Database vendor Ingres is renaming itself Actian. While its DBMS activity continues, the company is looking to a new market for apps driven by massive databases.

Database vendor Ingres and business intelligence specialist Yellowfin have teamed up for joint sales of VectorWise and Yellowfin as a complete, fast and easy to use enterprise reporting and analytics system.

Ingres has set a new record on a Transaction Processing Performance Council benchmark, achieving a massive improvement on the previous record on the same hardware.

Sybase has set a new record for the TPC-H benchmark at the 1TB scale factor.

Salesforce.com – one of the pioneers of the cloud computing movement – has unveiled an enterprise database designed to operate in the cloud which can be used for free for up to three users and 100,000 records.

IT consultancy, Dataweave, has successfully completed a major upgrade of key database and enterprise application software for Australian private hospital network, Healthe Care, and secured a contract to provide ongoing outsourced administration and support for Healthe Care’s databases, and other Oracle business applications.

One of the weirdest Google stories of the year is it success in garrotting and guillotining Groggle’s business name, one which somewhat sounds like Google while playing on the very well-known term “grog”, a synonym for alcohol.

FileMaker may have the answer to one piece of your Christmas shopping puzzle.

A new tool from Software AG allows the size of Adabas databases to be reduced by archiving infrequently used data.

A database vendor is using self-service provisioning and social network style features to accelerate analytics and business intelligence deployment and use.