Chris Kanaracus

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SAP adds in-memory analytics to IBM database

The two heavy weights join forces against rival Oracle and its Exadata platform, while touting benchmarks for HANA on Big Blue hardware

Some Oracle customers may soon pay higher support fees

A number of major Oracle releases will soon enter extended and sustaining support, leading to higher costsrn

IBM shoots verbal arrows at Oracle in middleware spat

Big Blue released new SPECjEnterprise 2010 benchmarking statistics on Friday, claiming it "has proven 76 percent higher performance than Oracle overall"

Teradata acquires Aster Data, boosts ‘big data’ wares

Plans to buy data warehousing and analtyics startup Aster Data Systems continues a run of consolidation in the market for technology that can process ever-growing amounts of data

New community marketplace seeks cloud developers

Appirio is taking a page from TopCoder with CloudSpokes, a competitive marketplace for cloud developers

Database gurus tackle cloud computing challenges

The New England Database Summit organized by MIT looks at some of the unique requirements for the dynamic provisioning of database resources in the cloud

SAP StreamWork now supports OpenSocial standards

The Germany software vendor adds support for the OpenSocial standard, in an aggressive move to pursue integration with third-party apps

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