Database administration includes responsibility for ensuring the ongoing operational functionality and efficiency of an organization’s databases and the applications that access those databases.

Database administrator has been a long-standing and highly in-demand job. But technology, as it has with desktop, server and storage administrators, continues to march on and change the role of ...

The cloud has gotten pretty complicated—and crowded. There are more new “as a service” offerings popping up lately than reality TV shows. Yet, one of those offerings in particular has a great shot at ...

As cloud computing matures there’s no doubt that much more emphasis will be placed on the elasticity of the data deployed across global networks of cloud computing platforms. Today, what we have are ...

Salesforce.com has unveiled plans to expand its cloud offerings to the enterprise database, offering a basic service free of charge. Database.com has always been deployed in Salesforce.com's back-end ...

Oracle (ORCL) is now offering Oracle Database@Google Cloud to customers in Canada. With the debut of the powerful multicloud service in Canada, ...

IDC predicts that big data is growing at an annual rate of 60% for structured and unstructured data. Businesses need to do something with all that data, and traditionally databases have been the ...

The fundamental principle of cloud systems is a focus on multiple, disposable, and replaceable machines. This has direct consequences for the implementation techniques, and therefore the capabilities ...

As businesses deal with more and more data, providers are making it easier to manage that data in the public cloud Big data is becoming a big deal and cloud providers want to be the place where ...