Brian Prince

Oracle is teaming up with Acxiom Corp. to offer a pre-packaged and integrated, content-rich, knowledge-based master data management tool. The partnership between Oracle and Little, Ark.-based Acxiom, a provider of customer and information management tools, to bring to market a powerful, integrated MDM offering that will allow organizations to better understand their customers, help increase […]

Database rivals MySQL and IBM on April 25 announced plans to bring support for the MySQL open-source database to the IBM System i business computing platform. The two companies will work together to offer MySQL Server for i5/OS—the operating system for System i—and expect to deliver DB2 for i5/OS as a certified MySQL storage engine […]

ANTs software is keeping an eye towards its competitors as it unveils technology aimed at easing the consolidation of disparate databases. ANTs is in the process of developing a product it calls the Compatibility Server, middleware company officials said will help migrate applications to any of the major enterprise database offerings from Oracle, IBM or […]

Researchers at Datamonitor can give corporations 1.8 million reasons to protect themselves against data breaches. According to the research groups new report, “Datagate: The Next Inevitable Corporate Disaster?”, the average cost of a data leak incident is $1.82 million. That figure is based on accounts of 23 percent of respondents—the others were unable to track […]

Oracle continued its shopping spree on April 24 when company officials announced plans to acquire Lodestar, a provider of meter data management for the utilities industry. Lodestar is headquartered in Peabody, Mass., and has a list of customers that includes some of the largest energy companies in North America, Europe and Australia. Financial conditions of […]

Oracle has released a missing fix for the database flaw rated most deadly in the Critical Patch Update the company released last week. The flaw, dubbed DB01 in the update issued April 17, is in the Core RDBMS (relational database management system) and can be remotely exploited over the network by an attacker sans user […]

Since the companys founding in 2004, EnterpriseDB has sought to make its PostgreSQL-based relational database management system the affordable, enterprise-class database of choice. With a new version of its Advanced Server product on the way to market in late May, the company is making a play for success with a combination of improved Oracle compatibility […]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture narrowed the number of people whose personal data was exposed on a Web site to 38,700, as agency officials stressed the steps being taken to protect those affected by the situation. The 38,700 people affected were awarded funds through the FSA (Farm Service Agency) or USDA Rural Development. The data […]

Security vendor Sunbelt Software has armed an upgraded version of its CounterSpy Enterprise product with a number of enhancements to protect users from threats, including an automatic deployment feature. CounterSpy Enterprise 2.0 allows administrators at the policy level to specify any combination of machine lists, IP ranges, IP subnets, IP addresses and Active Directory Organizational […]

A fifth defendant pleaded guilty Tuesday in connection with a piracy ring that used BitTorrent technology to distribute copyrighted movies, software, games and music over a peer-to-peer network. Sam Kuonen, 24, of Columbus, Ga., pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and criminal copyright infringement in violation of the Family Entertainment […]

Symantec officials announced the release of an upgraded version of Backup Exec System Recovery that features enhanced Microsoft Exchange support and data recovery capabilities they hope will speed and simplify the Windows system recovery process. Backup Exec System Recovery 7.0 works by creating recovery points to capture an exact copy of a system, company officials […]

Oracle Tuesday issued its second critical patch update for the year, this time patching 36 security holes in its products – including several that can be exploited remotely by an attacker without authentication. The most serious of the flaws affects Oracle relational database management system running on Windows, which received a Common Vulnerability Scoring System […]