Chris Kanaracus

Articles by Chris Kanaracus

Dell buys SecureWorks for IT security services

The company follows up its purchase of storage vendor Compellent with a deal for a network security services firm

Teradata pays $525M for marketing vendor Aprimo

Teradata will combine the software with its own analytics and data warehousing products. What this means for customers

SAP pushes out ‘significant’ patch update

The major update affects SAP Business Suite and NetWeaver. SAP has been taking additional measures to improve the security of its software in light of increased cybercrime attacks against businesses

Oracle will launch MySQL 5.5 GA release

Oracle is expected to launch the general-availability version of MySQL 5.5 during a webcast event this week. Benchmark tests show up to 1,500 per cent performance gains for read-write operations and up to 500 per cent on read-only operations when run on Windows, in contrast to MySQL 5.1

Free version of Chatter available from Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com customers will be able to invite others to use the social app in a familiar Facebook-style

Salesforce.com unveils Database.com

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BMC buys GridApp for cloud database automation

BMC's move follows rival Hewlett-Packard's recent purchase of Stratavia. What this does for BMC

Study: Oracle users have big private cloud plans

Nearly half of respondents are either running, planning or considering some type of private cloud. But many deployments remain nascent, according to the IOUG study

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