Database software
With the volumes of digital data used by businesses growing at exponential rates, having the right information management and database software becomes key to corporate decision-making. While established products such as Oracle, DB2 and Informix remain widely used, open source alternatives such as MySQL and Ingres offer potential alternatives for IT managers. We examine the issues around choosing the right products and strategies for your organisation.
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News
15 Oct 2025
AI will create a better world, says Oracle’s Ellison
Oracle ramped up its plans to lead in all things AI on the opening day of its renamed customer event, AI World, with founder Larry Ellison emphasising AI’s transformative potential Continue Reading
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07 Oct 2025
Nato chooses Oracle to secure battlefield communications
Nato has chosen Oracle and Druid to secure private 5G networks for cyber defence, war gaming and research, using Oracle Cloud and edge technology Continue Reading
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News
06 Jan 2012
Why CIOs must get a handle on their data woes
Businesses are only making use of 5% of the data they collect, according to Forrester Research. Continue Reading
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News
14 Dec 2011
How open data creates new opportunities for the UK
The use of open data could be a critical factor in determining the success or failure of the UK’s growth agenda this report from the business advisory firm Deloitte reveals. Continue Reading
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News
08 Dec 2011
UKtech50: Meet Mike Lynch, the most influential person in UK IT
Mike Lynch, voted as the most influential person in UK IT, doesn’t like to think about challenges, but about opportunities. Continue Reading
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05 Dec 2011
'Big data' technologies emerge to battle large, complex data sets
‘Big data’ technologies that allow the storage, management and analysis of big data are on stream: NoSQL, Hadoop, MapReduce. Mark Whitehorn explains the reasons for their emergence and how they work. Continue Reading
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05 Dec 2011
SAP buys SaaS firm SuccessFactors in $3.4bn deal
Enterprise software company SAP announces a $3.4bn deal to acquire software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider SuccessFactors. Continue Reading
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Opinion
18 Nov 2011
Bridging the information gap
The pace at which modern business tends to move has resulted in a situation where centralised decision-making struggles to keep up. Continue Reading
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News
18 Nov 2011
Special report on EMC
This 8-page special report from Computer Weekly, packed with graphs and diagrams, is essential reading for anyone considering EMC as a supplier. Continue Reading
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News
14 Nov 2011
CIO Interview: IT should drive company innovation, says SAP's Oliver Bussmann
Driving innovation has become one of the key roles of the chief information officer, says Oliver Bussmann, CIO at business software maker SAP. Continue Reading
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Feature
08 Nov 2011
CIO interview: Tony Prestedge, COO, Nationwide
Tony Prestedge took over as COO at Nationwide in 2010, mid-way through a five-year transformation project. He tells Karl Flinders how the company is transforming its business through a £1bn investment in technology, how the IT department changed from a development shop into an integrator Continue Reading
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Feature
08 Nov 2011
CIO interview: Martin Davies, head of technology at Bet365
The success story of £5.4bn-per-year online gambling company Bet365 is nothing to do with luck and everything to do with technology. Continue Reading
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Feature
03 Nov 2011
RightNow: Oracle and next-generation CRM
In his opening keynote presentation at the RightNow Summit 2011 in Newport, Greg Gianforte, RightNow founder and chief executive officer, presented his view of device-aware CRM. Continue Reading
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News
27 Oct 2011
Analysis: What is the secret sauce in SAP's success?
