Oracle Corp. is updating its powerful Exadata database server appliance that’s used by companies to run its Autonomous Database and cloud applications. The Oracle Exadata Database Machine X8, made ...

Today’s relational database management systems (RDBMSs) can deliver great power in handling complex data workloads but can also be expensive and difficult to configure and install, as well as to ...

Oracle has postponed the end of support date for its popular 19c database as users await news of a mainstream on-prem version ...

Extended support for Oracle Database 19c will last until 2032, with caveats. Still no news of an on-prem edition of Oracle Database 23ai. As the status of an on-premises version of Oracle Database ...

Learn how to prepare the ZFS storage appliance for the use of Oracle 19c RAC with ASM. ZFS appliance originally is a storage appliance from Oracle and falls under the family of Engineered Systems, but ...

The death of SQL has been greatly exaggerated. With all apologies to Mark Twain, the demise of Structured Query Language (SQL), having been forecasted for a while, is far from a done deal. In fact, ...

Dell is moving beyond the commodity server business that has made it a staple in data centers worldwide with the introduction of new workload-specific servers, including a server integrated with the ...

The CRN Test Center this month took a close look at the ZFS Storage Appliance 7420, Oracle's latest low-cost, flash-optimized storage hardware for high-performance transactional systems. In the ZFS, ...

Sun Chairman Scott McNealy (left) with Oracle chief Larry Ellison. With the move- valued at $7.4 billion including Sun's debt - Oracle also becomes a full-fledged hardware player. Oracle has been ...