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Defining 'big data' depends on who's doing the defining

(Brandon Butler) — Thu, 10 May 2012 10:41:00 GMT

Big data is an IT buzzword nowadays, but what does it really mean? When does data become big?

Salesforce.com's Heroku rolls out new cloud database options

(Chris Kanaracus) — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:36:00 GMT

Salesforce.com's Heroku division this week rolled out two entry-level tiers for its Postgres-based cloud database service, hoping to cater to applications with lower data-volume requirements as well as helping startup developers make an easier jump into production.

Whiptail whips up modularly scalable all-flash storage array

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:47:00 GMT

Solid-state storage array maker Whiptail announced its first modular, scalable all-flash array with up to 72TB of capacity.

Investors are pouring funds into big data

jvijayan@computerworld.com (Jaikumar Vijayan) — Fri, 04 May 2012 10:05:00 GMT

Surging enterprise demand for big data tools that can manipulate and analyze massive volumes of structured and unstructured data has caught investor attention in a big way.

SAP's Sikka fires back against Oracle's 'falsehoods' about HANA

(Chris Kanaracus) — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:31:00 GMT

SAP's technology chief has given a strong rebuttal to a recent presentation by an Oracle executive that was critical of SAP's HANA in-memory database, saying it is full of "falsehoods."

Master MySQL in the Amazon cloud

(Sean Hull) — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:15:00 GMT

Amazon Web Services offer new challenges and flexibility for database admins -- here's how to avoid the pitfalls and tune for performance

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