Cloud databases, also known as Database as a Service (DBaaS), offer a range of benefits for developers, particularly in terms of ease of use, deployment options, disaster recovery, and scalability.

Five years ago, I spoke often about the drawbacks and challenges of cloud databases. Back then, the price-to-performance ratio was poor relative to the physical hardware in most companies’ server ...

Let’s talk about Oracle’s successful and expanding investment in cloud infrastructure. The company just celebrated its 45th anniversary, beat Wall Street’s estimated revenue in its fiscal fourth ...

Cloud computing services recently revolutionized the world. The rise of cloud systems, powered by Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, persuaded many companies, both large ...

Savvis, a CenturyLink company, launched Savvis Symphony Database, a cloud-based database platform, at Oracle OpenWorld. Symphony Database provisions everything needed for a complete, secure database ...

Cloud computing provides numerous advantages and disadvantages. The potential for scalability is chief among cloud advantages. However, cloud reliability -- especially amid issues such as cloud ...

As enterprises continue to embark on their digital transformation journeys part of this change may involve migrating in-house applications, databases and data to the cloud. But while all the benefits ...

The fundamental principle of cloud systems is a focus on multiple, disposable, and replaceable machines. This has direct consequences for the implementation techniques, and therefore the capabilities ...

Transactional cloud databases come in all shapes and sizes, from simple key-value stores to planet-scale distributed relational databases. Here’s how to choose the right cloud database for your ...

The cloud rules databases, but on-premises persists, says Gartner Your email has been sent The database market keeps growing thanks to the cloud. But as Gartner analyst Merv Adrian has detailed, there ...

In today’s enterprise, your data is your lifeblood. Everything you do and every decision you make is about how to create, utilise and protect your data. IT resilience, data protection and backups all ...