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Microsoft Drops Virtualization Fees For SQL Server 2008, Other Apps
August 19, 2008 by Paul McDougall
The fee-elimination program applies to 41 Microsoft server applications, including certain editions of SQL Server 2008, Exchange Server 2007, Dynamics CRM 4.0, and SharePoint Server 2007.

Jaspersoft Releases iReport For NetBeans
August 18, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
iReport is being offered as a plug-in for the integrated development environment, which is used to build Java desktop applications.

BI Tools Can Slice And Dice Data Without A Data Warehouse
August 12, 2008 by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
A medical center is using DataWatch's Web-based Monarch BI Server to analyze patient data from lab reports and other sources to improve care.

XAware Upgrades Open Source Integration Tools
August 11, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
Enhancements include better text processing and support for REST operation creation and testing.

How To Get A Data Quality Initiative Off The Ground
August 7, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
Overly ambitious data-quality professionals get shot down because trusted data will not directly increase revenue, reduce costs or improve operational efficiencies, key criteria for getting funding approved, Forrester Research says.

SQL Server 2008 Available For Free Public Trial
August 7, 2008 by Paul McDougall
Users looking to try out Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 can download a fully functional copy free of charge and run it for up to 180 days.

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008
August 6, 2008 by J. Nicholas Hoover
The upgraded database includes improved data compression, better scalability, and easier management of concurrent workloads.

IBM Brings Cloud Computing To Earth With Massive New Data Centers
August 1, 2008 by Richard Martin
Big Blue plans to build a data center in North Carolina and open a "cloud computing center" in Tokyo at a cost of nearly $400 million.

Competitors React to the Microsoft-DatAllegro Deal
July 28, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Oracle stays quiet while Greenplum, Netezza and Teradata say data scalability alone won't satisfy customers.

Cast Iron Beefs Up Data Integration Appliance
July 28, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
The iA4000 is an upgrade and replacement of the iA3000 appliance. New data migration capabilities include data conversion and profiling tools to accelerate software-as-a-service use.

Microsoft Acquires DatAllegro to Scale Up SQL Server Deployments
July 24, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Deal validates tectonic shift in data warehousing, puts pressure on Oracle and independent appliance vendors.

Sybase Reports 15% Revenue Growth To Record Level
July 24, 2008 by Charles Babcock
Its pace of growth exceeded the 12.6% rate of growth for the database market as a whole during 2007 and most of its relational database competitors last year.

Amazon S3 Crash Raises Doubts Among Cloud Customers
July 21, 2008 by Thomas Claburn
The company's Simple Storage Service suffered a similar outage lasting about two hours in February, an incident that at the time led many to question its dependability.

Open Source Databases Often Adopted For New Apps
July 21, 2008 by Charles Babcock
Open source databases are being adopted for use with interactive Web apps, small portals, RFID applications, and other new workloads in the enterprise.

Kalido Extends Data Warehouse Support To More Microsoft Software
July 20, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
The additional support stems from the latest version of Kalido Universal Information Director, which makes it possible to get data from Kalido's data warehouse to Microsoft Office, PerformancePoint and SharePoint.

Sypherlink Upgrades Metadata Discovery, Mapping Tool
July 20, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
Harvester 5.0 has better heuristics matching capabilities, tighter integration with the extract, transform and load process; and a graphical user interface with point-and-click navigation.

Microsoft's SQL Server Growth Slows But Still Beats Rivals
July 11, 2008 by Charles Babcock
The total database market grew at a rate of 12.6% in 2007 and hit $18.8 billion, compared with $16.7 billion the year before, says IDC.

Cast Iron Offers Integration Appliance For NetSuite
June 30, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
NetSuite is the latest software-as-a-service vendor supported by Cast Iron integration appliances, which are billed as supporting application integration through configuration rather than coding.

Talend Unveils Open Source Data Profiler
June 27, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
Open Profiler helps IT teams assess data to identify potential problems before beginning projects such as data integration or application development.

Sun Bundles MySQL Database, GlassFish App Server
June 27, 2008 by Charles Babcock
By charging only $65,000 per year, Sun hopes to challenge traditional commercial software providers that charge large license fees and maintenance costs.

HP-Oracle Warehouse Marks Another Win for Appliances
June 25, 2008 by Doug Henschen
HP BladeSystem bundle targets 1-4 terabyte market sweet spot. HP claims speed and energy efficiency advantages over Dell's alternative.

HP Tailors BladeSystem To Oracle Data Warehouse
June 24, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
The system provides the essential elements of a data warehouse infrastructure, including computing power, storage, interconnect, and management.

Kimball University: Microsoft SQL Server Comes of Age for Data Warehousing
June 23, 2008 by Warren Thornthwaite
With new compression, partitioning and star schema optimization features, Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 is catching up with the state of the industry in data warehousing. Here's why these three capabilities are crucial for scalability and performance on any platform.

Guide To Cloud Computing
June 21, 2008 by Richard Martin J. Nicholas Hoover
The market is getting crowded with Web-based software and storage offerings. Here's what you need to know about the cloud computing strategies of Amazon, Google, Salesforce, and five other leading vendors.

Data Warehouse Alternatives Make a Hit in India and Europe
June 20, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Telco Reliance scales with DW appliances. Web marketer TradeDoubler loads and queries faster, cuts cost with a column-store database.

