In his Weekly Update, Andrew Brust, the Gigaom Research research director for data, plays off of the impending delivery of Oracle’s new in-memory database product to look at ‘the convergence of… Read more »
IBM has been all over the media the past few weeks–both pitching its story and fielding brickbats and accolades for its prospects and position in the market. The company has been… Read more »
Wasteful government spending in IT, like government spending in most areas, has resisted significant reform across generations of both people and technology. And so taxpayers should probably not hold their breath… Read more »
In his Weekly Update, Gigaom Research cloud curator David Linthicum has a fair perspective on last week’s BlueMix PaaS announcement from IBM. The pre-release rollout, combined with a same-day announcement of… Read more »
Larry Ellison leads Oracle with a dramatic, and often insightful, flair. Last week it was president Mark Hurd who spoke to Oracle’s strategy and trends in the market. Per usual, Oracle’s… Read more »
The fourth quarter of 2013 found companies grappling to manage the transformation being brought on by cloud, mobile, analytics, and social technologies. Firms must now adapt to all this new technology… Read more »
After something of a tough year for Oracle—with doubters questioning the pace and efficacy of its move to the cloud—the firm came through with a couple of noteworthy developments on the… Read more »
Two prominent announcements of support for OpenStack this week reflect the technology’s growing importance. Oracle has become a sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation, and Dell has expanded its relationship with Red… Read more »
How will enterprise customers and database vendors respond to the proliferation of databases within a Hadoop ecosystem? As discussed in parts one and two, Gigaom analyst George Gilbert sees a confluence… Read more »
Most enterprise databases have come in two basic flavors over the past 25 years: 1) relational databases optimized for transaction processing, and 2) relational databases optimized for data warehousing. But that… Read more »