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Author: Markus Perdrizat

  • Intel’s McAfee Acquires Sentrigo To Boost Database Security Offerings

    Intel’s McAfee Acquires Sentrigo To Boost Database Security Offerings. That’s not surprising, given that Sentrigo has the best product in that space. Oracle already acquired Secerno last year, so other vendors now have to build their portfolio. Dave DeWalt, president of McAfee said of the acquisition: McAfee is continuing to broaden its security portfolio to…

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  • Time to say goodbye to SQL Server 2005

    Check this blog by MS evangelist Andrew Fryer: Farewell old friend–time to say goodbye to SQL Server 2005. On April 12, 2011, SQL Server 2005 will transition from Mainstream Support to Extended Support, meaning UBS will have no more free support for specific fixes. Or as Microsoft puts it (click the 2005 tab on that…

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  • Installing and Maintaining PowerPivot for SharePoint

    Installing and Maintaining PowerPivot for SharePoint: From farm options and security to data sources and maintenance, the options you choose are critical to using PowerPivot in your organization This is a follow-up to last year’s article about PowerPivot in the Enterprise.

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  • Comparing SQL Server with SQL Azure

    A good one, if you want to make your application future proof, as MS is working hard to bring stand-alone SQL Server in line with SQL Azure for future releases, and therefore is giving up on some of the concepts available in SQL Server today: Comparing SQL Server with SQL Azure. SQL Azure Database is…

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  • A Vision of the Future Cloud Data Center

    I’m cleaning up my blog and stumbled upon this draft… it’s still relevant, so here you go! Cloudbzz posts their Vision of the Future Cloud Data Center, which is well lined up with what I’m expecting to see.

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  • BYO Oracle RAC on EC2

    Former work mate Jeremy Schneider is always the first to look at interesting ways to use Oracle RAC – now he’s considering to run a BYO Oracle RAC on Amazon EC2. I kinda defeats the purpose of cloud, but it’s still fun the play with. So what’s the right way to use the cloud for…

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  • Oracle Database Firewall

    Oracle recently released it’s Oracle Database Firewall. [The] release of Oracle Database Firewall is the culmination of the company’s  acquisition of database security vendor Secerno last year. The product  creates a defensive perimeter around databases by looking at SQL  statements sent to the database through the wire to determine whether to  pass, log, alert, block,…

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  • MongoDB 1.8 Released, Supports Journaling for Fast Crash Recovery

    MongoDB 1.8 Released, Supports Journaling for Fast Crash Recovery. See more on the MondoDB Journaling page. Good stuff by the Mongo guys, bringing it one step closer to Enterprise readiness.

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  • Survey Shows Poor Performance of Cloud Applications Delays Cloud Adoption

    Check this. Fun the read, quick to forget. Compuware Corporation today announced the findings of a cloud performance survey  conducted by Vanson Bourne. The survey of 677 businesses in North  America and Europe examined the impact application performance has on  cloud application strategy and deployments. The survey reveals that the majority of organizations in both…

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  • Teradata acquiring Aster Data

    This just came in: Teradata acquiring Aster Data. Database consolidation wars is full speed ahead, last month, it was HP acquiring Vertica, last year IBM bought Netezza, and EMC bought Greenplum. So within six months, the four biggest and most promising MPP DB vendors have found a new owner.

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