The last major upgrade to SAP's core enterprise resource planning (ERP) product was released in 2005, so how is the company achieving record growth? Warwick Ashford reports Continue Reading
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News
26 Oct 2011
John McCarthy, father of Artificial Intelligence and creator of LISP language, dies aged 84
The artificial intelligence (AI) community is mourning the death of John McCarthy, the US scientist who invented the LISP computer language at the heart of this field of study. Continue Reading
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News
15 Aug 2011
Government must change the way it stores citizens' personal data, calls the EHRC
The government must bring in changes to better protect personal information, calls the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
02 Aug 2011
Review of Visual Studio Lightswitch
A review of Visual Studio Lightswitch, Microsoft's simplified self-service development tool. Continue Reading
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News
02 Aug 2011
Tesco signs eight-year deal to use Microsoft products and services
Tesco has signed a software licensing and services deal with Microsoft aimed at helping improve the retail giant's global productivity and international growth. Continue Reading
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News
18 Jul 2011
Government shelves Co-ordinated Online Record of Electors database to save £11m
The government has shelved plans to create a database of electoral information, in a move estimated to save £11m. Continue Reading
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News
22 Jun 2011
European Commission gives green light to CSC acquisition of beleaguered iSoft
The European Commission (EC) has approved CSC's acquisition of healthcare software maker iSoft. Continue Reading
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News
22 Jun 2011
Police National Database launched containing details of 15 million UK citizens
A national database to allow police forces to share locally held information across the country has been launched by the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA). Continue Reading
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Photo Story
05 May 2011
Oracle JDeveloper review
Tim Anderson finds that Oracle's home-grown tool for Java development, JDeveloper, may have a traditional feel, but its smart editor and productivity tools make it particularly useful if you are working with the powerful Oracle ADF. Continue Reading
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News
21 Apr 2011
National Archives scoops Queen’s Award for Enterprise
The National Archives has been awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise - the first public sector body to receive the gong in more than ten years. Continue Reading
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News
13 Apr 2011
Microsoft launches UK mapping service to rival Google Streetview
Starting in London, Microsoft has begun taking photographs of the UK for its street-level mapping service, Streetside. Continue Reading
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News
08 Apr 2011
Facebook has launched a project to ‘open source’ its datacentre
In the spirit of open source software, Facebook says it wants to share the innovations in one of its datacentres with the rest of the industry in its Continue Reading
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News
09 Mar 2011
IT fails to curb anti-social behaviour
Information technology failures are a key reason why efforts to stamp out anti-social behaviour have failed for at least a decade.... Continue Reading
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News
21 Jan 2011
Organ donors preferences recorded inaccurately
The preferences of 444,031 organ donors were recorded wrongly on the Organ Donation Register (ODR) because of a software problem. Continue Reading
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News
05 Jan 2011
BCS CEO David Clarke talks about the future of the IT industry
David Clarke, CEO of the chartered institute of computing the BCS, talks to Computer Weekly about being awarded an MBE, the future of the IT profession and tackling a membership revolt against his leadership last year. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
22 Sep 2009
Photos: Data visualisation – the case for graphic clarity
As new ways of analysing the world around us are developed, new ways to visualise that information are needed. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
09 Jul 2009
Photos: Top twelve enterprising iPhone apps for business
Apple’s iTunes App Store is one year old this week, but what are the hot applications for business users? Computer Weekly picks an application for every month of the online store’s life. Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Sep 2008
The CERN laboratory and the Big Bang theory – Essential Guide
We answer 10 frequently asked questions about the CERN laboratory and Big Bang theory Continue Reading
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Feature
06 Nov 2007
How data deduplication works
Chapter one of our data deduplication handbook takes you under the hood to show how data deduplication works so you can maximise the efficiency of this data reduction technology. Continue Reading
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News
30 Aug 2007
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. Continue Reading
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Feature
03 Jul 2007
Data migration product specifications
Part of the Tiered Storage Buying guide focusing on product specifications for data migration tools. Continue Reading
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News
26 Mar 2007
What are some of the biggest challenges with unstructured data?
By far, the volume of data has to be the biggest challenge... Continue Reading
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Podcast
31 Oct 2006
Podcast: The state of Oracle security
In this edition of Security Wire Weekly, Oracle DBA Jon Emmons gives his observations about Oracle's new critical patch update format. Continue Reading
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News
16 Oct 2006
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. Continue Reading
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News
14 Sep 2006
Three ways to create clustered storage, page 3
Clustered storage systems run on storage servers, NAS gateways and hosts. Here's how to determine which clustered file-system architecture is best for your needs and storage environment. Continue Reading
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News
24 Aug 2006
How do I establish recovery priority for my applications?
If it's at the IT level, it comes from a data perspective. When you start moving up a little bit into the business side, people start looking at the applications because they don't really know where the data is. If we talk today about virtualization, you lose where that data is, so you're looking at the application, but it's really essentially the same idea. Continue Reading
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News
01 Aug 2006
Litchfield: Database security is 'IT's biggest problem'
At Black Hat USA 2006, database security guru David Litchfield unveils 20-plus IBM Informix flaws that attackers could exploit to create malicious files, gain DBA-level privileges and access sensitive data. Continue Reading
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News
28 Jul 2004
Automated SQL injection: What your enterprise needs to know
The second of a two-part interview with SPI Dynamics CTO Caleb Sima tells what you should fear, why and what you can do to mitigate your risk. Continue Reading
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News
09 Jul 2004
Old Mutual rolls out web reporting software to meet new regulations
Financial services group Old Mutual has rolled out web-based reporting software across its business worldwide to consolidate data... Continue Reading
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News
27 Oct 2003
Council migrates to web enabled benefits system
Liverpool City Council has completed a six-week data migration project to get its £5m housing benefit and council tax system up... Continue Reading