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<item><title>Amazon Web Services Launches DynamoDB, a New NoSQL Database Service</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:00:35 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a new NoSQL database service known as DynamoDB that delivers fast and predictable performance with all the scalability you can ask for.   -  Amazon Web Services has again delivered key
technology to keep itself ahead of the cloud computing pack with a new
high-performance, highly scalable NoSQL database service known as DynamoDB.
AWS quietly keeps delivering new
capabilities that help its customers out of jams and continue to confoun...]]></description>
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<item><title>Oracle Updates Its TimesTen in-Memory Database</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:47:31 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/Oracle-Updates-Its-TimesTen-inMemory-Database-417256/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The new release included parallelized replication and new real-time analytics capabilities; this is the first update for TimesTen since 2009.   -  Databases and applications that run in large caches of dynamic memory for high-transaction systems are getting closer looks from more enterprises in 2012.

This is an IT segment that has gained a significant amount of traction in the last couple of years as workloads get bigger and more demands ar...]]></description>
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<item><title>Oracle to Show New Database Appliance at OpenWorld</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:04:32 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/Oracle-to-Show-New-Database-Appliance-at-OpenWorld-724019/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Oracle Database Appliance is a sort of converged, medium-size Exadata for SMBs, midrange and remote-office enterprise IT systems.   -  Not
long after Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010, it did some rebranding and
ported over its 2-year-old, Hewlett-Packard-boxed Exadata Database Server to
its new SPARC-powered hardware and began weaning it off the older machines. If
Oracle was going to become a full-service IT provider, t...]]></description>
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<item><title>Oracle Software Licensing Sparks Upbeat Earnings Report</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:46:52 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/Oracle-Software-Licensing-Sparks-Upbeat-Earnings-Report-822098/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Oracle's hardware systems revenues, however, were down 5 percent. First-quarter earnings totaled 48 cents a share, beating the average estimate of 47 cents of Wall Street analysts.   -  Oracle,
led by its steady software sales, turned in an upbeat earnings report Sept. 20,
showing gross and net income up for the most recent sales quarter.
The
database, middleware and data center hardware company reported that its fiscal
first-quarter 2012 total revenues were up 12 percent to $...]]></description>
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<item><title>Does NoSQL Matter for Your Organization?</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:05:47 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/Does-NoSQL-Matter-for-Your-Organization-367801/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Its clear that NoSQL adoption has paid dividends to the Twitters and Netflixes of the world. But its been less apparent just how much attention mainstream organizations ought to pay to the trend, since relational databases are familiar and well-entrenched, and since many well-established solutions exist for scaling relational databases.   -  Over the past few years, NoSQL
databases have received a great deal of attention, with countless attestations
of their virtues in enabling consumer-facing, Web-based businesses to manage
fast-growing user demand and make use of the huge quantities of data that their
users create. 
Its clear tha...]]></description>
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<item><title>Oracle Releases New Template for MySQL VMs</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:58:20 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/Oracle-Releases-New-Template-for-MySQL-VMs-797783/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[This software shortcut is designed to enable more efficient and lower-cost deployments of virtualized MySQL environments by eliminating almost all of the standard manual configuration it requires.   -  Preconfiguration, prepackaging and
automation of many IT functions are key attributes of the new unified computing
systems, and this is a trend that is gaining serious traction on a global
scale. Spending hours configuring a server or storage array for a virtualized
system is fast becoming drudg...]]></description>
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<item><title>Oracle Earnings Solid but Hardware Sales Slip</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:02:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The company brought in total quarterly revenue of $10.8 billion, an increase of 12 percent on the same period last year, and a tad above analysts' projections of $10.75 billion.   -  When all the numbers were tallied, Oracle turned in a record-breaking fourth quarter and fiscal year financial report June 23. 

However, a second consecutive quarter of weak data center hardware
sales caused its stock to slip more than 6 percent in after-hours
trading.

