For big businesses, Microsoft has become the cloud-computing provider of choice. Many of these companies, however, still use Oracle databases to run core parts of their business. The two tech giants ...

Snowflake Computing executives, with CEO Bob Muglia wearing the sleeveless vest in the center, gather in the snow. (Snowflake Computing Photo) After establishing a foothold in the cloud-based data ...

The cloud database is a database that has been designed or optimized within the virtualized computing atmosphere. Moreover, placing the database into the cloud can be considered the most useful way to ...

In the wake of the pandemic, one trend that emerged is the need for digitalisation, and this will continue – and even grow – in the future. And, while it’s still not clear exactly what that actual ...

Database administration includes responsibility for ensuring the ongoing operational functionality and efficiency of an organization’s databases and the applications that access those databases.

Yesterday Oracle announced a new online transaction processing database service, finally bringing its key database technology into the cloud. The company, which has been around for over four decades ...

Cloud computing is set to transform the use of databases within enterprises. According to a Database Trends Survey, more than a third of database professionals think that cloud computing is to have ...

From monolithic database servers to no database servers at all. Can the serverless computing paradigm change the landscape for relational databases technologies as well? Serverless computing, a ...

The concept of edge computing is simple. It’s about bringing compute and storage capabilities to the edge, to be in close proximity to devices, applications, and users that generate and consume the ...

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Chairman Ad Bastiaansen founded Waterwatch Cooperative in 2014 to give the estimated 570 million farmers across the globe easy access to information about weather, water supply, and crop conditions. A ...

Cloud computing is a paradigm whereby computational resources such as computers, storage and bandwidth can be rented on a pay-for-what-you-use basis. The cloud's chief advantages are elasticity and ...