Teradata Updates Warehouse Miner
June 15, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
The upgrade includes a new feature that enables business users to drag and drop analytic functions from an index and run them against a data warehouse to discover patterns in customer, financial and operational data.

IBM DB2's 25th Anniversary: Birth Of An Accidental Empire
June 10, 2008 by Charles Babcock
At first, relational database was a highly mocked product, halting in its performance compared to the programmed-path systems. Now it represents an $18.6 billion a year market.

Q&A: Amazon on Enterprise Computing in the Cloud
June 9, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Speaking at this week's Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, Amazon's Adam Selipsky says enterprises are already embracing the agility and economies of scale of cloud computing.

Comply Or Die: Data Disposition Must Be A Priority
June 7, 2008 by Andrew Conry-Murray
IT groups rethinking the "save everything forever" approach find deletion and retention policies and tools must be razor sharp to cut through a morass of regulations.

Delta Dental Signs Up For Open Source Business Intelligence Software
June 5, 2008 by Mary Hayes Weier
The dental benefits provider chose Pentaho's open source BI after comparing it with SAP Business Objects.

Q&A With Gartner's Don Feinberg on Database as a Service and Cloud DBs
May 23, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and Sun are now fueling the growing fire around the database-as-a-service and cloud database markets, but what's the difference between these offerings and what's the appeal? Database guru Don Feinberg defines terms and raises important questions about reliability and security.

Yahoo Claims Record With Petabyte Database
May 21, 2008 by Thomas Claburn
Yahoo claims it has the largest SQL database in a production environment and that it will grow larger.

Startup Aster Offers Software For Clustering Commodity Servers
May 20, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
Aster says its technology can turn commodity servers into a massively parallel processing relational database for analytics.

HP Upgrades Database Archiving Software
May 19, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
HP Database Archiving has a new designer module that improves the software's ability to model application transactions, such as purchase orders and sales orders, and to apply business rules and corporate retention policies.

Sybase Unveils Analytic Appliance
May 19, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
The new product combines the Sybase IQ database with IBM's System P hardware and MicroStrategy business intelligence software.

Data Deduplication: More Than Just A Feature
May 16, 2008 by George Crump
The major storage manufacturers have struggled to put together viable strategies for data reduction.

HP Launches 'Extreme' Storage System
May 5, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
Hewlett-Packard's StorageWorks 9100 Extreme is designed for Web companies and other organizations that need multipetabytes of data storarge.

SAS Applies Business Intelligence To Environmental Performance
May 3, 2008 by Mary Hayes Weier
Lots of companies say they're green. Now they can prove it with this new brand of performance management software.

IBM Informix Upgrade Enhances Clustering, Database Management
April 30, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Princeton Softech "Optim" tools round out IDS 11.5 management suite. Big Blue claims gains in database marketshare.

In Database Market, Oracle Gets Bigger, Others Hang On
April 25, 2008 by Charles Babcock
Microsoft was the only member of the big three to grow at a rate under the market average, 11.2%, for revenue of $3.4 billion and an 18.3% market share, IDC said.

Microsoft Hires Database Pioneer, Opens Database Development Lab
April 23, 2008 by J. Nicholas Hoover
Parallel database pioneer David DeWitt will join Microsoft as its newest technical fellow and open an advanced development laboratory in Madison, Wis.

Teradata Unveils Entry- To Enterprise-Level Data Warehouse Appliances
April 21, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
The product line starts with the Teradata 550 SMP aimed at departmental use and priced at $67,000 per terabyte. The remaining two models include the Teradata 2500, an entry-level system priced at $125,000 per terabyte; and the enterprise-level 5500, which starts at $200,000 per terabyte.

Cloud Computing: Microsoft Joins Emerging Database-as-a-Service Market
April 21, 2008 by Rajan Chandras
SQL Server Data Services is a late-but-promising entrant in an emerging market that promises to be a boon to small and midsized firms looking to reach distributed groups of employees, partners or customers while controlling costs.

Mickos: Sun Has Expertise That MySQL Needs, Vice Versa
April 16, 2008 by Charles Babcock
Downloads of the open source database have increased by 10,000 per day since its recent acquisition by Sun.

IBM To Acquire Israeli Storage Firm FilesX
April 10, 2008 by Paul McDougall
FilesX's software provides continuous data protection for applications and servers as well as supporting business users in remote offices.

Mickos, As New Sun Exec: Linux Will Stay In LAMP
April 10, 2008 by Charles Babcock
The former CEO of MySQL is confident that the database technology will have continued commitment to customers and open source developers inside of Sun.

Microsoft Says OOXML Vote Was Fair
April 7, 2008 by Paul McDougall
The Office Open XML file format derived from Microsoft Office 2007 was ratified as an ISO standard by 61 countries, including the U.S., the UK, Germany, and Japan.

World's Hottest Tech Markets Voted Against Microsoft OOXML
April 3, 2008 by Paul McDougall
Brazil, India, and China, which together count for more than a third of the world's population, all voted against Office Open XML last week.

Microsoft Office Format Wins ISO Nod Despite Protests
April 2, 2008 by Paul McDougall
ISO's approval of OOXML as an open standard comes amid widespread allegations that Microsoft improperly tried to influence voting.

SAP Promotes Leo Apotheker To Co-CEO
April 2, 2008 by Mary Hayes Weier
The board also appointed Bill McDermott, president of SAP Americas, plus two additional corporate officers, Erwin Gunst and Jim Hagemann Snabe, to its executive board.