft details changes to SQL Data Services

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Colin Barker) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:37:01 +0000

The company's development team reveals more details of the fully hosted service option for SQL Data Services, first announced last month

Microsoft rethinks SQL Server strategy

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:25:32 +0000

Microsoft is having a re-think about its SQL Server strategy and in particular about what it wants to do with SQL Data Services. Part of the companys Azure services platform, SQL Data Services,...

Accenture launches mobile-service framework

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Colin Barker) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:42:01 +0000

Enterprise mobile services and cloud connectivity are on the menu for Accenture customers

ZManda puts SME backup in the cloud

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:23:00 +0000

ZManda on Monday launched cloud computing-based backup and recovery software for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). ZMands Cloud Backup (ZCB) is designed to be easy to configure and...

Amazon lowers cloud costs

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:25:33 +0000

From the first of February users of Amazons CloudFront will find the cost of the cloud computing application has dropped. On Friday, Amazon said that the cost of transferring data around the...

The rise of the column-based database

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:39:44 +0000

I always get the feeling that I need to tread carefully when talking about the relationship between developers and DBAs and that there might be some sense of hostility between the two based upon...

We launched!

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:10:23 +0000

You are now looking at the all-new ZDNet UK, and although the paint may be a bit wet in places, we think it's a massive improvement on what went before. We'll touch up any bits we missed in the...