Imagine for a moment there is a car on the market built with all of the desired features, faster than anything else on four wheels, and less expensive than other makes and models. It sounds too good to be true, but that is exactly how Oracle Corp. is positioning a database offering introduced late last ...

The third-party cookie is crumbling, and it’s not clear what will replace the web browsing technology. The third-party cookie, user information saved on a web browser when visiting a website, is undergoing a significant transformation. Escalating privacy concerns and a major change in data collection by Google LLC’s widely used Chrome web browser are threatening ...

When a single work of digital art, which will never hang on a physical wall, sells for $69 million at a Christie’s auction in March, or a picture of a routine column from a tech writer for the New York Times, which could be read online for free, is bought for an astounding $560,000, some perspective ...

IBM’s recent acquisition of Turbonomic Inc. was testimony that today’s multicloud and hybrid IT environments demand AI-driven application management tools to manage these increasingly complex infrastructures. But there is another dimension to this story: IBM is moving boldly into the container-native storage lane, and the Turbonomic purchase will help navigate. In the continued evolution of ...

When the Swedish telecom giant Ericsson AB announced in March that it was withdrawing from Mobile World Congress Barcelona, the news was swiftly followed by similar decisions from Nokia Corp., Sony Corp. and Oracle Corp. It appeared that MWC, the first major technology gathering to return in 2021 as a live event, would have a ...

The onslaught of ransomware attacks has continued unabated, with a sevenfold increase in ransomware activity in the second half of 2020 over the first half of the year, according to the latest report from FortiGuard Labs. Perhaps even more troubling is that cybercriminals have turned ransomware into a booming business, complete with help desk support ...

When Oracle Corp. acquired Sun Microsystems for $7.5 billion in 2009, there was some concern expressed in the tech community that the company would view Sun’s open-source database – MySQL – as a troublesome competitor, destined for oblivion. Instead, Oracle has taken the MySQL car into the garage, added a new engine, fine-tuned the steering, ...

The use of cloud applications has grown to a point where few, if any, businesses can operate without them. Apps enable people to connect, create, save money and time, and generally power key engines of the global economy. A growing problem, however, is that cloud application optimization has moved beyond human scale. The size of ...

Oracle Corp. is strengthening its offerings for monitoring and management automation in the hybrid cloud. The company announced the newest release of Oracle Enterprise Manager in late April. The latest version – 13c, Release 5 – is designed to create a unified management center for businesses seeking one set of tools for running IT operations ...

With a net worth of $50 billion, according to Bloomberg, Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Technologies Inc., should by all rights be the richest person in Austin, Texas. He’s not even close. That distinction belongs to recent Texas transplant Elon Musk, the chief executive of SpaceX Inc. and Tesla Inc., whose ...