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IBM is rolling out the first of its Power7 systems as it looks to grab more market share in the $14 billion Unix server space from HP and Sun. The move comes as HP and Intel prepare to release the next-generation Itanium processor and Oracle looks to bring Sun into the fold.
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SAP CEO Leo Apotheker resigned on Feb. 7 after he and the SAP supervisory board "reached a mutual agreement" not to extend Apotheker’s contract as a member of the SAP executive board. SAP named Bill McDermott, head of SAP’s field organization, and Jim Hagermann Snabe, head of product development, as co-CEOs replacing Apotheker as sole CEO.
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At Black Hat DC, security researchers present a way to hack the connection between Web applications and the database, a method they call connection string parameter pollution.
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IBM InfoSphere Business Information Monitor and IBM Optim Data Redaction are designed to help enterprises better manage the access and use of information across various platforms.
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Virtualization introduces a new capacity management paradigm, forcing IT administrators to reassess how they currently plan and manage data center capacity. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Rob Smoot discusses various capacity management methods, explaining why capacity management is important, and how it differs in the physical world versus a virtualized one.
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Data storage systems provider Sepaton is a steadily growing company that might have the fastest backup software in the business: Its virtual tape libraries (VTLs) have been clocked backing up petabytes of data at up to 34.5TB per hour, among the fastest rates benchmarked. The Marlboro, Mass., company produces disk-based virtual tape hardware and software—including high-end data deduplication appliances—for large enterprises and small to midsize data centers. Jay Kramer, Sepaton's vice president of worldwide marketing, has been a sought-after industry analyst, consultant and event organizer. He offers eWEEK his take on disaster recovery points that all enterprises should consider.
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Data parallel programming on a distributed data grid is an important new method for overcoming performance bottlenecks for a broad class of applications. This new method is expected to have important applications in cloud computing over the next few years. Here, Knowledge Center contributor William L. Bain discusses how a distributed data grid can be used to implement powerful, Java-based applications for parallel data analysis.
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UPDATED: With all of its newly acquired Sun intellectual property and R&D in hand, Oracle is now moving headlong into the server, storage, processor, networking and, yes, even the switch business. But the most hotly debated factor in the acquisition has been the MySQL database.
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Bernie Spang, IBM's director of product strategy, criticizes some of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's remarks about IBM's DB2 database software.
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After nine months of jumping through legal hoops, Oracle on Jan. 27 closed its $7.4 billion deal to buy Sun Microsystems. The world's second-largest software company wasted no time explaining to everybody what it is going to do with its newly acquired hardware, software and services businesses. It staged a full-day press and analyst briefing on that very same day to do just that. Since the companies have been working together since the 1980s, many of their products are already integrated; however, some new ones are not and will take some time to put together. More difficult will be the integration of some 27,000 Sun employees into the Oracle culture, one that, in some ways, is very different from Sun's. Following are photos of some of the highlights of the Jan. 27 event.
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As Oracle looks to make Sun’s hardware business profitable again, a key part of the plan is reforming Sun’s supply chain, according to officials. Sun is moving from a build-to-stock model to a build-to-order strategy, reducing the number of systems it sells, cutting the number of component suppliers, and closing manufacturing and distribution centers. The moves will save money on transportation, distribution and inventory, Oracle and Sun officials said.
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says his company will end up hiring about 2,000 new employees at Sun Microsystems and claims that will be about twice as many as the company dismisses to complete the takeover of the server and storage hardware company it paid more than $7.4 billion to acquire. Oracle will also continue to invest in the MySQL database to improve its capabilities and will retain its sales and development teams, according to Ellison.
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With its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle is bringing the MySQL database into the fold, which analysts agree will pose a challenge for Microsoft and IBM. IBM, however, says its strategy will be unaffected.
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Oracle executives, including President Charles Phillips, EVP of Hardware Engineering John Fowler and EVP of Product Development Thomas Kurian, addressed a standing-room-only audience at Oracle's on-campus auditorium here on the western shore of the San Francisco Bay.
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Oracle will accelerate the investment in Sun's SPARC and Solaris server and storage hardware, making it the foundation upon which to build the company's tightly integrated technology stacks. During an event outlining the new road map for Sun products, Oracle officials said the company has plans for the next four generations of UltraSPARC processors, will invest in enhancing Solaris and will expand Sun's T and M Series server lines.
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Database virtualization can improve flexibility, maximize efficiency, lower costs and ease administrative overhead.
The free, open-source Talend Open Studio makes it easy to round up data, tweak it en masse, and load it into target systems such as databases and enterprise applications.
REVIEW: iLuminate sets out to address data warehousing limitations with its iLuminate 4.0 correlation database. Rather than store data in tables, iLuminate 4.0 organizes information in value pools based on data type, with an auto-generated indexing system that keeps track of the values' context. This fully indexed, value-based storage approach can yield significant performance benefits, but eWEEK Labs was most impressed by iLuminate's knack for making data available for analysis with very few planning or design requirements.
What will become of the open-source MySQL database after database giant Oracle acquires Sun Microsystems? After considering the database market, Oracle's and Sun's strengths, and history, eWEEK Labs' Jeff Cogswell thinks that MySQL and its customers can expect the database to live on, although perhaps not exactly as we know it now.
TECH ANALYSIS: IBM has DB2, not to mention Informix, while Sun Microsystems has MySQL. Will one trump the others? eWEEK Labs examines the overlap and synergies between IBM's and Sun's database platforms, and what customers should expect should an acquisition go forward.
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