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Tech giants chart research goals Power consumption, parallelism, and the rapidly-expanding world of mobile communications are among the leading areas of research and development currently being investigated within some of the IT world's largest companies. From big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtualFrom big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtual While many IT shops see virtualization as a question of adopting EMC's VMware on servers running Windows or Linux, Nationwide Insurance has adopted the technology for both x86-based and mainframe-hosted servers. After all, notes Buzz Woeckener, the company's zLinux/Unix server manager, virtualization was invented for mainframes.  September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT On the road to the virtual desktop Click ‘n’ run. It seems like such a simple concept. Surf up to a Web page, select the desired application from a list, and click. Voila! Microsoft Word appears on your desktop. Or Excel, or Adobe Photoshop… you name it. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Herd behavior demonstrated at Demo "Whatever happened to working alone?” September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Transplace beefs up hardware for a virtual world Managing transportation logistics is all about handling scale. As transportation management services firm Transplace added consumer goods companies such as Del Monte, Office Depot, Home Depot, Auto Zone, and DirecTV as customers, it needed to quickly bring server capacity online. Already planning a hardware refresh to support continued growth, CTO Vince Biddlecombe decided to bring in server virtualization at the same time so that he'd have a more scalable, flexible platform for that anticipated growth. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Stonebridge Bank averts a capacity crisis It's a dilemma faced by IT administrators everywhere. "We ran out of rack space, air conditioning capacity, and UPSes at the end of 2004, but we needed more servers," recalls George Rapp, senior vice president of IT for Stonebridge Bank, a regional institution in Pennsylvania. Getting more power in and more heat out was just not an option for the bank's datacenter, so Rapp consolidated multiple Unix servers into one box to reduce the physical footprint and delay the crisis. "But it got us only part of the way," he notes. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Oracle to buy network intelligence company Netsure Oracle Corp. has agreed to acquire Netsure Telecom Ltd., a provider of network intelligence and network data integrity software. September 4, 4:39 a.m. PDT Expert finds 'stupid' holes in Oracle 11g The latest version of Oracle's flagship database offers better security than earlier versions, but development errors have left vulnerabilities that attackers can use to steal data, an expert warned Monday. September 4, 4:36 a.m. PDT Update: SAP pushes for settlement talks with Oracle SAP AG has asked a U.S. court to order settlement talks in its legal battle with Oracle Corp., arguing that Oracle exaggerated its claims against the German software maker. Oracle said it opposed such talks and accused SAP of trying to "make this case go away." August 29, 4:27 a.m. PDT Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project Network security specialist Sourcefire announced Friday that it has acquired ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-malware project whose technologies are used in the products of a number of other vendors. August 17, 8:58 a.m. PDT Hospital undergoes wireless surgery For years, wireless technologies have only shown up in many U.S. hospitals in the form of rolling computers with Wi-Fi network access, but as evidenced at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital, times are changing. August 13, 2:37 p.m. PDT Oracle readies 11g pricing as Linux version debuts Oracle expects to release pricing information for 11g, the latest version of its enterprise database, on Tuesday, according to a company spokesperson. August 13, 12:46 p.m. PDT Novell buys endpoint security firm Senforce Novell announced on Monday that it has acquired Senforce Technologies, a provider of endpoint and network security tools, for an undisclosed sum. August 13, 9:40 a.m. PDT eBay imparts datacenter knowlege Imagine creating and managing a datacenter that handles 241 million registered users and sells a car a minute, an auto part every second, and a piece of diamond jewelry every two minutes. August 7, 2:24 p.m. PDT McAfee sets Rootkit Detective free On July 26, McAfee will begin offering a new application called Rootkit Detective, designed to detect and remove dangerous rootkit attacks. The software will also help end-users ward off the threats, as well as funnel new intelligence into the company's ongoing research operations. July 25, 1:12 p.m. PDT Thin clients: The time is now Consider your current