"To cloud or not to cloud" sounds kind of Shakespearean in tone and is a legitimate question every IT organization faces when looking to simplify operations and deliver services. But really, this is ...

The big news in database security last week was Application Security Inc.'s Database Security Survey (PDF). Unisphere conducted the research project, surveying 761 SQL Server database professionals, ...

Meeting up with seasoned database security and IT operations teams always keeps me on my toes. The RSA Conference is one such event where I get to meet people who have been doing database security far ...

TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works. In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help with the ...

IBM today announced a deal to acquire Informix Corp.’s database business for $1 billion in cash, ending eight months of speculation about the fate of the troubled Informix operations and potentially ...

A decision is only as good as the data used to make it. When a slight delay can result in significant consequences, milliseconds matter. Lags or inaccuracies in data processing and communication can ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. debuted a collection of new features at its re:Invent event today that will make it easier for enterprises to run database environments on its cloud. There’s a growing trend ...

Since the term’s inception in the late 2000s, “DevOps” is by far the most common approach to product development. During the last 15 years, DevOps processes have evolved to new speeds and scales, with ...

Timescale is looking to further advance its namesake open-source database platform with new AI capabilities announced today. Timescale was founded in 2017 as a time series database (TSDB) technology ...

There’s been a lot of discussion recently about autonomous databases, which offer the promise of keeping database systems stable and performant while alleviating much of the tuning and configuration ...

The field of database administration is far from glamorous. Even within the uncompromisingly geeky domain of information technology, database administration would be among the last fields picked for a ...