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]
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]
Microsoft researcher stores digital life
Q&A Senior Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell has been recording his life for a decade. He talks to ZDNet about the ideas behind the project, what the future holds, and why he wants a database [12 Feb 2009]
IBM de-duplicates Tivoli
News Tivoli Storage Manager 6 has enhanced scalability, and can handle a billion objects [06 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]
Storage devices get common crypto standard
News A group of tech heavyweights has agreed to use three cryptographic standards for storage hardware in PCs and datacentres, with the promise of making management easier [29 Jan 2009]
Autonomy snaps up Interwoven for £560m
News The Cambridge company known for enterprise search believes purchase of the US software maker will strengthen its compliance reach [22 Jan 2009]
HP extends physical and virtual systems management
News New add-on software applications expand capabilities of the company's software for managing physical and virtual environments [16 Jan 2009]
Amazon opens up SimpleDB to the public
News The database component for Amazon's cloud-computing range of services is now out of its private-beta stage, with the company offering limited free usage for the next six months [01 Dec 2008]
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]
IBM extends solidDB database-accelerator tech
News The company has announced that its database acceleration cache software will soon work with Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and Sybase [28 Oct 2008]
Novell buys datacentre-management services firm
News The open-source company will acquire business-services management company Managed Objects for an undisclosed sum, taking it up against competitors including CA and IBM [15 Oct 2008]
CNET Networks UK award winner: RBS
News Financial Services Technology Project of the Year was won by The Royal Bank of Scotland's Shared Product Opportunity Tool [24 Sep 2008]
Industry releases content-management interop spec
News Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP, EMC, Alfresco and OpenText have released the first draft of their Content Management Interoperability Services specification [11 Sep 2008]
Microsoft finalises SQL Server 2008 code
News The company has released the latest version of its database software to manufacturing [07 Aug 2008]
Drizzle project to trim down MySQL
News The database project is aimed at trimming superfluous functionality from MySQL, creating a smaller, faster version [24 Jul 2008]
- Will Drizzle rain on Sun's MySql - pjc158
lame excuses!
Talkback So, the cost of an event is part of the reason UK prices are doubled? are we to assume this event didn't take place in the US? how about those customers who aren't interested or didn't attend the... [26 Jun 2008]
Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 debuts with Acrobat 9
News The latest version of Acrobat makes it possible to turn multimedia web pages into PDFs, but costs over twice as much in the UK as in the US [25 Jun 2008]
- CS3 = Rip off. - Tim Myers
- lame excuses! - harpless
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]
