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Oracle buying Tekelec for network signaling software
Oracle is filling out its product stack for communications with the acquisition of Tekelec, which provides network signaling, policy control and subscriber data management software for mobile data networks. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the first half of this year, were not disclosed.
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Apache to make Hadoop more user friendly in version 0.23
The forthcoming Hadoop release, likely to be dubbed version 0.23, will also get improvements in availability, performance and scalability.
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SAP prepared to launch Business Objects Edge and Crystal Server updates
SAP will soon roll out Crystal Server 2011 and Business Objects Edge 4.0, a pair of new business intelligence products aimed at small and medium-sized companies.
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EMC adds purpose built Hadoop appliance to range
Among a flurry of announcements today at its annual user conference, EMC announced it will be distributing it's a free version of Apachee Hadoop and a licensed version for enterprises as well as a pre-configured appliance for big data analytics tasks.
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Embarcadero overhauls ER/Studio XE
Embarcadero has enhanced its data management software, promising better user interfaces
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IBM woes Oracle users with DB2 upgrade
IBM is strengthening its efforts to woe users of rival databases, after it upgraded its flagship DB2 database, with the ability to run applications written for other databases, especially Oracle's.
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Californian uni offers open source-tool storage management tool
The supercomputing group from the University of California at San Diego has upgraded its data management software and has made it available as an open source offering for handling petabytes of data.
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Dell and MS join forces on over-priced BI box
Dell and Microsoft have teamed up to produce servers preconfigured with the SQL Server database as a budget offering in the data warehouse appliance market.
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IBM reveals data masking service
Just a few weeks after it announced plans to buy data management specialist Princeton Softech, IBM has introduced a service to mask sensitive customer data so it can safely be used for application testing and QA.
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Microsoft buys firm to boost Office
Microsoft has acquired a small data management software company and said it will use the technology to enhance the SQL Server database, Office and other software.
