The original maintainer of the xz Utils package, which was backdoored and almost distributed to production Linux systems, is yet to make any public comment about the incident, saying he first needs to understand the situation thoroughly.
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.
COMPANY NEWS: Aiven, the open source cloud data platform, today unveiled Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC), a way for companies to get the most out of their public cloud investments without losing control of their data.
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.
Kasten by Veeam's K10 V5.0 Kubernetes data management platform focuses on risk management strategy and streamlined CI/CD pipelines.
Cloud computing company OVHcloud now offers six database-as-a-service solutions in collaboration with European software company Aiven.
Instaclustr unveils its OpenSearch and OpenSearch DashboardsOpen source as-a-service company Instaclustr’s OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards on the Instaclustr Managed Platform are now available.
AWS's Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition – a service that allows applications written for Microsoft SQL Server to run directly on Amazon Aurora with little to no code changes – is now generally available.
A vulnerability in the Oracle WebLogic Server product of Oracle Fusion Middleware is one route through which Linux malware, observed by researchers at Trend Micro to be attacking Huawei Cloud, a relatively new cloud service provider, gain access to systems.
PostgreSQL joining Cassandra, Kafka, Redis, and other open source data technologies as a fully- and expertly-managed service part of Instaclustr’s growing platform
COMPANY NEWS by Instaclustr: Instaclustr, delivering reliability at scale through its fully managed platform for open source data technologies, today announced the addition of PostgreSQL to its Managed Platform, now available in public preview for Instaclustr customers. Managed PostgreSQL offers complete database management and optimization, along with comprehensive support and monitoring backed by Instaclustr’s team of PostgreSQL experts.
Extending its "breadth of expertise and geographical footprint" is Instaclustr, whose acquisition of the German and US operations of "credativ" delivers "expertise supporting PostgreSQL and other open source data technologies."
AWS has announced an unusually wide-ranging collection of new products and features.
Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels has claimed an article by CNBC about problems faced by the company's website on Prime Day, its made-up holiday in July meant to boost sales, had nothing to do with Amazon Web Services and the new database that Amazon is using. He described it as "silly and misleading".
Global retail giant Amazon experienced problems with its retail website on its Prime Day, the company's made-up holiday in July meant to boost sales, because of problems in migrating from Oracle's database to its own technology.
FileMaker 15, a new release of the application development system for OS X, Windows, iOS and the web, delivers new or improved features in the areas of mobility, automation and integration, ease of use, security, and performance.
Microsoft will make its SQL Server available for Linux by mid-2017, according to Scott Guthrie, the company's executive vice-president for its Cloud and Enterprise Group.
A variety of developer tools, frameworks and libraries exist to simplify the goal of supporting multiple types of device from a single codebase. One of the latest is Embarcadero FireDAC which supports a wide variety of databases and platforms.
Apple released version 2.1.1 of OS X Server last week, but has only just revealed the security content it delivers.
Squiz has revealed plans to add a Melbourne data centre to its cloud hosting service.
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