Buying, installing, and provisioning computers takes time, money, and space. The solution is to rent what you need: database-as-a-service.

These days, databases are the beating heart of most business apps, but most organizations are buying them as cloud services rather than cumbersome, in-house, server-side apps. We test and compare ...

What Is Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)? When we talk about databases being consumed as cloud services, we're talking about Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS). While this isn't a silver bullet that will ...

Database as a Service (DBaaS) is arguably the next big thing in IT. Indeed, the market analysis firm 451 Research projects an astounding 86% cumulative annual growth rate, with annual revenues ...

Senior Analyst, Servers, Matt Kimball dives in as he will unpack this data-as-a-service and show what companies like Nutanix are doing to compete in this DBaaS space.

The OpenStack Icehouse release includes Trove for supporting Database as a Service. Tesora is stepping forward with its database virtualization engine to make deploying database applications easy.

Xeround offers a free subscription to a MySQL-based database as a service limited offering. Will this move popularize database as a service offerings? The simple answer is yes.

A new era of database management has begun. As with so many other services, databases have now been imbued with “as a service” goodness through various database-as-a-service (DBaaS ...

At VMworld 2011 VMware announces vFabric Data Director, a new Database as a Service (DAAS) solution for the enterprise.