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Latest MapR Hadoop Adds Win And Mac Support
The v1.2 release puts Hadoop analytics in the hands of more users, with extra languages and platforms
Red Gate Announces Space Flight Finalists
One lucky DBA could be one of the first to experience sub orbital flight
Swedish Cloud DBaaS Avoids Patriot Privacy Snag
As the Patriot Act drowns Safe Habor concepts, European cloud services find a marketing angle
PostgreSQL Database-as-a-Service From Heroku
Platform-as-a-service provider Heroku launches relational object database service built on Postgres
Hadoop World Highlights Dataset Security Issues
Hadoop World speakers touted the software for analysing unstructured data, others focused on security
Red Gate To Send Lucky Database Admin Into Orbit
A competition exclusively for DBAs will send one into space - but Red Gate promises to bring them back
Informatica Teams Up On Free Hadoop Parser
The Informatica/Hortonworks parser turns complex data into structured or semi-structured format in Hadoop
Endeca Buy Boosts Oracle’s Big Data Management
Oracle plans to acquire Endeca Technologies to improve its access to unstructured and Big Data
Microsoft Adopts Apache Hadoop For Data Analytics
Open source Apache Hadoop to become Microsoft's Windows Azure and Server big data analyser
Oracle Social Network Launched For Cloud
CEO Ellison took the wraps off a business Social Network to front the new Oracle Public Cloud
IBM Lures Disgruntled Oracle Customers To Defect
IBM is looking to lure disgruntled customers, who are tired of Oracle's restrictive policies and rising prices
Teradata Merges Big Data Into Warehouse Appliance
Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance 2690 triples the data storage processing capacity of its predecessor
Database As A Service Launched By VMware
VMware announced vFabric Data Director, a database as a service platform for enterprises, at VMworld
Ingres’ Big Data Battle Vectors On Microsoft
Ingres has ported its Vectorwise system to Windows to offer fast Big Data analysis to all sizes of firms
Amazon Web Services Launches ElastiCache
AWS announces the release of ElastiCache to run an in-memory cache for apps addressing the AWS cloud
HP Drops webOS, Spins PC Business, Buys Autonomy
Against a dire financial backdrop, HP kills mobile unit, plots spinning-off its PCs and buys UK's Autonomy
Twitter Plots To Storm Growing Big Data Market
Storm, from Twitter's BackData, will provide new ways of reputation tracking in realtime - and more
Dell Joins Hadoop Crowd With Cloudera Partnership
Dell will add PowerEdge C servers, services and its vast channel and sales networks to Cloudera's software
Spain Investigates “Anticompetitive” Oracle
Spanish authorities are examining HP's claims of anticompetitive practices by Oracle relating to Itanium support
Police DNA Database Will Retain ‘Innocent’ Profiles
Home Office minister James Brokenshire has admitted to broken promises of police DNA data erasure
Attackers Go Gaga Over Latest Hack
Normally headline-grabbing, Lady Gaga has been unusually quiet about the theft of fans' email addresses from her site
Oracle Critical Patch Update Is A Big Debugger
Oracle will patch 78 software vulnerabilities across its product portfolio, including the database, PeopleSoft and Solaris
Police Launch National Crime Database
A new database that brings together intelligence from police forces around the UK could speed up investigations
HP Boosts Its Big Data Analytics With Vertica 5.0
More than a petabyte of data can be analysed in real time with HP's release of Vertica Analytics Platform 5.0
PCI SSC And Cisco Guides On Securing Virtual Systems
The PCI Council's latest guide explores virtual environment security while Cisco shows how to achieve compliance
Databases Face Greatest Threats From Human Error
Database professionals reveal their greatest security concerns are mistakes by their fellow employees
HP Retunes Info Management Products And Services
HP offers start points for connecting silos of data, stopping short of the "master data management" label
Websites Hit By Massive SQL Injection Attack
An outbreak of SQL injection attacks has infected over 380,000 sites
TripAdvisor Loses User Data In Possible SQL Attack
TripAdvisor, an Expedia company, confirms the database theft of a part of its member email list