The Navy announced Monday it had upgraded the Navy Lessons Information System, a searchable database of information to help fleet readiness. The NLLIS updates will make the database — which has more ...

The role of the data analyst has evolved. At one point the data analyst’s job was pretty straightforward: Give the business data. From there, data analysts were told to present the findings in a ...

Oracle Autonomous Database has been available since last March, letting early adopters get their hands on it. At a time when data is increasingly seen as a company’s most important asset, the ...

What could be worse than a major data breach involving millions of records that occurs at a well-known global company affecting millions of personal records? Answer: a cover-up of the entire incident.

Have we come full circle in database technologies? At this year’s San Jose Strata conference, Doug Turnbull (@softwaredoug) provided a recap of the last 30 to 40 years of database history, and posed ...

Much of the earliest Big Data activity was in Silicon Valley firms with online products and services—Google Inc eBay Inc. Yahoo Inc. Facebook Inc., LinkedIn Inc., and the other usual suspects—and ...

After the Sidekick near-disaster, mobile phone users might be wondering if they should ever trust any cloud services to protect their vital data. On the face of it, there are some obvious lessons to ...