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• October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07

  International Securities Exchange improves market data system

  The International Securities Exchange has launched the ISE Depth of Market Feed to improve trading efficiency.

• October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07

  Image database is latest technology added to border control platform

  Immigration minister Liam Byrne last week unveiled a £50,000 image-based database system that associates fingerprints, a visa and a unique passport number with an individual. The system is the latest plank in the government's £400m e-Borders border ...

• October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07

  Enterprises reject ripping out data warehouses

  Clear majority of enterprises favour incremental augmentation over rip and replace solutions for data warehouse platforms

• October 14, 2007 14 Oct'07

  Oracle patch update to contain 51 flaw fixes

  Oracle's Critical Patch Update will address 51 fixes, addressing critical holes in Oracle database 10g, Application Server, E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft Enterprise software.

• October 14, 2007 14 Oct'07

  Copan adds data deduplication to Maid

  Copan is claiming that with new support for FalconStor's data deduplication in its virtual tape library, it can support up to 6Pbytes in 10 cubic feet of space.

• October 10, 2007 10 Oct'07

  Net-A-Porter expands MySQL use

  Online fashion retailer, Net-A-Porter has expanded its use of the open source database, MySQL, to improve searching on its website.

• October 10, 2007 10 Oct'07

  Data disk pioneers get Nobel award

  This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg for their discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance in the retrieval of data from hard disks.

• October 05, 2007 05 Oct'07

  Midlands Co-op automates processes with EDI

  The Midlands Co-operative Society has improved the speed and accuracy of processing orders, delivery notes and invoices by implementing a managed electronic data interchange (EDI) service.

• October 01, 2007 01 Oct'07

  Large firms clamour for data deduplication

  Users at Storage Decisions from large companies say they need to reduce backup data that's out of control, but have had trouble finding products that fit their requirements.

• September 28, 2007 28 Sep'07

  Oracle, Dell and EMC join forces to ease firms’ data warehouse deployments

  Oracle has joined forces with Dell and EMC to help customers more easily acquire and implement data warehouse systems.

• September 26, 2007 26 Sep'07

  Firms targeted by green datacentre initiative

  The Business Performance Management (BPM) Forum has launched the Lean & Green initiative to promote green datacentres among CIOs.

• September 21, 2007 21 Sep'07

  Oracle enhances business process analysis

  Oracle has announced the general availability of its enhanced Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite, featuring closed-loop support to improve collaboration between business analysts and IT.

• September 21, 2007 21 Sep'07

  Esure saves time managing websites using Oracle system

  Online insurance firm Esure is spending 20% less time managing its external websites by deploying Oracle Enterprise Content Management.

• September 20, 2007 20 Sep'07

  Cardiff University improves efficiency with database system

  Cardiff University's Department of Pathology has installed a database system that has enabled them to easily store, extract and analyse complicated data.

• September 19, 2007 19 Sep'07

  Oracle updates Microsoft database migration tool

  Oracle has released the latest version of its free workbench tool to aid users wanting to migrate Microsoft databases to its own Oracle Database 11g.

• September 16, 2007 16 Sep'07

  Fisheries nets a handy data-capture tool

  Digital pens are enabling fishery protection officers across the North East of England to fill in catch monitoring forms on the quayside or at sea and file the information directly to a central database.

• September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

  Norfolk police gains flexible info management with unified data warehouse

  Norfolk Constabulary has gone to Fujitsu Services for the deployment of an Operational Data Warehouse (ODW) to deliver more flexible data management and cost savings.

• September 12, 2007 12 Sep'07

  Comtec Enterprises backs up datacentre with hydrogen fuel cell

  Comtec Enterprises has backed up its datacentre power supply with a hydrogen fuel cell to save on space, eradicate downtime and reduce its carbon footprint.

• September 11, 2007 11 Sep'07

  Police to reopen 4000 cold cases with DNA database

  The UK government is to spend a further £350,000 to review 4,000 "cold case" sex crimes using advanced DNA analysis techniques.

