ilamont/databases

From the page: "The financial regulatory standard Basel II came into effect last November, leaving the banks wheezing in the wake of a massive two-year effort to get their data in order. Such an undertaking was opportunity to consolidate and optimize their data stores, but, say analysts, most banks are not capitalizing on this opportunity--or the resulting customer service benefits.

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From the page: "The PostgreSQL open source project has announced the release of version 8.3 of its flagship database management system, which includes a number of performance and feature enhancements.

With more than 280 patches by dozens of PostgreSQL contributors from 18 countries, the 8.3 release includes a record number of new and improved features which will [[ArtId:1461173060|greatly enhance PostgreSQL]], according to the project."

From the page: "As organizations undertake efforts to improve their disaster recovery capabilities a variety of issues inevitably arise, but there is one fundamental question that often doesn't receive sufficient attention up front: Who owns it? By default, DR ownership usually resides within IT, but effective DR preparation is actually the result of a series of carefully coordinated, cross-function responsibilities that mostly fall outside of IT's purview."

From the page: "Users of technology from both companies today expressed concern about Oracle Corp.'s $8.5 billion agreement to buy BEA Systems Inc. and to fold in the latter's middleware to the Oracle software stack."

From the page: "Amazon is probably the biggest name in the emerging online storage market, but new competition is coming from a startup named Nirvanix Inc. that built a storage service to accommodate vast increases in digital media content fueled by the growing popularity of Web 2.0 applications.

Nirvanix was founded one year ago and made its Storage Delivery Service generally available in October."

From the page: "ETAI Group publishes parts catalogs and service manuals for about 85% of the automobiles built in Europe over the past 15 years. But with 50,000 car models and a million parts to keep track of in nine massive databases, its homegrown data-integration system wasnâ€t running on all cylinders anymore.

The databases, which include information about different types of parts, are written in various programming languages and have dissimilar data fields. Updating and integrating the data stored in them required 15 steps and took two to three weeks, said Philippe Bobo, director of software and information systems at ETAI, which is based outside of Paris.
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From the page: "Google Inc. yesterday said it would consider tweaking a new sharing feature of its Reader service, the only concession thus far to a users' revolt that's been building on blogs and message forums for nearly two weeks."

From the page: "Amazon.com Inc. will soon begin a limited-release test of an upcoming Web-based database that will work closely with its S3 online storage service and EC2 online application hosting service.

The database, called SimpleDB, is aimed at application developers looking for a less expensive, easier-to-use alternative to a full relational database, primarily for running real-time queries against structured data."