Apple's database software subsidiary FileMaker has revamped its FileMaker Technical Network developer support program as FileMaker Community.
Rackspace's ObjectRocket - MongoDB as a service - is now available to the company's Australian customers.
Oracle has announced SQL access to data stored in an Oracle Big Data Appliance, initially from Exadata systems, but over time from other models in its Engineered Systems family and then from Oracle Database generally.
IBM maintains that newly released cloud-capabilities and services for its SoftLayer clients will accelerate cloud adoption by securing vital company assets and maintaining businesses operations, “even in the event of a disaster”.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison used his keynote address at Oracle Open World 2013 to make three major announcements, most notably a new option for Oracle Database 12c that provides massive performance improvements for analytics and reporting,
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.
Cloud hosting provider Rackspace has acquired database-as-a-service provider ObjectRocket.
It is a truism that what gets measured gets improved. One important function of the CIO is to ensure strategic information is delivered to executive management as a basis for steering the company. Here is a simple C# app to easily publish results of SQL queries as Excel spreadsheets.
Quest Software - now a Dell subsidiary - is famous for its database tools such as Toad for Oracle. The newly released Toad for Oracle 11.6 makes it easier for database administrators to work remotely.
Actian has added geospatial support to a new edition of its Ingres database.
100,000 copies of FileMaker Go 12 were downloaded during the first week of availability.
Actian is getting together with Lenovo to deliver an appliance suited to analysing large amounts of data.
As Actian (formerly Ingres) prepares to start showing off Action Apps to its Australian customers, the company's VectorWise database recently set a new TPC-H benchmark.
Microsoft has released the latest version of its enterprise database platform SQL Server 2012 to manufacturers. We take a look at what's new in the software and Microsoft's approach to enterprise systems.
Today's economy requires IT management to justify the cost of every purchase while ensuring their teams are more productive, agile and versatile than ever before. These pressures filter down to the individual developer, administrator and analyst, who often have to do the work of two or three people. And in the database world, a big data and cloud revolution is changing the way database professionals develop access, manage, and analyse data. Amidst this sea of change, the majority of Fortune 500 companies and more than two million individual database professionals continue to rely on one tool as they have for nearly 15 years.
Database vendor Ingres is renaming itself Actian. While its DBMS activity continues, the company is looking to a new market for apps driven by massive databases.
International Business Intelligence (BI) software vendor, Yellowfin, and Ingres Corporation, pioneers of the record-breaking analytical database, VectorWise, will host a series of joint Webinars, Wednesday 13 July Australian EST.
Database vendor Ingres and business intelligence specialist Yellowfin have teamed up for joint sales of VectorWise and Yellowfin as a complete, fast and easy to use enterprise reporting and analytics system.
Queplix CTO Steve Yaskin comments on new technology developments impacting data virtualization business - https://bit.ly/hfGvsi
Ingres has set a new record on a Transaction Processing Performance Council benchmark, achieving a massive improvement on the previous record on the same hardware.
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