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Victorian startup agency LaunchVic has unveiled a free, open-source database for Victorian start-ups aimed at driving investment and to showcase the State’s talent.

As usual, Microsoft is using Build, its annual event for developers, to make multiple announcements. Here are some of the highlights.

MariaDB says its new SkySQ is the first database-as-a-service (DBaaS) to unlock the full power of MariaDB Platform for transactions, analytics or both, optimised with a cloud-native architecture.

A security researcher has discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster containing 976 million records belonging to Honda North America, and accessible to anyone who has a Web browser.

Global software vendor Microsoft is well-known for its SQL Server database. Yet, the Redmond giant says its other database, Azure Cosmos DB, guarantees single-digit-millisecond reads and writes on planet-scale databases with a minimum of fuss.

Global software house Microsoft is making big data the focus of SQL Server 2019, set for release later this year. A key part is data virtualisation, eliminating complex ETL processes. 

The personal details of more than 800,000 blood donors have leaked online in Singapore, with a vendor, Secur Solutions Group, having left an unsecured database on the Web.

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.

Hackers gained access to the database of a New South Wales-based company that sends free weather warnings on the weekend, through the use of stolen credentials and sent bogus alerts to some users of the system.

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".

The Snowflake data warehouse is now generally available on Azure.

Cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake says the future of data warehousing is data sharing between companies without moving the data, and its architecture is positioned to bring this future to companies now.

Back-up and disaster recovery company Veeam claims it exposed only 4.5 million email records in an Amazon-hosted IP, not 445 million as a researcher had claimed.

By Greg Wyman, VP Asia Pacific, ioFABRIC

Storage takes a substantial percentage of total IT budget, yet storage vendors tell their customers that it needs to be replaced every three to five years. Why?

The Australian car-sharing firm GoGet says its databases were hacked last June and a suspect, a man from the suburb of Penrose in Illawarra, NSW, has been arrested in connection with the hack.

David Bowie will be analytics company SAS’ vice-president Australia and New Zealand for a year come January 2018. The year has been characterised by growth and customer success, underpinned by the continued commitment to being a terrific place to work.

Global public cloud host AWS’ chief executive Andy Jassy says AWS can provide a database that won’t abuse you, hitting out at Oracle’s Larry Ellison.

Enterprise database vendor Oracle today announced Oracle 18C, claiming it is the world's first and only autonomous database.

UK-based enterprise software company Micro Focus has released its analytics platform Vertica 9 which includes extended in-database machine learning capabilities.

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".