Larry Ellison's assault on the data storage market is officially under way.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology will soon start building a AU$14 million storage facility to satisfy its expanding data requirements for the next five years.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid. The Exadata programmable storage server aims to put database intelligence next to each drive.
Retail distributor Metcash, owner of IGA distribution and IGA Fresh, this week revealed it had migrated to Oracle's Database 11g from 10.2g earlier this year.
Database specialist Sybase has launched version 15 of its flagship Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) product in Australia, touting several new features such as the ability to support several terabytes of data.
Oracle's upcoming 10g database is intended to stave off competition from Microsoft in the midsize-business market, Oracle executives said Thursday.
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SAP is the first vendor to tie multiple components together by common metadata with NetWeaver, which Meta Group believes will increasingly be adopted for broad technical architecture usage.
Distributed computing, which harnesses the power of multiple CPUs, grew out of scientists' and academics' needs for processing power, but it is rapidly developing commercial applications. ZDNet Australia examines the power grid.
Realising it could take three months to restore critical servers after a disaster prompted Parks Victoria to become one of the first large organisations in Australia to adopt an on-demand model for its backup and disaster recovery
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