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- Alan Bates: The ‘details man’ the Post Office paid the price for ignoring
- Oracle customers complain of cloud coercion
- From consumer to prosumer: Reducing the datacentre industry’s reliance on the national grid
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Why database admins should embrace automation
Managing Editor 25 Jun 2019There are certain functions in database administration, that are good candidates for automation. These are the nuts and bolts of the job - like how to partition the storage, what happens if a disk ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Amazon Neptune: a shot in the arm for the graph database?
Freeform Dynamics 21 Mar 2018Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced its entry to the graph database market at its AWS reINVENT conference in Seattle in November last year. It was a notable announcement for a couple of reasons: it ...
Data Matters
Einstein, Leonardo, Coleman, ClAIre … 18c: what’s in a name?
Business Applications Editor 04 Oct 2017Oracle launched what it has described as the “world’s first autonomous database” at OpenWorld this week in San Francisco. CTO Thomas Kurian said, in the press conference following his keynote at ...
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Computer Weekly Editors Blog
HPE has its day in court, only years too late
Managing Editor 07 Jun 2016HPE's complaint against Oracle is about some pretty old technology. Years ago, HP, as it was then called, worked with Intel to develop a new range of native 64-bit microprocessors, the Itanium.