Lisa Vaas

I just read Baselinemag.coms excellent story on the rising threat posed by bad data thats stored in myriad databases across the land: registries of motor vehicles, insurance firms, marketing companies and other commercial sources, as well as public records such as court documents and licenses. My thoughts? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Know this: Personal […]

Reshuffling its North American sales organization is Oracles latest bid in an ongoing campaign to file down the teeth of its infamously carnivorous sales force. The campaign has taken on new urgency as the database giant seeks to digest its recent acquisitions of PeopleSoft and Retek without scaring off customers or partners. To wit, the […]

Peregrine Systems is smartening up its IT-asset and service management software, making it able to predict which equipment will hiccup by giving the software a shot of data analytics. The company on Tuesday will announce at its Las Vegas Synergy05 users conference a vision its calling Optimal IT. Optimal IT will meld IT asset management, […]

What does Oracles intent to purchase zippy-quick TimesTen Inc., with its real-time, in-memory database technology, mean to you? Plenty, if youre in the financial services industry, if youre looking for real-time access to data for logistics or high-speed transaction support, or if you happen to be the DBMS vendor that was once king of the […]

Oracle and IBM are rolling out new technology to make sure that organizations know whos got their fingers in the data pie. Oracle Corp. on Tuesday released its identity management suite, Oracle Identity Management, which integrates technology it acquired when Oracle purchased Oblix Inc. at the end of March. For its part, IBM also on […]

Oracle Corp.s buying spree continued on Thursday as it announced plans to acquire TimesTen Inc., a maker of real-time data management software that takes information locked in legacy applications and replicates it to a relational database at what customers say is lightning speed. “The TimesTen technologies will be a natural extension of our database and […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Theres this map of downtown San Diego, see, and its got big green dots designating businesses, and you can draw new fiber-optic lines in purple on the map, and presto! You can see how many of those businesses those new fiber lines might be near; you can drill down into Dun & Bradstreet data […]

DataMirror Corp. has rolled out a dynamic operational data store for data warehouses to help companies add new data sources, eliminate performance issues and enable real-time information flow. The Dynamic ODS platform is designed to help businesses get real-time access to production data for BI (business intelligence), BAM (business activity monitoring), or application testing and […]

The open-source community surrounding PostgreSQL is casting a leery eye at newcomer EnterpriseDB, which came out of stealth mode earlier this week with the latest in a string of attempts to commercialize the well-regarded open-source relational database. After all, as Charlie Garry-an expert on databases and a former Meta Group Inc. analyst-puts it, many have […]

MicroOLAP Technologies has updated DBACentral, putting a report engine into its GUI front-end tool for the open-source database MySQL, the company announced on Tuesday. DBACentral for MySQL 1.6 presents a Microsoft Access-like interface for executing database operations. The update will enable users to work with printable data reports, which they can automatically create from within […]

The Oracle security research firm Red Database Security GmbH has found 42 bugs, some serious, in Oracle Corp.s Metalink knowledge base, and determined that its possible to search Oracles bug database for customer e-mails, used configurations, test cases and other sensitive information in a foray similar to “Google hacking.” “Within 42 hours I was able […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft Corp. on Friday rolled out a platform to help governments establish national identity systems. The HP National Identity System is based on Microsofts .Net platform. According to a release from the companies, it goes beyond simple secure identification and authentication, giving government ID systems the ability to be used to access […]