Days after Oracle missed Q1 2023 revenue expectations and gave a downbeat rest-of-year outlook, sending its share price to suffer the worst one-day performance in 21 years, the cloud provider ...

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The United States Postal Service lost the digital version of an entire database that records and monitors security incidents due to a failure of the hard drive that stored both the database and its ...

Version 5 of AEP will enable users to process higher volumes of market data "much faster" than before, says Quod chief executive Ali Pichvai. To take advantage of this increased speed and throughput, ...

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product--a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid. The Exadata ...

IT is moving toward the cloud and virtualization, but don't write off hardware -- especially for highly critical systems. Here's a look at the newest generation of database hardware and how it impacts ...

The Canadian province of Alberta has confirmed plans to introduce a 2% levy on computer hardware used in large data centers.

Oracle Database is the world’s most popular enterprise database, and this year’s addition of autonomous operating capabilities to the cloud version of Oracle Database is one of the most important ...

Data loss is bad enough, but having that data fall into someone else's hands -- especially if they happen to be the wrong hands -- can be disastrous. While in an ideal we shouldn't be losing data in ...