computing situation. A few hardy souls reading this are squinting at their Blackberries, cell phones, or even iPhones and scrolling furiously from screen to screen. Most of you, though, are staring at a standard computer monitor, which is tethered to a conventional, full-featured PC -- of either the desktop or notebook flavor. July 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT Floral giant sends bouquet to EnterpriseDB EnterpriseDB has notched up international florist FTD Group as a customer in a vote of confidence for the young database company, which is trying to poach customers from Oracle with the promise of lower license fees and compatibility with Oracle applications. June 29, 11:17 a.m. PDT Talend applies SaaS to data integration Talend, an open source data integration software maker, unveiled a new service-based software product Monday, Talend On Demand, a service (SaaS) version of the company's Talend Open Studio product. June 18, 12:05 a.m. PDT Diagnosing health care IT A few weeks ago I stirred up a heap of contention with my column “RIP, electronic medical records?” about the battle at Kaiser Permanente over its pioneering health care digitization megaproject. The comments posted on the column by readers were like an instant replay of the finger pointing and armchair quarterbacking that’s apparently been going on inside that organization -- an interesting skirmish that showed the passion flaring on all sides of this issue. June 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT PayPal CTO: Security, mobility to spur growth PayPal's Chief Technology Officer, Scott Thompson, is a prime example of what might be called the "payments geek." June 13, 9:07 a.m. PDT EMC strikes first partnership with Indian outsourcer EMC Corp. will train more than 1,000 Wipro Ltd. staff in the use of its storage technologies as part of an alliance announced by the companies on Wednesday. June 13, 4:09 a.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Satinath Sarkar When Satinath Sarkar, CTO of Orion Technology talked to his friends 10 years ago about his specialty -- geographic information systems, or GIS -- he was met with quizzical looks. June 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT Wage inflation sinks offshoring for one startup The outsourcing and offshoring of software development work has become such an ingrained part of the technology industry in the United States that stories about it no longer rouse the public's interest as they did even a few years ago. That means the only way to gauge the growth of the phenomenon is by watching the bottom line of outsourcing giants such as India's Wipro, which recently reported a 41 percent jump in revenue in its latest fiscal year, and the heated debate in Washington over the number of H-1B high-tech visas that the federal government grants. May 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT Former Hitachi Data Systems chief to head up HP storage In its quest to re-energize its storage business, Hewlett-Packard has recruited the former president and CEO of storage rival Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). May 25, 2:22 p.m. PDT EMC adds de-duplication support to VMware Driving home a message that storage management must become more efficient to keep up with the unrelenting pace of data growth, EMC unveiled a host of new offerings, including a $1 million virtual tape library and upgraded de-duplication software, at its EMC World user conference in Orlando Monday. May 21, 2:36 p.m. PDT Cleversafe takes a slice out of storage Cleversafe's CEO Christopher Gladwin can't be accused of thinking small. "Our plan is to create a method for the world to store its data in the same way that the Internet is a method for the world to inter-network," is the way he puts it. May 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT Talend: Data integration for the masses! There's no question about it: Business intelligence is the holy grail of most CIOs and IT managers alike. After all, the idea behind BI is great: Pull data from all the nooks and crannies on your enterprise network into one system where it can be cleansed, correlated, and presented to executives for analysis via easy-to-use dashboards. May 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT 3Leaf Systems: Scale up by scaling out 3Leaf Systems co-founder and CEO Bob Quinn is a betting man. A veteran of startups specializing in event-driven architectures, network processing, and scalable SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) systems, Quinn is now wagering that hardware and software technology will turn heaps of AMD and Intel x64 servers into virtualized "warehouses" of compute, memory, and I/O resources. May 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft to ship next SQL Server in 2008 Microsoft is working on products that will support a massive growth of enterprise data and enable more people in enterprises and smaller businesses to access