Two hours after the ma...]]></description>
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<item><title>Oracle Posts First MySQL 5.6 Development Release</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:20:13 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/Oracle-Posts-First-MySQL-56-Development-Release-404881/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The company positions the new version as fine-tuned for cloud systems, thanks to an improved InnoDB storage engine and enhanced replication capabilities.   -  It
seems as if all IT software and hardware development is positioned toward or at
least trying to be in the same picture with cloud computing these days.
MySQL
is the latest product to plop onto the cloud bandwagon. On Day 1 of the Oracle
Users Group's Collaborate 2011 conference in Orlando, F...]]></description>
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<item><title>Couchbase Ships Membase Server for Mac OS X</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:21:12 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/Couchbase-Ships-Membase-Server-for-Mac-OS-X-500535/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[NoSQL database company Couchbase launches Membase Server for Mac OS X.   -  Couchbase, the NoSQL database company, announced it has
released Membase Server for Mac OS X. 
Membase Server is part of the Couchbase
family of NoSQL database products, which now offers a developer-friendly
interface to better serve Mac-centric, Web-focused developers, Couchbase
officials said...]]></description>
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<item><title>MySQL, Oracle Database Customers to Access Common Online Tech Support</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:44:49 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/MySQL-Oracle-Database-Customers-to-Access-Common-Online-Tech-Support-895671/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Oracle has released an update to MySQL 5.5 Enterprise Edition that gives users of the open-source database access to the same 24/7 online technical support environment as the Oracle database. The new release also includes new backup, development and application monitoring tools.   -  Oracle has issued an update to the MySQL Enterprise Edition 5.5
database package that includes 24/7 worldwide customer support that
effectively allows MySQL customers to access the same product support
infrastructure as Oracle Database customers, according company
officials.
By providing access...]]></description>
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<item><title>Couchbase Delivers NoSQL Server Under New Advisory Board</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:09:54 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Couchbase, NoSQL database company and product family created through the merger of CouchOne and Membase, announces Couchbase Server and new advisory board.   -  Couchbase has released Couchbase Server, a new database system powered by the Apache CouchDB NoSQL database technology.
Officials at Couchbase, the NoSQL database company
created by the merger of CouchOne and Membase, said the new Couchbase
Server is well-suited for developers because it leverage...]]></description>
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<item><title>Teradata Acquisition of Aster Data Systems Bolsters Big Data Capabilities</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:09:14 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/Teradata-Acquisition-of-Aster-Data-Systems-Bolsters-Big-Data-Capabilities-508489/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Teradata planned $263 million acquisition of Aster Data Systems brings big data analytical capabilities in-house.   -  With
the challenge of managing and analyzing big data growing ever-larger, Teradata
is acquiring Aster Data Systems, a move analysts say is a good one.
“Acquiring
Aster Data wont give Teradata additional market share to battle Oracle,
IBM and Microsoft, as well as EMC and HP, but it does provid...]]></description>
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<item><title>Gazzang Pushes MySQL Database Encryption, Cloud Security</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:32:26 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/Gazzang-Pushes-MySQL-Database-Encryption-Cloud-Security-437194/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Gazzang is focusing on cloud security with an encryption solution targeted at MySQL databases.   -  Gazzang wants to make cloud
computing safe for enterprises a goal that for the company begins with
encrypting data. 
Its product, ezNcrypt, is
used to encrypt MySQL database transactions and data. In its latest edition,
ezNcrypt now includes public/private key encryption and integration with
l...]]></description>
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<item><title>Data-Warehousing Market to Reach Inflection Point in 2011, Gartner Says</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:00:32 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/Data-Warehousing-Market-to-Reach-Inflection-Point-in-2011-Gartner-Says-392042/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Gartner analysts discuss the state of the data-warehousing market in 2011.   -  Analysts at Gartner are
predicting 2011 will be  an inflection point for the data-warehousing
market. 
As data-warehouse platforms evolve,
they will embrace analytics and support different information types; the result
will be a new era of data warehousing, according to Gartner, which just
rel...]]></description>
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<item><title>NoSQL Companies CouchOne, Membase Merge to Form Couchbase</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:39:29 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/NoSQL-Companies-CouchOne-Membase-Merge-to-Form-Couchbase-359852/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The merger will offer customers an end-to-end family of database products, officials hope.   -  Membase and CouchOne have joined forces to form Couchbase a marriage
in  the NoSQL
movement the companies  hope will spawn an  end-to-end family of
database products.
The Couchbase product family is slated to be rolled out during the coming
months and will span from the desktop to the data cent...]]></description>
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