It would seem that the adoption of cloud databases – those delivered via a cloud consumption model – is ramping up. According to Gartner, the transition of DBMS software purchasing – moving ...

Companies going for a mix-and-match approach to migrating databases to the cloud are meeting interoperability problems. Early evaluation is necessary for successful integration.

And, if those aren't enough to make you consider OCI for your public cloud, what about the new Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure that Larry Ellison and Satya Nadella announced at ...

To avoid any nasty surprises in the cloud, it's best to schedule a test for the most commonly used database features. Reliable documentation facilitates the switch to the cloud On the whole, the step ...

A database cloud service, or database as a service (DBaaS), makes database capabilities available online, when and where those capabilities are needed. The user can access a slice of a database (a ...

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 ...

“Every cloud vendor can say they encrypt all of your data,” Lumpkin said. “What they are saying is we are securing your database, your database infrastructure.

In their latest Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems, Gartner analysts Henry Cook, Merv Adrian, Rick Greenwald, and Xingyu Gu sliced and diced the market for cloud database offerings, ...

Legacy database vendors are being swallowed by the developer-friendly combo of cloud and open source offered by new players.