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2008-09-03
Once touted the as centerpiece of the National Counterterrorism Center's efforts to upgrade the government's terrorist watch list, Railhead program floundering after contractor turf battles over using an Oracle relational database or an Extensible Markup Language model. House Science and Technology Committee's Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee also faults program management and oversight by National Counterterrorism Center officials. Rep. Brad Miller calls Railhead on the brink of collapse after a $500 million investment of taxpayer dollars.
2008-09-03
Continuent added a replication tool to address the needs of users of the MySQL open-source database. With the Tungsten Replicator, the company has included a number of features to address challenges around MySQL database replication for enterprises. Later this month, the company plans to add support for Oracle as well.
2008-09-02
IBM announces a new twist in its Information On Demand strategy with the introduction of a number of tools for data discovery modeling and data analytics as well as services to provide deeper insight into data. The announcement represents a maturation of IBM's Information On Demand strategy, and focuses on getting enterprises to accelerate enterprise access to data and the governance of information as a strategic business asset.
2008-08-29
SenSage is leveraging its history in security information management with its event data warehouse. By focusing on event data, SenSage is looking to cut its own path distinct from vendors such as Oracle, Teradata and Netezza in the data warehouse space.
2008-08-26
Greenplum and Aster Data Systems will support MapReduce, a technique pioneered by Google to analyze large data sets. Both Aster Data Systems and Greenplum, which competes with companies such as Oracle and Netezza in the data warehousing space, believe MapReduce will improve analytics for large data sets.
2008-08-21
Netezza purchased technology from Intelligent Integration Systems earlier this month and acquired NuTech Solutions in May in a bid to deepen analytics in the data warehouse. Netezza faces competition though from Oracle, Teradata, IBM and others, but Netezza feels the new technology will help them better compete.
2008-08-19
EDGAR, the computer database for filing documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, is giving way to a new system that aims to let investors more easily analyze corporate reports and other financial information. SEC Chairman Christopher Cox unveiled IDEA, short for Interactive Data Electronic Applications, saying it would give investors faster, more accurate and more useful information about public companies and mutual funds.
2008-08-18
Intel is providing its new Tolapai chip set and storage vendor Dot Hill is providing the data storage arrays for Hermes, a private space travel project. The Dot Hill arrays using the Tolapai chip sets will provide real-time feedback to the flight crew for the Hermes shuttle, which is being designed to eventually reach a suborbital altitude of 62 miles.
2008-08-15
On the eve of the Intel Developer Forum, AMD executives said the company's 45-nanometer Shanghai processor will enter the market by the fourth quarter of 2008. The AMD processor is designed to compete against the Intel Nehalem processor, especially in the volume two-socket server market.
2008-08-15
As vendors such as Microsoft and Amazon.com push databases into the cloud, enterprises should consider database-as-a-service as part of a DBMS strategy, according to a new Forrester Research report. However, a number of challenges remain before cloud databases can be widely adopted by enterprises.
2008-08-12
Microsoft released its Patch Tuesday update today, which includes a fix for a zero-day flaw affecting Microsoft Office Access that has been targeted by hackers. Other fixes address issues in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Windows and other products.
2008-08-11
Microsoft is starting its Active Protections Program to give anti-virus, intrusion prevention system and network security vendors a heads up about security fixes in advance of patch Tuesday. Other infrastructure vendors such as Sun Microsystems and Apple could benefit users by following suit with similar programs.
2008-08-06
Microsoft is releasing SQL Server 2008 to manufacturing after several delays. Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 will help Microsoft compete with Oracle and its 11g database, and IBM and its DB2 9.5 database. SQL Server 2008 will be generally available within two weeks.
2008-08-05
The U.S. Attorney in Boston and Secret Service charge 11 with identity theft of millions of credit and debit cards from the TJX database breach. More than 40 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen when hackers breached the network of TJX and stole customer data from retailers BJ's Wholesale Club, OfficeMax, Boston Market, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority, Forever 21 and DSW.
2008-08-01
Officials at Sun say the MySQL 5.1 open-source database will be generally available in the coming weeks. Sun had said MySQL 5.1 would be available earlier in 2008, but had to delay the release to allow developers to fix bugs.
2008-07-31
A Gartner study shows that blade servers continue to be the fastest growing segment of the server market, which helps HP and IBM. However, proprietary blade architecture and the difficulty of developing I/O standards will continue to cause concerns for IT managers.
2008-07-31
Symantec CEO John Thompson said the company has no plans to get in the encryption business. Symantec will continue its OEM relationship with data encryption vendor GuardianEdge, even as security rivals McAfee and Sophos make acquisitions to bring endpoint encryption inhouse.
2008-07-30
An analyst report on the data center configuration product reflects sample customer savings of more than $1 million over 36 months due to improved planning and processes. But watch out: The upfront investment in a configuration management database can be steep.
2008-07-29
A video interview with a rape victim hadn't been recorded on a DVD correctly. But Seagate technicians were able to reconstruct the digital file in time for the trial judge to review it. As a result, a 40-year-old Santa Cruz County man is facing the prospect of a long prison sentence.
2008-07-28
IBM is preparing to offer its BladeCenter blade system as part of Rackable's ICE Cube modular data center, which some believe has the potential to be part of an IT infrastructure for high-performance computing and Web 2.0.
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