Brian Fonseca

With its long-awaited Oracle 10g database out the door, Oracle Corp. is altering its entry-level pricing, processor support and clustering option in an effort to make the new technology appeal to small and midtier customers. The Redwood Shores, Calif., software company last week announced availability of 10g versions for Linux, 64-bit Solaris and HP-UX. A […]

Following a year in which it aggressively invested in storage management software, EMC Corp. is revitalizing its hardware focus with a massive overhaul of its storage platforms. In a grand plan to bolster performance and compatibility across existing products, the Hopkinton, Mass., company this week will launch new and enhanced Symmetrix DMX-2 and Clariion CX […]

Oracle Corp.s announcement last week that it was increasing its bid for competitor PeopleSoft Inc. by 33 percent, to $9.4 billion, is prompting some investors to look seriously at the offer for the first time. Enterprise customers of both companies software also are now wondering about the likelihood and impact of the deal going through. […]

Acknowledging its intentions to scoop up smaller database customers who may have shied away from pricey Oracle entry points, Oracle Corp. on Tuesday slashed the price of its entry-level product. The company was buoyed by the release of its long-anticipated Oracle 10g database and offered clustering and managment options. During a conference call, the software […]

Oracle Corp. on Tuesday will unveil a sharp $1,000 price reduction in its entry-level Oracle 10g Standard Edition One database release during an Oracle 10g-related news conference, officials of the software maker confirmed. During a briefing today, the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based database company acknowledged plans to announce that Standard Edition One will shift towards dual-processor […]

Network Appliance Inc. is planting its storage foothold in the grid computing landscape, unveiling a number of partnerships and technology deployments this week toward cementing that goal. At Oracle AppsWorld on Tuesday, NetApp announced that Oracle Corp. has implemented more than 1,000 terabytes of the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based storage vendors offerings to underpin part of its […]

Manufacturers of consumer goods and retailers that sell them are gearing up to use RFID chips to track products through supply chains. But as pilot projects get under way, some companies are looking for technologies that will help manage the flood of new data that radio-frequency identification solutions will produce. RFID is a small application-specific […]

The acceleration of e-commerce in general was putting online auto retailer AutoTradeCenter Inc. on a collision course. The greater frequency of hits on its Web sites and the subsequent increase in transaction volumes stressed its IT infrastructure, which comprised Java-based applications with an Oracle Corp. database running on Sun Microsystems Corp. servers. Interest in selling […]

As if the role of database administrators in the IT universe was not important enough, many DBAs say growing concerns about database security have increased their workload and blurred their responsibilities with respect to application development. The transition has occurred over the last year in a series of damaging security vulnerabilities in major DBMSes from […]

EMC Corp. is expanding its storage management initiative with a software suite that gives organizations tools for limiting the volume of data that can be placed in their enterprise databases. The new DatabaseXtender suite enables organizations to monitor database growth and identifies and relocates inactive data to various lower-cost storage devices. As a result, enterprises […]