• September 10, 2007 10 Sep'07

  Datacentre inefficiency a major problem at enterprises

  Datacentre inefficiency is still a major problem in many enterprises, despite the availability of standard technologies to ease problems.

• September 03, 2007 03 Sep'07

  Structuring data for business advantage

  Data management is an opportunity, not a burden

• August 30, 2007 30 Aug'07

  Improvement Service in Scotland tenders personal licence database

  The Improvement Service in Scotland has put out to tender a new National Personal License Database, which will cover the sale of alcohol.

• August 30, 2007 30 Aug'07

  Critical flaw found in Oracle developer tool

  A popular tool used by Oracle developers contains a critical flaw that could be used by an attacker to compromise a system.

• August 22, 2007 22 Aug'07

  Essex police streamlines data requests with ABM

  Essex Police has deployed new software from ABM to more efficiently manage its requests for data to aid investigations.

• August 21, 2007 21 Aug'07

  Leeds & Bradford pathology service gets central data back up

  Leeds & Bradford Hospitals' Pathology Service has centralised its data back up with EVault's InfoStage to cope with a massive increase in the amount of data it holds. It also hopes to cut the costs associated with data management.

• August 10, 2007 10 Aug'07

  Sales Funnel boost from new Reach Force CRM

  ReachForce, a worldwide provider of OnDemand Data Services, has launched a new application for CRM designed to deliver insight into an organisation's sales funnel.

• August 03, 2007 03 Aug'07

  UK police DNA database the biggest in the world, according to report

  The UK police holds more than four million DNA records, according to the annual report of the National DNA Database, published last month. This makes it the world's biggest DNA database by far.

• July 26, 2007 26 Jul'07

  Arnotts streamlines stock with £4.7m Oracle roll-out

  Irish retailer Arnotts is spending £4.7m on an implementation of Oracle's Retail application suite to streamline its procurement and reduce the stock it needs to hold in store.

• July 25, 2007 25 Jul'07

  HSBC: datacentre management ‘not easy to achieve’

  HSBC will install software from Aperture Technologies to manage capacity planning for its datacentre operations worldwide.

• July 23, 2007 23 Jul'07

  Regus selects windfarm data centre

  Regus, the managed offices company, has reduced the carbon footprint of its datacentres using Smartbunker's zero-carbon data-hosting services.

• July 23, 2007 23 Jul'07

  11g to give BI benefits says Gartner

  Increased performance, enhanced manageability and stronger security of 11g will drive higher-than-normal early adoption says Gartner.

• July 22, 2007 22 Jul'07

  BT begins enterprise resource planning standardisation plan

  BT is undertaking a global enterprise resource planning project to provide a standard way for classifying data across its finance management reporting division.

• July 22, 2007 22 Jul'07

  Fish4 hooks £2m saving by moving database in-house

  Recruitment site Fish4.co.uk has saved £2m in less than 12 months by moving its hosted database in-house.

• July 19, 2007 19 Jul'07

  John Lewis takes long view for datacentre efficiencies

  The IT department of the John Lewis Partnership has told other parts of the business to forecast their IT needs a year in advance to help control spiralling demands for datacentre capacity.

• July 19, 2007 19 Jul'07

  BT chooses Optim to manage data

  BT has implemented Optim software from data management company Princeton Softech to cope with spiralling data volumes generated by thousands of daily support calls.

• July 17, 2007 17 Jul'07

  Durham council uses Ordnance Survey to optimise transport services

  Durham County Council is using transport data from Ordnance Survey to boost the efficiency of a range of transport services.

• July 11, 2007 11 Jul'07

  Oracle launches Database 11g

  Oracle has launched Oracle Database 11g, the next version of its main database platform.

• July 06, 2007 06 Jul'07

  Business Objects completes Inxight acquisition

  Business Objects has closed the acquisition of privately-held Inxight Software, a provider of software solutions for unstructured information discovery, including text analytics, federated search, and data visualisation.

• July 05, 2007 05 Jul'07

  BASF improves database performance through standardisation

  BASF has consolidated and harmonised its Oracle databases to cut costs and improve operations at its European businesses.

