Protecting the data in our enterprise databases is extremely important. But what exactly does that mean? Oh, at one level we have the database authorization and roles built directly into the DBMS ...

With data storage predicted to increase by 240% by 2025, a new study has found that database administrators (DBAs) are growing their teams to enable them to manage larger database server estates.

Anyone who is deeply enmeshed in a technology feels compelled to defend that technology when any sort of “threat” (or perception of threat) appears on the horizon, and apparently Gavin is no different ...

Enterprise data is more complex, diverse and vital than ever. The only problem? The way we store and manage data has remained, by and large, the same. The prevailing data management strategy is to ...

Why does Google need another database, and why in particular does it need to introduce a version of PostgreSQL highly tuned for Google’s datacenter-scale disaggregated compute and storage? It is a ...

The field of database administration is far from glamorous. Even within the uncompromisingly geeky domain of information technology, database administration would be among the last fields picked for a ...

Not that long ago, "database security" was almost an oxymoron, but today, demanding auditors and the drumbeat of customer information breaches are forcing corporations to pay serious attention to who ...

Hoping to increase speed and agility, most people want to decouple databases and infrastructure in their cloud computing solutions. That's a bad idea. Most development and deployment teams now work ...

Continued financial challenges and increased competition call for the U.S. Postal Service to manage its 34,000 facilities as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible. GAO and others have ...