Chris Averill, CEO of customer insight specialist We Are Experience, explains how you can embrace the power of positive personalisation

Chris Averill, CEO of customer insight specialist We Are Experience, explains how you can embrace the power of positive personalisation
Data of 10,000 drivers leaked online after PaymyPCN.net database security gaff
Shady website offers an anonymous marketplace for potential whistleblowers ...and blackmailers
The new release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack platform includes OpenStack-on-OpenStack (TripleO), which will let clouds deploy and build other clouds
Doctors can access 1,600 digital hearts for research as big data cross into medical environment
New proposals governing NSA data collection don't go far enough, campaigners complain
Revenues at Oracle rise as the software giant sees a 45 percent increase at its cloud services business
78 percent of UK organisations are not confident that they can fully recover after a disruption
The bad blood between bitter rivals Oracle and SAP may ease slightly after the settlement of a lengthy lawsuit
Surpasses EMC to take top spot
Do you know your HANA from your Hadoop? Then try out big data quiz!
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) launches version 2.0 of the Cassandra NoSQL database
SAP makes a significant strategic move after announcing its Business Suite will now run on the HANA platform
Pivotal Tracker will combine with EMC's Chorus to harmonise applications for Big Data developers
Oracle has beaten the Street by posting an 18 percent net income increase and a 2.2 percent increase in Q3 2012 earnings
Data Insight's scalable and parallel architecture is designed to support large-scale data management operations
An IDC study estimates value of the 2015 market for big data technology and services will be five times that of 2010
Zettaset's SHadoop is intended to make it easier for organisations to control user access to data within Hadoop clusters
Microsoft has announced price reductions for its SQL Azure cloud database services with a new minimum 100MB option
Gartner has identified the drivers for the adoption of SaaS and cloud offerings for BI, analytics and performance management
IBM's analytics appliance targets retailers to help them wrangle with Big Data and gain insight into customer buying patterns
Splunk, the data monitor, searcher, analyser, and visualiser can now show Big Data on Apple iOS mobile devices
DynamoDB, a cloud-based database, delivers fast and predictable performance with all the scalability you can ask for, claims AWS
Oracle may not be paying attention to its flagship database software and underreporting the severity of a "fundamental" flaw
Oracle has released patches for 16 critical bugs among the 78 vulnerabilities fixed in its flagship database and associated software
In the first update for TimesTen since 2009, Oracle has added parallelised replication and new real-time analytics capabilities
The third mass injection attack in a year uses search engines as a reconnaissance tool to identify sites to hit and then directs users to Lilupophilupop.com
Oracle has launched the Big Data Appliance which was forged from a partnership with Cloudera, the Apache Hadoop interface/tools provider
The market for customer data management is expected to grow to $644 million in 2012 and exceed $1 billion in 2015, says Gartner
The global database and systems management markets grew in 2011defspite a weak economy, according to IDC