that data. May 9, 9:41 a.m. PDT HP blends Mercury, Openview software Did HP swallow Mercury, or did Mercury swallow HP? April 24, 7:55 a.m. PDT Microsoft targets SaaS program Microsoft Corp. has consolidated some of its efforts to help Web hosting companies offer software-as-a-service (SaaS) into a new program tailored for offerings to independent software vendors (ISVs). April 15, 9:42 p.m. PDT IBM targets India with Autonomic Computing Center India is not just home base for the largest number of outsourcing companies and high-tech workers assembled in a single country to accommodate America's thirst to move IT offshore, it has also become a huge market for IT unto itself. April 3, 2:27 p.m. PDT Oracle to buy in-memory data grid company Oracle plans to purchase Tangosol, a U.S. provider of in-memory data grid software, as a way to further extend its Fusion middleware and make it more appealing to users where rapid access to data is critical to their businesses. March 23, 6:59 a.m. PST DB administration simplification As organizations grow, their application and database scenarios can become more complex, and it becomes increasingly important for IT to standardize the deployments of these environments. Standardization not only reduces mistakes by ensuring that each deployment is done exactly the same way, but it decreases deployment time. Fortunately, solutions are available to assist with the process, such as GridApp’s database automation management solution, Clarity 3.5, aimed at companies running Oracle, Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters), and to a lesser degree, SQL Server. March 9, 3:00 a.m. PST IBM sets Cheetah into beta IBM Corp. has opened the public beta program for the next version of its Informix database server and announced plans for a bundled Linux package for smaller businesses. February 15, 6:34 a.m. PST Ingres strikes deal with Satyam Ingres Corp. Monday announced a global sales and marketing alliance with leading Indian consultancy and IT services company Satyam Computer Services Ltd. to attract more customers for its open-source database. February 12, 9:27 a.m. PST Virtualization gaining traction, Forrester report shows Going virtual is becoming a real answer for data center managers, according to a survey of large and small businesses. February 9, 1:08 p.m. PST Brocade drafts new catalog after McData deal Storage network equipment company Brocade Communications Systems has revised its catalog to add products and services from its just-completed acquisition of McData. January 29, 11:25 a.m. PST Oracle introduces Linux management software Oracle is making further inroads into the Linux space, this time in providing management tools for the open-source operating system, after its surprise October announcement of full global support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution. January 22, 8:20 a.m. PST HP to open research lab in Russia Hewlett-Packard is recruiting researchers to tackle fundamental problems in information management at a new laboratory in St. Petersburg, Russia. January 22, 6:49 a.m. PST U.S. financial transactions database delayed A proposed database that would keep track of hundreds of millions of money transfers in and out of the U.S. will not be ready by the original target date of late this year, according to a report issued by U.S. Department of the Treasury Wednesday. January 17, 1:21 p.m. PST HP continues to put software house in order In the midst of a companywide restructuring effort, Hewlett-Packard has taken the next step in an ongoing reorganization of its software operation. The vendor has established a new unit to bring together its business intelligence (BI) and information management expertise, which is currently spread out across the company. January 17, 4:24 a.m. PST Google, NASA plan major announcement Monday The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Ames Research Center plans a "major announcement involving Google" on Monday at 11:00 a.m. PST, it said Friday in a statement. December 18, 4:53 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Storage In EMC’s march on the enterprise NAS market, two big feet fell this year in the form of the company’s Rainfinity (global file system) and Infoscape (file classification) releases, which we took for early spins in EMC’s labs. The year also brought a smooth rev of Windows Storage Server, a swell mid-range SAN from Compellent, and a slick tape library from Spectra Logic. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST IBM India integrates separate data repositories IBM's India Research Laboratory has developed technology for retrieval and integration of information from both structured and unstructured data. December 6, 7:08 a.m. PST Health care and IT There is an undercurrent of change taking place in health care that technology is helping to bring about. November 28, 3:00 a.m. PST Dems score with better data Behind every big success these days, there's probably some darned good IT making it happen. That appears to be the case in the surprising electoral victory by the Democratic Party last week. November 15, 6:17 a.m. PST 2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards: Financial Services ABN Amro Sevrices (AASC) www.abnamro.com eGain Implementation, Customer Service Initiative Project Lead: Milton Santiago, Vice President, eBanking Project Description: AASC integrated eGain customer interaction system with an array of existing customer data and transactional systems so that service requests can be processed intelligently, and a complete view of the customer, including multichannel interactions, were kept in one place for more efficient customer service. The rollout potentially affected 4,000 wholesale banking clients, many of them senior professionals managing billions of dollars of transactions. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards: Unspecified Corrections Corporation of America www.correctionscorp.com Storage Virtualization Project Lead: Brad Wood, Senior Director of Enterprise Technology Operations Project Description: Storage virtualization project involving 100TB of data -- including inmate medical records, operational records, and e-mail -- across four Hitachi Data Systems storage arrays in two datacenters. A storage engineer can now manage the company’s hardware from a single console, using Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation and HDS HiCommand software. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST Allegheny County maps data to an array of services It takes more than technology to make some tech projects succeed. It requires diplomacy, dedication, perseverance, a willingness to embrace change, and the vision to come up with new ways to solve old problems. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards: Health Care Alamance Regional Medical Center (ARMC) www.armc.com Transforming Care With Computerized Physician Order Entry Project Lead: Terri Andrews, R.N. (MBA); Jesse Long, CIO Project Description: Implemented Sunrise Clinical Manager, an electronic health record solution that enables immediate, secure access to patient records, streamlines care processes, and provides sophisticated clinical documentation capabilities. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards: Pharmaceuticals McKesson www.mckesson.com RFID Tracking for Pharmaceuticals Project Lead: Paul Fowler,Vice President of E-commerce and Emerging Technologies Project Description: Implemented RFID to track the shipments of certain high-value Pfizer and GSK drugs flowing through its facilities. McKesson leveraged Blue Vector's network appliances to connect to RFID readers and other sensors. The system made it easy to quickly build a large widely distributed system that can be centrally managed and integrated with other systems. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST Springhill Medical Center emerges from the paper age For software developers, a crucial metric of success is the ability of their organization’s employees to get solid results from the applications the developers build, a practice known in the industry as “eating one’s own dog food.” Mark Kilborn, a regional CIO of Eclipsys, has spent the past three years helping Springhill Medical Center in Mobile, Ala., in its effort to automate emergency department procedures. He got to witness the results of his team’s project when, in early October, his 14-year-old son broke his wrist playing football. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST Oracle OpenWorld makes a splash It was crazy in San Francisco last week as a rumored 40,000 people swamped Oracle’s OpenWorld conference — the first time I’d ever seen a tech conference have the clout to shut down a whole city block and set up tents in the street. November 3, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft trims support for SQL Server 2005 Microsoft will only support SQL Server 2005 running Service Pack 2 on its upcoming Vista and Longhorn server operating systems, a move that an analyst said isn't surprising, but shouldn't have a dramatic effect on administrators. November 2, 9:48 a.m. PST Putting data to work for the bottom line Quick. When was the last time you remember being pleasantly surprised by how effectively a company used data about you to improve your customer experience? We all remember back in the ’90s the wow of going to an ATM and seeing our actual name on the screen for the first time. We all remember the first time we experienced collaborative filtering from an e-commerce site — “if you liked this, you may also like … .” October 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT AMD CEO envisions users, not vendors, in control of IT The head of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is predicting a seismic shift in the balance of power in both the chip industry and the world of IT as a whole, with influence shifting from vendors to users. The