• July 02, 2007 02 Jul'07

  SAP admits inappropriate downloading of Oracle files

  SAP today admitted its US subsidiary TomorrowNow downloaded Oracle fixes and support documents inappropriately, but denied it ever had access to Oracle’s material.

• June 28, 2007 28 Jun'07

  Optimise your data delivery system

  Whether your database is Oracle, SQL Server , DB2, MySQL, or Ingres, you want it to perform as well as it can.

• June 19, 2007 19 Jun'07

  Database market now worth £8bn

  The worldwide relational database management systems (RDBMS) market totalled £8bn in 2006, a 14.2% increase on 2005, said analyst Gartner.

• June 15, 2007 15 Jun'07

  Mainstream virtualisation requires new IT processes

  Companies that use virtualised datacentres must employ strategies and tools to manage them if they are to deliver savings, said a Forrester Research analyst last week.

• June 14, 2007 14 Jun'07

  MySQL goes up a Gumtree

  The Gumtree.com community website is standardising on the open source MySQL Enterprise database platform to support its rapid growth and scalability requirements.

• June 08, 2007 08 Jun'07

  Council cuts pest control costs and improves service with Oracle CRM

  Electronic customer management replaces paper-based system

• June 05, 2007 05 Jun'07

  Police issue £600m tender for database

  The National Policing Improvement Authority has issued a tender worth up to £600m for a database system to house the Police National Database (PND).

• May 25, 2007 25 May'07

  Virtual models point way to datacentre efficiencies

  Datacentre provider Liebert is using 3D imaging software to help its clients, which include several large financial institutions, improve the efficiency of their datacentres

• May 23, 2007 23 May'07

  Canon improves supply chain accuracy through ERP

  Canon’s consumer division in Europe has improved the accuracy of supply chain planning by 20% after it extended its Oracle ERP system.

• May 16, 2007 16 May'07

  Virgin Media replaces Oracle with Netezza

  Virgin Media has dumped an Oracle system to analyse customer data, and will instead use a Netezza data warehouse platform.

• May 11, 2007 11 May'07

  Fabric Warehouse retailer selects EDI

  Fabric Warehouse, the specialist fabric retailer with 40 stores nationwide, has selected a new electronic data interchange (EDI) system to improve its operations.

• May 09, 2007 09 May'07

  Kraft taps Epos data to plot demand

  Kraft Foods has struck deals with 10 retailers to receive daily data feeds from their electronic point of sale systems to enable it to plan product quantities more accurately.

• May 03, 2007 03 May'07

  SAS chooses Tibco service bus

  Scandinavian airline SAS is using Tibco's enterprise service bus software to help share and re-use new applications, data and services with legacy applications.

• May 02, 2007 02 May'07

  Oracle expands content management offering

  Oracle has launched Oracle Universal Content Management 10g Release 3 to expand its enterprise content management offering (ECM).

• May 01, 2007 01 May'07

  Ofgem upgrade to improve data access

  Ofgem, the regulator for the gas and electricity markets, has selected Parity to construct a new document management system and website to improve its operations.

• April 30, 2007 30 Apr'07

  Lindy revives floppy with external USB drive

  Lindy Electronics has launched an external USB floppy disc drive to help users access data on discs using their floppy-less laptops and desktops.

• April 30, 2007 30 Apr'07

  MySQL and IBM integrate databases

  MySQL and IBM have announced a joint technology and reseller agreement to bring support for the MySQL open source database to the IBM System i business computing platform.

• April 03, 2007 03 Apr'07

  Cambridge University astronomers mine skies with grid and intelligent database

  An astronomy organisation linked to Cambridge University has deployed one of the industry’s most powerful analytical databases, alongside utility or grid computing, to accelerate the processing and classification of extremely large volumes of ...

• March 26, 2007 26 Mar'07

  What are some of the biggest challenges with unstructured data?

  By far, the volume of data has to be the biggest challenge...

