Open-source tools wrest control of personal data
Q&A Adriana Lukas explains how the open-source Mine project will help people regain control of data held about them on the web [16 Nov 2009]
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MoD report calls for better information management
News A Ministry of Defence report says the armed forces need to 'significantly improve' their use of information [18 Nov 2009]
Four steps for sharpening up data management
Analysis The scale of the task stops many firms imposing order on their data, but a few simple steps could help start the process [16 Nov 2009]
BIS moves closer to web rationalisation
News The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills signs a deal with Eduserv for the Sitecore CMS on an unlimited user licence [12 Nov 2009]
BakBone moves into data-archiving software
News The company's NetVault: Archive, a software only-distributed system, is targeted at the growth of unstructured data [30 Oct 2009]
Amazon puts SQL in the cloud
News The company has made MySQL available on demand, going head-to-head with Microsoft's Azure [28 Oct 2009]
BMC Software acquires Tideway Systems
Blog Texas-based BMC Software announced on Monday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire start up IT discovery solutions provider Tideway Systems. In a statement on Monday, BMC said that... [20 Oct 2009]
Oracle taps into Sun tech for faster Exadata
News The database giant has used Sun FlashFire technology in a version of the data-warehousing appliance [16 Sep 2009]
Oracle sends out update to Database 11g
News Oracle Database 11g Release 2 focuses on consolidating hardware and virtualisation, and arrives two years after the database software was originally launched [02 Sep 2009]
Microsoft rolls out SQL Azure Database preview
News The database component of Microsoft's cloud platform is now available as a free trial until the service goes fully live in November [19 Aug 2009]
Massive but Agile: next-gen databases prepare for battle
Blog My Economics teacher once told me that if I wanted a job for life, then I should be an undertaker. Demand is always assured, he said. If there were a single database guru out there to deliver the... [29 Jul 2009]
MoJ issues digital-preservation code of practice
News The Ministry of Justice is recommending that public bodies do more to preserve digital records, and is extending the Freedom of Information Act to more organisations [20 Jul 2009]
Oracle hikes some prices by up to 40pc
Blog Oracle has increased the US prices of some of its licences by up to 40 percent, according to reports. The hikes affect a database configuration management pack and processor licences for... [17 Jul 2009]
BMC management tool rides Amazon cloud
News The new BSM platform aims to let companies manage resources from internal datacentres and Amazon's EC2 cloud services via a single console [17 Jul 2009]
Symantec backup gets client dedupe
News The next update of NetBackup will add deduplication at the client, which should allow users to cut both storage and network bandwidth needs, according to Symantec [07 Jul 2009]
NoSQL and the monster mutation
Blog Over in San Francisco yesterday, the brand-new NoSQL movement held its first public meeting. 150 bitwranglers from outfits large and small absorbed ten presentations about how to handle data in the... [03 Jul 2009]
Lotus Symphony gets some OOXML support
News IBM has said it believes support for importing documents in Microsoft's office format could help convince large organisations to drop Office altogether [19 Jun 2009]
Sitecore Online Marketing Suite
Preview Sitecore has built a companion suite for its content management system that integrates web analytics, profiling, campaign management, segmentation and personalisation. [04 Jun 2009]
Group aims to keep MySQL healthy
News One of MySQL's co-founders has started up a consortium to act as an industry hub for MariaDB, his enterprise-grade branch of MySQL, in the wake of Oracle's takeover of Sun [15 May 2009]
IBM launches System S stream computing
News System S is a business analytics tool, built following five years of research into the real-time analysis of large amounts of unstructured business or scientific data [14 May 2009]
Data-sharing failures cause real loss of trust
Comment The real threats to increased data sharing by government departments are not legal impediments, but poor information management, says David Clarke [30 Apr 2009]
IBM's latest DB2 woos Oracle customers
News The company has released new versions of its DB2 database and InfoSphere Warehouse with an eye to picking up Oracle customers [23 Apr 2009]
No welcome for Oracle from Ingres
Blog Database supplier Ingres, an Oracle competitor, has not exactly welcomed the news that its rival has just grown even bigger with the acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Ingres is, like MySQL, an open... [23 Apr 2009]
Microsoft details changes to SQL Data Services
News The company's development team reveals more details of the fully hosted service option for SQL Data Services, first announced last month [11 Mar 2009]
Microsoft rethinks SQL Server strategy
Blog Microsoft is having a re-think about its SQL Server strategy and in particular about what it wants to do with SQL Data Services. Part of the company’s Azure services platform, SQL Data Services,... [27 Feb 2009]
Accenture launches mobile-service framework
News Enterprise mobile services and cloud connectivity are on the menu for Accenture customers [18 Feb 2009]
ZManda puts SME backup in the cloud
Blog ZManda on Monday launched cloud computing-based backup and recovery software for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). ZMands Cloud Backup (ZCB) is designed to be easy to configure and... [17 Feb 2009]
Amazon lowers cloud costs
Blog From the first of February users of Amazon’s CloudFront will find the cost of the cloud computing application has dropped. On Friday, Amazon said that the cost of transferring data around the... [30 Jan 2009]
The rise of the column-based database
Blog I always get the feeling that I need to tread carefully when talking about the relationship between developers and DBAs and that there might be some sense of hostility between the two based upon... [07 Nov 2008]
We launched!
Blog You are now looking at the all-new ZDNet UK, and although the paint may be a bit wet in places, we think it's a massive improvement on what went before. We'll touch up any bits we missed in the... [30 Oct 2006]