move could particularly benefit the health-care industry, which is still struggling to find ways to move forward with technology. October 23, 2:06 p.m. PDT Update: MySQL adds 'Merlin' database monitoring Open-source company MySQL AB confirmed recent reports that it will offer a database monitoring and advisory service as part of its MySQL Enterprise commercial subscription service later this year. October 17, 12:43 p.m. PDT Ingres extends presence to India Open-source database company Ingres Corp. is continuing its strategy to expand around the world, opening operations in India. October 17, 10:26 a.m. PDT Oracle buffing up image with partners Anyone who’s ever planned a wedding knows that it can be tough to keep all your friends happy. Now imagine you have 17,000 “friends.” Keeping them all happy could be downright impossible. October 16, 3:00 a.m. PDT Oracle: Partners key to our success Oracle will make a number of announcements later this month designed to buff up and add to its current tools and training for channel partners. October 10, 9:21 a.m. PDT IBM hones IT asset management IBM Corp. is introducing a range of new products and services, many based on technologies coming from recently acquired companies, aimed at helping businesses better manage and take advantage of their various software and hardware systems. October 6, 3:17 a.m. PDT MySQL monitoring service in the works Developers at open-source player MySQL are hard at work on a project code-named "Merlin", which is designed to make it easier for customers to manage and maintain the company's database software, a source close to MySQL says. September 29, 12:38 p.m. PDT Technology with no past To the extent that it’s possible, I’m declaring today the beginning of recorded history in information technology. On this day, the phrase “information technology,” abbreviated IT, came into being as shorthand for electronic devices that aid humans in storage and sharing of, analysis of, protection of, and access to significant amounts of digitized content. Content? That’s anything you’re capable of holding in your brain for even a nanosecond. IT is not a department or a group of people. It’s a smart phone. It’s a room full of SPARC servers. A telephone headset? A keyboard? I don’t know. They’re new terms. We’ll work that out as we go. I do know that if we didn’t have such things, information technology would be inaccessible. September 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT California doctors pioneer e-medical records With some 400,000 patients and the largest medical network in Northern California, Hill Physicians Medical Group Inc. faces a daunting challenge moving from paper to an electronic medical records (EMR) system. August 7, 1:31 p.m. PDT HP to acquire Mercury for $4.5 billion HP said Tuesday that it was buying Mercury Interactive for $4.5 billion in a deal to become a leader in IT management software. July 26, 9:00 a.m. PDT Oracle singles out five growth areas Oracle Corp. executives Monday defined five likely growth areas for the company in the coming year, encompassing a mix of new and established software offerings. July 18, 8:21 a.m. PDT StrataVia automates database management StrataVia Corp. announced software on Tuesday that it says can automate database administration tasks, helping to reduce costs and free DBAs (database administrators) to do other work. July 18, 7:18 a.m. PDT Quest brings sweet simplicity to database benchmarking As applications become more and more complicated, and businesses grow more reliant on electronic transactions, benchmarking becomes increasingly important. Businesses could really never get along without benchmarking, and some are starting to feel the pains of neglecting this process as their business needs grow. July 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT Evolving WinFS still needs to embrace the Web I was one of the lucky souls who saw the only public demonstration of Microsoft’s object-oriented file system, code-named Cairo, at the 1993 Professional Developers Conference. A decade later, in a column entitled “A Tale of Two Cairos”, I reflected on Cairo’s historical context and the modern context into which its successor, WinFS, would emerge -- which was, of course, the Web. Here’s what I said three years ago: July 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Unisys will push Microsoft Biztalk for border controls Unisys Corp. is hoping to pick up some work linking national police databases with European Union centralized databases for border control and visa applications -- and has chosen Microsoft Corp. as its software partner, the companies announced Wednesday. June 29, 10:39 a.m. PDT IBM set to unveil DB2 Viper after five years in the making After almost two years of testing, IBM says it is finally pulling the covers off DB2 Version 9, the next iteration of its flagship database server, on July 28. June 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT Recipe for career