• March 26, 2007 26 Mar'07

  Your shout: data sharing and hospital phones

  Have your say at computerweekly.com

• March 23, 2007 23 Mar'07

  Oracle sues SAP over 'stolen' software

  Oracle is continuing its war against SAP by suing it for alleged software copyright theft.

• March 21, 2007 21 Mar'07

  Oracle posts buoyant results

  Oracle has posted a 35% increase in third quarter net profits to £542m.

• March 19, 2007 19 Mar'07

  Informatica hooks up on-demand data

  Informatica has launched an on-demand service that integrates software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications with internal databases.

• March 15, 2007 15 Mar'07

  Oracle drives rise of open source embedded database

  Hot skills: Supplier builds on functionality of Berkeley DB

• March 14, 2007 14 Mar'07

  Release 3 of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g ships

  Oracle has announced the general availability of release 3 of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g.

• March 03, 2007 03 Mar'07

  Sybase pays dividends as City's database of choice

  Hot skills: ASE has small but lucrative share of the market

• March 02, 2007 02 Mar'07

  CMS powers energy provider online

  npower will deploy an Oracle content management system (CMS) to offer customers online billing, meter reading alerts and news about their latest deals.

• March 01, 2007 01 Mar'07

  Firms' data warehousing plans hit by data volume

  Increases in data volumes are having a negative impact on enterprises’ data warehouse programmes, according to a survey from PMP Research.

• February 27, 2007 27 Feb'07

  Backup vendors refresh open source products

  BakBone and Zmanda announce updates to their products this week meant to take advantage of growth in the number of enterprises using open source applications.

• February 26, 2007 26 Feb'07

  How Oracle skills can be the base for a good career

  Oracle is a relational database management system that runs on more than 80 platforms. The Oracle database is Oracle's flagship product: the current version, Oracle10g, was introduced in 2005.

• February 26, 2007 26 Feb'07

  Staffordshire postpones SAP Duet implementation

  Insufficient datacentre power has brought one of the first implementations of SAP Duet to a standstill.

• February 23, 2007 23 Feb'07

  IBM platform convergence is a step closer with DB2 9

  Hot skills: Original relational database evolves for integration

• February 12, 2007 12 Feb'07

  PostgreSQL opens way for bespoke database function

  Hot skills Open source approach encourages customisation

• February 07, 2007 07 Feb'07

  Unisys and Oracle join forces to aid enterprise modernisation

  Unisys has joined forces with Oracle in a global alliance to aid enterprise modernisation.

• February 01, 2007 01 Feb'07

  Oracle ships flagship ERP system

  Oracle has announced general availability of the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.

• January 31, 2007 31 Jan'07

  APCC's results are a mixed bag

  Datacentre technology provider American Power Conversion Corporation (APCC) has reported mixed results for its third quarter ended 24 September 2006.

• January 26, 2007 26 Jan'07

  Sizeable user base makes MySQL useful skill to have

  Open source database has 44% share of the market

• January 26, 2007 26 Jan'07

  Autonomy meaning module provides insight into enterprise data

  Autonomy Corporation has unveiled its Meaning Analytics Warehouse, a new module for its IDOL data intelligence platform that can perform bulk data analysis and mining by understanding the concepts, context and patterns contained in the information.

• December 12, 2006 12 Dec'06

  Oracle users warned of new threat to firms' data

  A security expert has given details of a new class of attack on Oracle databases that could expose enter­prise data to attackers.

• December 07, 2006 07 Dec'06

  A system so good that Morrisons bought it twice

  Supermarket group Morrisons has bought a database to store product information on its own-brand food range for a second time.

• December 06, 2006 06 Dec'06

  DSM cleans up SAP data to save time and money

  DSM Nutritional Products has implemented the DataFlux tool to verify and validate data in its SAP R/3 systems.

• December 01, 2006 01 Dec'06

  More firms centralising IT delivery

  More than 80% of businesses are centralising IT delivery into data­centres in a bid to increase efficiency and cut costs, a survey of 100 senior IT executives has revealed.

