GUEST OPINION: Information is undoubtedly one of the most important resources a business can have. As such, business data protection should always be a priority – since there are plenty of different ways for sensitive data to be either damaged or compromised.
Databricks has announced a raft of new and updated products, including the adoption of AI in various areas, new data federation capabilities, and a preview version of Delta Lake 3.0.
Open source cloud data platform Aiven has launched free plans for its open source database services, Aiven for PostgreSQL, Aiven for MySQL, and Aiven for Redis. The plans are available to anyone.
Data streaming platform operator Confluent has appointed Kamal Brar to the role of senior vice president for the APAC region.
Cloud computing company OVHcloud now offers six database-as-a-service solutions in collaboration with European software company Aiven.
The Oracle MySQL Autopilot delivers nine new automations powered by machine learning. Oracle says MySQL HeatWave now has performance and scalability that can deliver 35x better price/performance compared to Snowflake and 13x better than Amazon Redshift with Aqua on industry-standard TPC-H benchmarks.
Cloud data management vendor Rubrik has appointed Kamal Brar as Vice President of Asia Pacific and Japan.
MariaDB Corporation, the database company born as a result of forking the well-known open-source MySQL database, has opened new US headquarters in Redwood City, California, indicating that it is growing in prominence.
MariaDB Corporation, the company which came to life as a result of forking the open source MySQL database before it was taken over by Oracle, has released its Enterprise Server 10.4 codenamed Restful Nights as it claims to provide peace of mind to business users.
MariaDB Corporation, the database company born as a result of forking the well-known open-source MySQL database, has announced it will release MariaDB Enterprise Server, a database engineered for greater reliability and stability.
A Queensland-based provider of services around MySQL, MariaDB and related services has been bought by Catalyst IT Australia.
Open source development tools provider DRUD Tech has released DDEV Community, a tool that can automate workflows and Web application development with content management systems like Drupal and WordPress.
The end of Solaris, the UNIX-like operating system developed by Sun Microsystems, is nigh, with the core talent associated with the OS and its SPARC hardware being laid off by Oracle on Friday.
The Debian GNU/Linux Project has released version 9 of its Linux distribution, named Stretch, which will be supported for the next five years.
MariaDB Corporation, the database company born as a result of forking the well-known open-source MySQL database, has announced the release of MariaDB TX 2.0, what it describes as the "most functionally complete, open source transactional database solution for modern application development".
Oracle appears to have abandoned plans for Solaris 12, with no indication in its January roadmap of when this version will emerge.
MariaDB Corporation, the database company born as a result of forking the well-known open-source MySQL database, has announced the release of MariaDB ColumnStore 1.0, a columnar storage engine.
MariaDB Corporation, the database company born as a result of forking the well-known open-source MySQL database, has released a new version of its MaxScale proxy software.
Oracle executive chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison took a blowtorch to Amazon Web Services at Oracle Open World 2016 today.
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