"databases" news, interviews, and features

News about databases

• Aussie partners Powerhealth and Blue Crystal push out new Oracle database hospital service

  Wants to push out to 1000 hospitals worldwide to help with billing

• IBM partners to make mainframes more mainstream

  The company is working with Suse and Canonical to expand its offerings

• Oracle's new 'PULA' license promises unlimited database use in perpetuity

  'We have seen them in the wild,' one consultant confirms

• Amazon cuts cost of running Oracle's database in its cloud

  The announcement is the latest move by Amazon to make its RDS service more attractive

• UK government reportedly working to end its reliance on Oracle

  The request is 'bad advice,' says one analyst

• SAP gives SQL Anywhere a fresh IoT injection

  Version 17 can tailor its performance to a wide variety of IoT platforms

Features about databases

• Virtualizing Oracle software: Don't pay for what you don't need

  Moving Oracle databases to virtual infrastructure may not result in software savings. Here's why, and what you can do about it.

• In-memory technologies move databases to real time

  Microsoft and Pivotal join a growing field of in-memory data providers

• SAP's Q2: The hot topics

  Cloud software growth, HANA, rival Oracle and the global economy will be in the spotlight

• Oracle and Salesforce.com's love-fest: The ripple effects

  The companies' partnership has implications for Database 12c, rival vendors like Workday and both Oracle and Salesforce.com customers

• SAP in 2013: Five things to watch

  HANA news could dominate the early weeks of the new year

• No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam

  But can enterprises take open-source alternatives Hadoop, Voldemort seriously?