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Microsoft is releasing SQL Server 2008 to manufacturing after several delays. Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 will help Microsoft compete with Oracle and its 11g database, and IBM and its DB2 9.5 database. SQL Server 2008 will be generally available within two weeks.
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The U.S. Attorney in Boston and Secret Service charge 11 with identity theft of millions of credit and debit cards from the TJX database breach. More than 40 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen when hackers breached the network of TJX and stole customer data from retailers BJ's Wholesale Club, OfficeMax, Boston Market, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority, Forever 21 and DSW.
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Officials at Sun say the MySQL 5.1 open-source database will be generally available in the coming weeks. Sun had said MySQL 5.1 would be available earlier in 2008, but had to delay the release to allow developers to fix bugs.
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Enterprise data storage has almost become a science unto itself, with the days of simple backup long gone. Now in regular use are so-called "tiers" of storage, as the data is judged by various business criteria as to its timeliness and general importance. High-value data used on a daily or regular basis is housed on fast primary disks, or "online," storage; data that may be accessed on occasion goes on slower, cheaper disks for "nearline" storage; and old or rarely accessed files go into storage tape, or the "offline" tier. By splitting the tiers in this fashion, enterprises can save greatly on power draw, cost and impact on the environment.
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A Gartner study shows that blade servers continue to be the fastest growing segment of the server market, which helps HP and IBM. However, proprietary blade architecture and the difficulty of developing I/O standards will continue to cause concerns for IT managers.
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Symantec CEO John Thompson said the company has no plans to get in the encryption business. Symantec will continue its OEM relationship with data encryption vendor GuardianEdge, even as security rivals McAfee and Sophos make acquisitions to bring endpoint encryption inhouse.
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Symantec CEO John Thompson said the poor economy may be helping Symantec as business customers consolidate security and storage vendors. Symantec, the IT security and data storage software giant, reported higher quarterly profit and beat Wall Street expectations as it announced it is signing more large customers. Symantec said it may beat analysts' profit forecasts for the current quarter, which ends Oct. 3.
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An analyst report on the data center configuration product reflects sample customer savings of more than $1 million over 36 months due to improved planning and processes. But watch out: The upfront investment in a configuration management database can be steep.
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A video interview with a rape victim hadn't been recorded on a DVD correctly. But Seagate technicians were able to reconstruct the digital file in time for the trial judge to review it. As a result, a 40-year-old Santa Cruz County man is facing the prospect of a long prison sentence.
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IBM is preparing to offer its BladeCenter blade system as part of Rackable's ICE Cube modular data center, which some believe has the potential to be part of an IT infrastructure for high-performance computing and Web 2.0.
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Microsoft's plans to purchase DATAllegro could touch off similar buyouts by rivals such as Oracle and Hewlett-Packard as vendors look to expand their data management capabilities. The DATAllegro buyout is an effort to strengthen Microsoft's position in the data warehousing market.
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Sybase remains bullish on its database business after posting a 38 percent year-over-year increase in database license revenue, eclipsing estimated gains by Oracle, IBM and Microsoft in the relational database market.
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The Oracle identity and access management bundle is a shot at securing Web-based cloud environments better than Oracle rivals Sun, CA, IBM and Novell.
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SAP says it will shut down the remaining TomorrowNow application support services by Oct. 31. Current TomorrowNow customers will transition to other third-party support services or to Oracle.
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Open-source databases MySQL and PostgreSQL are gaining steam, but rip-and-replace situations where MySQL and PostgreSQL replace Oracle Database, IBM DB2 or Microsoft SQL Server databases remain rare.
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