suicide My first job in the states was working for a company that sold database applications to hospitals. The president, “Mr. Charles,” had written the main applications himself using a programmable DBMS. Originally its programming language had been similar to BASIC, but after a couple of releases, it morphed to something much closer to C. May 30, 3:00 a.m. PDT MySQL patches buffer overflow flaws MySQL AB this week issued a security patch for multiple vulnerabilities in its MySQL open-source database. May 4, 10:48 a.m. PDT Business Objects launches data management tools Business Objects launched new tools for data federation and metadata management on Wednesday. Both tools are intended to improve the quality and consistency of information provided by business intelligence reporting systems by presenting data from multiple sources through a common interface. May 3, 4:25 a.m. PDT IBM DB2 "Viper" revs XML engine Code-named "Viper" and due for release in early summer, will be more worthy of its “Universal Database” tagline than previous versions. Not only does Viper contain an extensive list of enhancements that cover everything from security and development to storage and administration, but topping the list is a newly integrated XML storage engine that Big Blue says will put Microsoft and Oracle to shame. May 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT Earnings swing up at Software AG First-quarter net income at Germany's Software AG soared 23 percent, bolstered by strong software license sales, the database and integration software vendor said Friday. April 28, 4:37 a.m. PDT Oracle Database Vault locks down DBAs Oracle is readying a new add-on to its enterprise database software that will give users more control over how their data is accessed. Called Database Vault, the software will be introduced Wednesday at Oracle's Collaborate 06 User Group Conference, in Nashville, Tennessee. April 26, 4:11 a.m. PDT Rewarding the wrong guy … and other management lessons Many years ago I was hired as director of data processing (nobody called it IT in those days) for a large PBS TV station. The job title sounds grand, but in reality it was only a two-person department -- me and my assistant, Jim. April 25, 3:00 a.m. PDT HP launches archiving, data protection tools Hewlett-Packard on Monday will launch new tools to help businesses archive, access, and protect data. April 24, 5:56 a.m. PDT Oracle plugs 36 security holes in quarterly patch Oracle released a bevy of security patches for its software on Tuesday in its quarterly Critical Patch Update. April 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Users: Oracle Linux would be optimal Oracle Corp. customers are intrigued by recent musings from Larry Ellison, the company's chief executive officer, suggesting Oracle might offer its own Linux distribution. Users would welcome the tighter integration a complete Oracle software stack of operating system, database, middleware and applications could provide, they said in interviews this week. April 21, 10:35 a.m. PDT The long road to RFID interoperability Software isn’t the only factor driving wider adoption of RFID. Perhaps the largest single enabler has been the emergence of Gen2 -- officially known as the EPCglobal Class-1 Generation-2 UHF RFID Protocol for Communications -- which is the standard protocol for EPC (Electronic Product Code) tag transmissions. April 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT PolyServe consolidates SQL Server systems PolyServe has released a utility for Microsoft's SQL Server that aims to make it easier for enterprises to consolidate their database servers and cluster them for better performance and availability, it announced Wednesday. April 12, 8:55 a.m. PDT Enterprises struggling with privacy management Enterprises are under increasing pressure to safeguard the privacy and security of personal data, but the complexity of the task is making it difficult to meet higher expectations, a Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) project manager said Tuesday. April 11, 9:40 a.m. PDT How to exit a doomed IT project I work for a large trucking company in Chicago. These days I’m head of information services. But many years ago, right after I was hired as one of the low-end IT guys, I was asked to take on a month-long, “quick-hit” project using Microsoft Access and Oracle to capture shipment data and analyze it. I named it CTA/PTA, for Cycle-Time Analysis and Post-Trip Analysis. April 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT Investing in data management Ever wonder how we so-called professionals tell the difference between real analyst research and thinly disguised marketing pitches? The line between the two is getting finer all the time, and frankly there’s no reliable sniff test. So this week when I got a marketing come-on packed with interesting data, I said OK, I’ll bite. April 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT Ingres software