Brian Prince

Not too long ago, Microsoft sought to shake up the data warehousing market with the purchase of DATAllegro. Not to be outdone, Oracle jumped into the fray at its Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. But instead of an acquisition, Oracle pulled the covers off a project three years in the making-the HP Oracle Database […]

In a move meant to shake up the data warehousing market, Oracle has unveiled a data warehouse product focused on high performance. Dubbed the HP Oracle Database Machine, the appliance is aimed squarely at challenging data warehousing vendors Teradata and Netezza. At the core of the product is the Exadata Storage Server, which can support […]

Oracle is teaming with Intel to accelerate enterprise adoption of cloud computing. News of the partnership came at the Oracle OpenWorld 2008 conference in San Francisco. The idea is to make enterprise cloud computing more secure and efficient and to drive the development of standards that enable flexible deployment across public and private clouds. In […]

Expecting to hear a major announcement about the next release of Oracle Database 11g while you’re here at Oracle OpenWorld? Think again. Mark Townsend, vice president of database product management at Oracle, confirmed Tuesday that the company would not be making any announcements about 11g Release 2 during the five-day conference. Just what will be […]

If data are the crown jewels of enterprises, then the database should be as close to Fort Knox as possible without sacrificing things like performance. Saying that out loud is the easy part. The rest is where Tanya Baccam’s presentation at the Oracle OpenWorld 2008 conference in San Francisco comes in. Baccam, a certified instructor […]

Fortinet has officially added database security to its repertoire with the first member of a family of appliances based on technology acquired from IPLocks earlier this year. With the release of FortiDB-1000B, Fortinet is making good on its promise to extend its security focus to the database layer. “After the acquisition we put a concerted […]

Oracle is embracing cloud computing with its support for Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Compute Cloud environment. The move, announced Sept. 22 at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, will benefit both companies as enterprises look to the cloud for more services. Right now, Oracle plans to allow customers to license Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Enterprise Manager […]

Oracle Database Users Lock Out Data Leak Security at Oracle OpenWorld Oracle Database Users Lock Out Data Leak Security at Oracle OpenWorld – Are Your Databases Configured Securely? The IOUG survey found 17 percent of users said either some or none of their databases were securely configured. Another 15 percent were unsure. Though that bodes […]

McAfee plans to acquire network security vendor Secure Computing for roughly $465 million. According to McAfee, the move is meant to strengthen its network security portfolio with Secure Computing’s firewall, intrusion prevention, and Web and e-mail security tools. “Today’s announcement of this pending acquisition is a natural extension of McAfee’s security-only focus,” Dave DeWalt, CEO […]

Perhaps the most unsettling thing about the hack on Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account was the way it happened. Rather than some automated tool or complex virus, Google and Wikipedia searches appear to have been the weapons used to knock down the walls guarding her e-mail. When news of the hack […]