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$140 million purchase could strengthen Big Blue's position against EMC and HP in helping companies slash storage costs
New BI and reporting features in SQL Server 2008 R2 hit the mark, but other additions leave SQL Server shops wanting more
The project underscores the rivals' complex relationship and stands in contrast to trash talk
The Oracle competitor will let customers run unlimited copies of its MySQL alternative for a flat yearly fee
The brainchild of database luminary Michael Stonebraker is an open-source option for large-scale transaction processing
Sybase IQ and IBM's package of Hadoop now both provide better unstructured data querying capabilities
Get off the treadmill to nowhere. If you don't have long-term, technology-agnostic infrastructure plan, you're inviting waste on a massive scale
The upcoming systems for high-speed analytics could set SAP up to compete against Oracle's Exadata platform
Adding a standby copy of the database doubles the price of Amazon's cloud-based Relational Database Service
SAP is set to pay $5.8 billion for mobile and database technology vendor Sybase, an amount some analysts say is too high