appliance slated Ingres aims to release a software appliance combining its database software with Linux this year. The combined software will function as "an integrated maintenance unit," lessening the amount of integration work users have to engage in, according to Ingres Chief Technology Officer Dave Dargo. April 4, 12:09 p.m. PDT Database experiment reveals Darwin's inspiration British naturalist Charles Darwin is credited with the theory of evolution, but a crucial part of his theory came from his mentor, a lesser known but equally bright Cambridge University professor. April 4, 9:53 a.m. PDT U.K. police deploy searchable palm print database Police in England and Wales have completed deployment of a searchable palm-print identification system that over the last two weeks has already matched hundreds of prints with potential suspects, according to U.K. officials. March 24, 8:30 a.m. PST Novell steers Linux to the virtualized datacenter At Novell’s annual gathering of the faithful in Salt Lake City, the company had plenty of news to share, including a new mobile server for GroupWise based on Nokia Intellisync, upgrades to Novell’s SSO (single sign-on) and storage management software, road map information for OES (Open Enterprise Server), and a partnership with Dell, which soon offer an edition of Zenworks Linux Management to server hardware customers running Red Hat or Suse. March 24, 3:00 a.m. PST Tokyo Stock Exchange plans new trading system Tokyo Stock Exchange plans to spend about ¥45 billion ($384 million) over the next three years on upgrading and replacing its information systems, according to the bourse operator's latest mid-term plan. March 23, 3:57 a.m. PST Police computer spreads dragnet across the U.K. The cornerstone IT system used by all U.K. police forces is the Police National Computer (PNC), created in 1974. While it started with just a stolen vehicles database, it has been upgraded over the years to link to many other valuable databases, such as sex offender registries and license-plate surveillance tools. March 22, 7:33 a.m. PST Open beta for IBM's Viper database coming soon Businesses will be able to take the next version of IBM Corp.'s DB2 database, known as Viper, for a test run in the coming weeks, when IBM plans to release the first public beta of the software, an IBM official said Friday. March 10, 10:00 a.m. PST Microsoft's new role: Livestock tracker Microsoft Corp. has partnered with supply-chain software vendor ViaTrace LLC and a nonprofit livestock producers group to launch a database intended to track diseased animals in the U.S. and reduce consumer fears. March 1, 10:06 a.m. PST Privacy group: U.S. laws needed to rein in surveillance U.S. laws haven't kept up with the government's ability to use technology to spy on people, according to a report issued Wednesday by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). February 22, 9:39 a.m. PST Product Previews Sand/DNA Digs Into Compressed Data Sand Technology this week updated its DNA (Dynamic Nearline Architecture) data management technology, which compresses data to about 10 percent of its original size and allows the stored data to be searched without being decompressed. Sand is integrating its Sand/DNA Analytics analytic data repository with its Sand/DNA Access storage archival product, and adding new features to both offerings. The integration allows end-users to pull information transparently from DNA Access and load it into DNA Analytics using standard business intelligence tools. This removes much of the time spent on data modeling, according to Sand officials. Sand also introduced Sand/DNA for SAP Business Warehouse, which allows users to move, store, and access highly compressed data from a nearline data repository. Sand/DNA Access and Analytics, Sand Technology February 20, 3:00 a.m. PST The new scourge of open source? Oracle's done it again. Not only has it acquired another company, but in the process it has riled up the open source community once more. February 20, 3:00 a.m. PST Sleepycat VP says Oracle buy is not about MySQL Oracle Corp.'s acquisition of Sleepycat Software Inc. shouldn't be seen as a way to hobble open-source database player MySQL AB, according to a Sleepycat executive. Rex Wang, Sleepycat vice president of marketing, said the purchase is more about Oracle's bid to win more business in the burgeoning embedded database market February 15, 11:17 a.m. PST Symantec moving ahead with database appliance After beta testing its "Big Brother" database appliance with a handful of customers, Symantec Corp. is moving ahead with plans to bring the device to market. The Cupertino, California, company is also toying with the idea of selling the appliance's monitoring technology as a software product, according to a Symantec executive. February 10, 12:43 p.m. PST > Applications > Databases > Data management > Databases > Platforms > Databases > Storage > Databases |
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