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Cutting-Edge IT on a Cruise Ship

When Frank Finch arrived at the Alstom-Chantiers de lAtlantique shipyard in Sainte-Nazaire, France, last September, the Queen Mary 2 was almost ready to head...

Data Management: Getting Clean

CHALLENGE Keeping your companys data clean isnt a set-it-and-forget-it project. As long as there has been data, there have been errors. But at least in the...

Sybase Makes Push for Mobile Data

Staking its fortunes on its early sprint to help customers seize control of increasing volumes of mobile data, Sybase Inc. is crafting an overarching...

Sybase CEO Chen Embraces the Mobile Enterprise

Conceding a widening gap between his company and major large-scale relational DBMS vendors, Sybase Inc. Chairman and CEO John Chen understands the time is...

Users Weigh In on Oracles Patch Plan

Oracle recently confirmed that it is postponing the release of current security fixes while it constructs a monthly patch roll-up program. But do regular...

Mayo Clinic Taps IBM Tools to Mine Patient Data

In an effort to improve overall patient care, the Mayo Clinic is tunneling deep into its data archives to link patients genomic profile, personal...

IPS Guards Oracle Databases

Security researchers Mark and David Litchfield have spent much of the last few years poring over lines of code looking for vulnerabilities in enterprise...

Oracle to Patch on Monthly Schedule

Oracle Corp. has explained its failure to release patches for multiple security flaws, confirming that the release delay is caused by the fact that...

Oracle Opens the Door for Partners to Sell to Top Accounts

Oracle Corp. is cracking open its top North American accounts to allow partners to get their share of the very lucrative pie. Rauline Ochs, group...

Oracles Silence on Database Security Wearing Thin

For a company that boasts of an "unbreakable" database, Oracle sure is being lackadaisical about a nasty clump of critical security flaws that Next-Generation...