Lisa Vaas

Close on the heels of Oracles latest critical patch update, Gartner has published an advisory warning that, given the seriousness and the ease of exploit of the flaws involved, administrators have got to get over their laissez-faire attitude toward patching. “Oracle has not yet experienced a mass security exploit, but this does not mean that […]

Oracle Corp. is sick of it. Microsoft Corp. has been strutting with its newfound security street cred. Take its developers—theyre able to quote chapter and verse of the companys SDL (Security Development Lifecycle) blueprint for software creation. But what about Oracle? Why dont we hear about securing coding from the database king? The company has […]

To keep up with customers proliferating SQL Server instances, Idera has added a repository engine to capture performance analysis data from multiple SQL Servers in the latest version of its performance monitoring and diagnostics tool. Version 4.0 of Ideras SQL diagnostic manager aims to help database administrators keep up with SQL Server infrastructures that are […]

IBM on Jan. 23 plans to carry through with its promise to open-source search and text analysis technology that mines unstructured data—such as documents, images, comment and note fields, e-mail, and rich media such as video and audio—to uncover hidden relationships, trends and facts. IBM is handing code for the technology, called UIMA (Unstructured Information […]

Oracle Corp. is sick of it. While Microsoft Corp. and its developers quote chapter and verse of its Security Development Lifecycle blueprint for software creation—a set of procedures that spans code design, development, testing and deployment to build secure software—database king Oracle has been mum about its secure coding initiatives. Customers, however, have been vocal […]

HyperRoll Inc., maker of software that speeds up BI applications and helps them scale, is hooking its technology into that of Prologic, a UK vendor of specialized ERP software for the fashion and lifestyle industry. Prologic is combining its CIMS enterprise resource planning tool with HyperRolls data aggregation technology in order to help customers crank […]

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday released a JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) Driver that allows developers to link Java applications to its SQL Server databases. The driver is available free of charge to all SQL Server users. It hooks into both SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000 from any Java application, application server or Java-enabled applet. […]

StreamBase Systems Inc. has greased the gears of its real-time processing engine, announcing on Monday that its flagship Stream Processing Engine is now 64-bit compatible. StreamBases product may sound similar to Oracle Corp.s recently acquired TimesTen real-time database, but its competitive edge lies in the fact that its not actually a real-time database. Rather, the […]

Open-source software has scored another government takeover, with MySQL AB nabbing a five-year contract with the General Services Administration that will put its open-source database at the fingertips of government customers. MySQL already hums under thousands of federal, state and local government entities, including Los Alamos National Laboratory, the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Geological […]

Brace yourself: Another quarterly CPU (Critical Patch Update) is due out from Oracle Corp. on Jan. 17. With it will come what customers refer to as a nightmare of testing to ensure that the patch set doesnt break anything. If history is any guide, the event will soon be followed by headlines that scream about […]

MasterCard International on Wednesday put incentives, tools and education into merchants hands to help them protect consumer data. The new program follows an ongoing parade of consumer data theft, with Reuters reporting the latest heist being the theft of more than 50,000 customer records from the database of Atlantis, a major Bahamas resort. The personal […]

Security and law enforcement professionals are appalled that their personal information was leaked by Guidance Software, a security software and training company they say should have known better than to leave an unencrypted database exposed on the Internet. “I was shocked that a company like Guidance would be this sloppy,” said Peter Garza, CEO of […]