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Database software

• April 11, 2017 11 Apr'17

  House of Fraser drops Oracle support to invest in multi-channel retail

  IT departments need to cut costs to reinvest in new projects. House of Fraser has a multi-channel strategy and Oracle support wasn’t strategic

• April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17

  DataWorks 17: Hortonworks promotes maturity of HDP upgrade

  Hadoop distributor leads on an upgrade to its Hortonworks Data Platform at the DataWorks 2017 Summit in Munich

• April 03, 2017 03 Apr'17

  Teradata Universe 17: IntelliFlex 2.0 vaunted as emblem of flexibility

  At its Universe conference in Nice, Teradata announces an upgrade to its MPP IntelliFlex platform in line with what it says is a fresh flexibility towards customers

• March 19, 2017 19 Mar'17

  SAP to invest $200m in United Arab Emirates

  European software maker plans investment to get near customers in the Middle East

• March 16, 2017 16 Mar'17

  Nordea goes beyond what is mandatory for PSD2

  Nordic bank prepares for the introduction of the latest banking regulations through a platform that is open to third parties

• March 16, 2017 16 Mar'17

  Oracle Q3 2016-17 results: cloud revenue up, overall growth 2%

  Oracle’s third-quarter results for fiscal year 2017 show 2% growth in overall revenue, with cloud representing 13% of the total. Executives are bullish on cloud ERP growth prospects

• March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17

  Danish shipping company uses blockchain in IBM partnership

  Maersk and IBM test out the application of blockchain technology to track and manage the paper trail of shipping containers around the world

• March 07, 2017 07 Mar'17

  Country as a service becoming reality in Estonia

  Programme to help foreigners set up businesses in Estonia through virtual residency is gathering pace

• February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17

  Santander bank to work with IBM developing mobile apps for staff

  Santander bank wants to make its staff more productive through mobile apps, which it will create alongside IBM

• February 24, 2017 24 Feb'17

  Number of people hit by professional financial cyber attack grows after lull

  Kaspersky Labs reports that the number of people hit by financial cyber attack grew in 2016 after falling in the previous two years

• February 21, 2017 21 Feb'17

  Oracle fleshes out APAC cloud strategy

  Enterprise IT giant Oracle is looking to better serve APAC customers with data sovereignty requirements

• February 17, 2017 17 Feb'17

  Gartner predicts BI market will jump 7.3% to $18.3bn in 2017

  So-called “modern BI and analytics platforms” outpace traditional business intelligence, but rate will slow down

• February 14, 2017 14 Feb'17

  Diablo targets flash in DIMM slots at in-memory apps

  Apps such as Apache Spark need memory. Diablo has changed tack to provide flash as memory in DIMM slots that acts as cache behind regular DRAM so apps don’t have to hit disk storage

• February 14, 2017 14 Feb'17

  Oracle expands cloud offerings in Australia

  Tech giant Oracle will deliver platform and infrastructure services through its Sydney datacentre

• February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17

  Autodata turns to big data to predict vehicle failures

  Vehicle data company sees 30% jump in revenue after moving to open source software and opening its data to garages, insurers and parts companies