Category: Technology
-
January 2011 Oracle Critical Patch Update Released
It’s that time of the year again: January 2011 Oracle Critical Patch Update Released. People using OEM Grid Control on 11g versions and people using RAC on 10g and newer are vulnerable to remote vulnerabilities not requiring authentication, so again quite a serious CPU. Go and patch!
By
·
-
NoSQL Tapes
Check out the NoSQL Tapes video interview series, they’ve released their first few recordings on hBase, Graphs, Dynamo, MapReduce etc, with more to come. Via the NoSQL Databases Blog.
By
·
-
NoSQL Consolidation
Will there be consolidation or proliferation in the NoSQL space in 2011? Some people just refuse to bet, and tell us that there will be both: NoSQL – consolidating and proliferating in 2011. And all that with good reason, since we’ve seen the same going on in Linux too: consolidation on a few key commercial…
By
·
-
Five Predictions for your Database in 2011
Xeround are making the future look like it’s just waiting for them in Five Predictions for your Database in 2011. But that’s not surprising, given that they’ve chosen to work on Cloud DB technology because they think it’s hot. These are the three good ones: Cloud DB goes far beyond just moving standard RDBMS into…
By
·
-
Looking backwards over a decade of Microsof BI
Andrew Fryer is Looking backwards over a decade of Microsof BI. And while a lot has changed on the technology stack, he feels that the requirements for BI professionals is still the same. I guess it’ll be a while until my dream of a real AI being able to understand what we want without us…
By
·
-
Machine Generated Data
Curt Monash has been trying to define Machine Generated Data (but Daniel Abadi doesn’t fully agree) because machine generated data is what’ll be fuelling a lot of the future growth of DB systems. Understanding MGD and its growth pattern will help design next gen DBMS. Funny enough a recent Economist piece, It’s a smart world,…
By
·
-
Architecting A Database Archiving Solution
Julie Lockner has a series on Architecting A Database Archiving Solution up on the Informatica Perspectives Blog. Project owners who have done their research understand why they need an archiving solution: either to address performance degradation or increased costs (or both) due to uncontrolled data volume growth in their production databases. If that sounds familiar…
By
·
-
2011 Predictions
This is the time of the year where everybody is speculating about the next year, so here’s a quick wrap-up of the Data industry’s predictions, in no particular order: TDWI Ramon Chen of RainStor Curt Monash of DBMS2 Noel Yuhanna of Forrester RainStor Informatica Progress DataDirect Riverlogic Steve Sarsfield of Talend That should give you…
By
·
-
Sharding With SQL Azure
Microsoft’s announcement of a new whitepaper about Sharding With SQL Azure reminded me that MS is very good about documenting everything around SQL Azure, and there are a lot of excellent whitepapers for all aspects of SQL Azure. Go read them if you’re interested!
By
·
-
Oracle Direct NFS Clonedb Feature
Kevin Closson introduces us to the Oracle 11g Direct NFS Clonedb Feature in a mini-series (part 1.5). Sounds very interesting from what I hear. And I wonder if this is a(nother) sign of Oracle going against NetApp, i.e. maybe even a sign of soon to be announced features or products that will further de-value NetApp…
By
·