Ingres renames to reflect new focus on apps

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.
 

Ingres and Yellowfin team for rapid reporting

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 VectorWise crushes TPC-H benchmark

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 IQ sets TPC-H record

Sybase has set a new record for the TPC-H benchmark at the 1TB scale factor.
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Cloud database comes at a price; free

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.
 

Dataweave upgrade, outsource support contract

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.
 

Google’s death-ray Groggle goggles: drinkle up!

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 stuffs Christmas stockings with software

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

Software AG helps shrink Adabas databases

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

Greenplum brings enterprise cloud approach to data warehouses

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