• November 30, 2006 30 Nov'06

  Analyst uses data tool to enable growth

  Retail analyst Dunnhumby is using a tool from SAS to automate some of its data cleansing and analysis. It says the move will enable speedier corporate growth by minimising training requirements.

• November 29, 2006 29 Nov'06

  Firms centralise IT delivery into datacentres

  Nearly eight out of 10 businesses are centralising IT delivery into datacentres in a bid to increase efficiency and cut costs, new research has shown.

• November 29, 2006 29 Nov'06

  Microsoft beats Oracle on security

  In a new whitepaper, security guru David Litchfield of Next Generation Security explains why Microsoft has a tighter grasp on its database defenses than Oracle.

• November 14, 2006 14 Nov'06

  PeopleSoft and JDE users voice doubts

  Users have expressed confidence in Oracle’s ability to sustain Siebel’s product line, according to the UK Oracle User Group’s 2006 survey of its members ahead of the group’s annual meeting in Birmingham this week.

• November 09, 2006 09 Nov'06

  Sybase acquisition expands mobile data services

  Sybase has completed the acquisition of Mobile 365 for $417m (£225m) to extend its corporate mobile services.

• November 07, 2006 07 Nov'06

  Humberside Police deploys ‘fuzzy matching’ to fight crime

  Humberside Police force has deployed Informatica’s Data Quality software to monitor, clean up and enrich the information it uses to fight crime.

• November 07, 2006 07 Nov'06

  Oracle speaks for Young Enterprise

  Young Enterprise, a voluntary group established to encourage young people to take an interest in business, has upgraded its membership systems to an Oracle database to manage its operations until at least 2010.

• November 06, 2006 06 Nov'06

  Sage to standardise on MySQL database

  Accountancy software supplier Sage is standardising on the open source MySQL database, with future software releases using an embedded MySQL database.

• November 03, 2006 03 Nov'06

  'Honeymoon is over' say Oracle users

  Preliminary results from the UK Oracle User Group 2006 survey have revealed confidence in Oracle’s ability to support the acquired Siebel business, but there is a drop in overall satisfaction among PeopleSoft and JD Edwards users.

• October 31, 2006 31 Oct'06

  Study reveals inaccuracies in NHS data

  NHS data on patients’ hospital treatments is not accurate enough to be used in monitoring individual doctors’ performance, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has warned.

• October 31, 2006 31 Oct'06

  Centralised identity management boosts bank efficiency

  Allied Irish Bank (AIB) has implemented Novell’s identity management to provide consistent identity data across connected systems and support setting up new users and access to applications.

• October 26, 2006 26 Oct'06

  Sage embeds open-source database into software

  The Sage Group has signed a global agreement with MySQL AB which enables Sage to embed the open source MySQL database into its product portfolio.

• October 23, 2006 23 Oct'06

  BEA Systems launched Aqualogic BPM Suite 5.7 -- and other news in brief

  Brief takes on the week's news

• October 19, 2006 19 Oct'06

  NHS Direct creates virtual contact centre

  NHS Direct has consolidated all its five million patient records into one single database and upgraded its call centres across the UK to create a “virtual contact centre”.

• October 18, 2006 18 Oct'06

  Oracle improves cash management system

  Oracle has improved the features in its cash management system, which is part of PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9.

• October 18, 2006 18 Oct'06

  Oracle to offer management packs for Enterprise Manager 10g

  Oracle plans to deliver advanced application management, monitoring, and service level capabilities over the coming months, as part of its Enterprise Manager 10g product.

• October 16, 2006 16 Oct'06

  Oracle fixes 101 flaws

  Attackers could exploit 45 of the 101 flaws remotely without a username or password. Meanwhile, the new CPU offers more detail on the number of flaws patched and their severity.

• October 09, 2006 09 Oct'06

  Asset tracker delivers cooler TNT datacentre

  TNT is using datacentre asset tracking software to determine the impact of new hardware installations.

• October 09, 2006 09 Oct'06

  Tera chip prototype challenges developers

  Intel has built a prototype chip with 80 cores that can exchange data at 1Tbyte per second.