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• Oracle-HP trial will trace an ill-fated partnership

  By Stephen Lawson | 01 June, 2012 20:57

  After Oracle and Hewlett-Packard enjoyed a long and fruitful partnership in enterprise IT, it's hard to find anything that hasn't gone wrong with their relationship over the past two years.

• Livermore set to be first witness in HP-Oracle trial

  By Stephen Lawson | 01 June, 2012 02:04

  Ann Livermore, a member of Hewlett-Packard's board of directors and a longtime head of the company's enterprise business, will be the first witness called when a court in San Jose, California, hears HP's lawsuit against Oracle for ending future development on the Itanium platform.

• Ellison: Next version of Oracle database set for December or January release

  By Chris Kanaracus | 31 May, 2012 20:59

  The next version of Oracle's database will be released in either December or January, CEO Larry Ellison said during an onstage interview at the AllThingsD conference in London.

• Oracle prepares to enter PaaS wars

  By Chris Kanaracus | 29 May, 2012 20:59

  Oracle may lay out how it plans to become a player in the burgeoning PaaS (platform as a service) market next week during a webcast event featuring CEO Larry Ellison and co-president Mark Hurd.

• SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight

  By Chris Kanaracus | 22 May, 2012 14:54

  Due to incorrect information provided by the vendor, the story "SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight," posted to the wire on May 16, contained an improper characterization of the hardware used in a database cluster set up by SAP.

• Funds Pour Into Big-Data Vendors

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 21 May, 2012 20:11

  Investors have taken note of the surging enterprise demand for tools that can manipulate and analyze massive volumes of structured and unstructured data.

• Yahoo's Genome highlights hosted big data analytics trend

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 21 May, 2012 20:11

  Yahoo has joined a growing list of companies offering big data analytics as a service with its Genome offering this week.

• SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight

  By Chris Kanaracus | 17 May, 2012 00:23

  SAP seems to be betting its future on its HANA in-memory database, spotlighting the technology once again at the Sapphire conference in Orlando Wednesday, announcing a slew of new applications, partnerships and functional enhancements for the system.

• Salesforce.com's Heroku rolls out new cloud database options

  By Chris Kanaracus | 10 May, 2012 06:36

  Salesforce.com's Heroku division this week rolled out two entry-level tiers for its Postgres-based cloud database service, hoping to cater to applications with lower data-volume requirements as well as helping startup developers make an easier jump into production.

• Whiptail whips up modularly scalable all-flash storage array

  By Lucas Mearian | 09 May, 2012 02:51

  Solid-state storage array maker Whiptail today announced its first modular, scalable all-flash array with up to 72TB of capacity.

• Investors are pouring funds into big data

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 04 May, 2012 20:12

  Surging enterprise demand for tools that can manipulate and analyze massive volumes of structured and unstructured data has caught investor attention in a big way.

• SAP's Sikka fires back against Oracle's 'falsehoods' about HANA

  By Chris Kanaracus | 02 May, 2012 02:31

  SAP's technology chief has given a strong rebuttal to a recent presentation by an Oracle executive that was critical of SAP's HANA in-memory database, saying it is full of "falsehoods."

• Researcher misinterprets Oracle advisory, discloses unpatched database vulnerability

  By Lucian Constantin | 28 April, 2012 03:00

  Instructions on how to exploit an unpatched Oracle Database Server vulnerability in order to intercept the information exchanged between clients and databases were published by a security researcher who erroneously thought that the company had patched the flaw.

• Guide: How to build your first database with Microsoft Access

  By Helen Bradley | 24 April, 2012 23:29

  If you own a version of Microsoft Office that includes Access (Office Professional 2010 is the most current version), but you’ve never used it, you’re overlooking a powerful tool for organizing and analyzing business data. I’ll show you how to make the most of this relational database program.

• Users: Oracle Exadata's speed comes at a price

  By Chris Kanaracus | 25 April, 2012 03:33

  Few Oracle products in recent years have received as much hype as the Exadata database machine, with the vendor attempting to use it as a standard-bearer for a series of appliances that combine its software with storage, networking equipment and Sun servers.